ABOUT US

Columbia Journal was founded in 1977 by students in the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing program. Since then, we’ve featured work from Nobel laureates and unknowns, National Book Award winners and newcomers. Our past issues have included everyone from Raymond Carver to Lorrie Moore, Kara Walker, Sharon Olds, Mary Karr, and Joyce Carol Oates. 

Today, Columbia Journal publishes in print and online, seeking to showcase the best poetry, nonfiction, fiction, translation and visual art on both platforms. The print edition, published each spring, is a combination of solicited work and the best of the submissions we’ve received—including the winners of our annual winter contest. Online, you’ll find reviews and interviews with writers and artists, as well as the same caliber of original, vibrantly creative work that the print edition is known for. 

We are delighted to share "The Other Janes" by Spring 2025 Nonfiction Contest Winner Cat Snyder. As 2025 Nonfiction Judge Youmna Chamieh describes, "The Other Janes" is "sharp-edged and darkly observant"—to read th
Our PRINT CONTEST is closing SOON—get your submissions in before November 7th. Winners in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction will receive a $500 prize. Works of translation are welcome.
Honored to announce our judges for the Print Contest in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry: Xuan Juliana Wang, Jamie Hood, and Victoria Chang. Cannot thank these esteemed writers enough. Submissions for the Print Contest open Monday (10/27)—winne
Announcing our 2025-26 PRINT Contest. Submissions open October 27th and close November 7th. Winners in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction will receive a $500 prize. Works of translation are welcome. Judges to be announced in our next post: stay tuned.
Submissions for POETRY & VISUAL ART are closing soon—October 15th. Save the date.
Submissions for Poetry & Visual Art open October 1st. Save the date. And we welcome poems in translation.
Submissions for Fiction & Nonfiction close TONIGHT at midnight. Link to submit in our bio.
Join us at Brooklyn Book Festival from 10am-6pm this Sunday—we'll have several editions of the Columbia Journal (and tote bags, too).
Submissions for Fiction & Nonfiction close on September 19th. Link in bio to submit.

MASTHEAD

Editor-in-Chief.………...Aimee Clemens

Managing Editor……………Shelby Kho

Print Editor………….…Emily Hollander

Online, Art Editor….Olubunmi Adelyoe

Print Fiction Editor………...Sofi Ippolito

Print Poetry Editor..Natasha Wolkwitz

Nonfiction Editor……...Katherine Hollis

Online Fiction Editor…..…Marlon Rajan

Online Poetry Editor……..Sabrina Siew

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Faculty Advisory Board………….....Binnie Kirshenbaum, Lynn Xu, Frank Winslow

CONTACT

Editorial staff can be reached at publisher.columbia@gmail.com.

A list of our past issues is here. You can find our full archives (1977-2015) on JSTOR.

Please do not send submissions by email.