The Columbia Journal is now open for submissions to our annual Spring Contest in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Call for Submissions: Black History Month Special Issue
At the Columbia Journal, we believe in creating space for and celebrating traditionally underrepresented voices. While we pursue this aim year round, this February marks...
The Most Anticipated Fiction of 2020
The Fiction Editors of the Journal have put together a list of their most anticipated releases in fiction for 2020.
Portrait of a Photographer as a Young Skeleton
"His photography was showcased in New York City, Paris, Mexico City, and, of course, Hell."
Sledding
It seemed like all of Ahwatukee was playing in the streets. We saw the Hovik boys outside shooting basketball. Grace and Clare were building a...
Review of Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
This book offers a look at the nuance of experience and is heartbreakingly truthful, violent and at times truly tender.
Two Poems by Kate Angus
"The ocean is all the years we won’t meet again"
The Watchers And The Watched
Nobody in the stairwells. Nobody on the street. Nobody in the alleyway. Nobody beside Mister Maharashi. They both decide again that they must just be...
Review: Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
In between introducing terms like “feminist fuckboy” and “Golden Dick Syndrome,” the book also tells stories of boys that are largely neglected in society’s sex...
Three poems by Ágnes Kali translated from the Hungarian
What are you most ashamed of, what do you want to take too far?
Review: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
I see this book as a reclamation of what the judge and the defense attempted to shut down: your voice.
Review: Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun
As Ada Calhoun enters her forties, she suddenly finds herself staring at her son’s pet turtle, wondering if it wants something more from life.