Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2024 Online Contest, which was judged by Jonas Eika, Jeanna Kadlec, Megan Fernandes, and Mónica de la Torre. We want to thank everyone who entered the contest for sharing their work with us, as well as our three wonderful judges, and express our congratulations to the winners and finalists.

Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2023 Print Contest, which was judged by Maya Binyam, Andrew Leland, Donna Masini, and Samuel Rutter. We want to thank everyone who entered the contest for sharing their work with us, as well as our four wonderful judges, and express our congratulations to the winners and finalists.

The Columbia Journal is delighted to announce that the 2024 Online Contest will accept submissions in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from February 21 through March 20, 2024.

The Columbia Journal is delighted to announce that the 2024 Online Contest will accept submissions in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from February 21 through March 6, 2024.

Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2023 Online Contest, which was judged by Jackie Ess, Haley Mlotek, and Natalie Shapero. We want to thank everyone who entered the contest for sharing their work with us, as well as our three wonderful judges, and express our congratulations to the winners and finalists.

Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2022 Print Contest, which was judged by Jonathan Escoffery, Qian Julie Wang, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Valzhyna Mort. […]

2022 Columbia Journal Print Contest – Submissions Open from December 15, 2022, to December 31, 2022 January 15, 2023 The Columbia Journal is delighted to announce that the 2022 Print […]

The Columbia Journal is delighted to announce that the 2021 Winter Contest is now officially open for submissions in art, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation. Our judges this year are Arthur Lewis (art), Danielle Evans (fiction), Pamela Sneed (nonfiction), Harmony Holiday (poetry), and Wangui Wa Goro (translation).

The first issue of the Columbia Journal was published in the fall of 1977 by the students of the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing Program. It was sixty-seven pages long and featured poetry and fiction, including works in translation, as well as an interview with poet Stanely Kunitz. “It’s a rather ambiguous period,” Kunitz said of the prevailing mood of the time. “One of disenchantment and cynicism, distrust of elders, distrust of the social order, but no flag to wave, and very little idealism.”

The editors at Columbia Journal are delighted to announce the new print issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Columbia Journal’s Issue 59 features work by Ada Limón, Tao Lin, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, K-Ming Chang, Yuji Agematsu, Joshua Wheeler and more.

As we face this fateful day, we are reminded of this poignant article from around this time four years ago. The U.S. elections can be time markers, moments for hope, failures in democracy, and to many around the world, a strange, emotional show. Whatever the outcome, stay safe and keep reading.

We’ve decided to extend the deadline for the 2019 Winter Contest to December 30. We hope this will allow some of you a little extra time to submit. Check out these new interviews with Ottessa Moshfegh, our fiction judge, and Ada Calhoun, our nonfiction judge!

Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2018 Winter Contest, which was judged by Jericho Brown, Lauren Wilkinson, and Alexander Chee. We want to thank everyone who entered the Contest for sharing their work with us, as well as our three wonderful judges, and express our congratulations to the winners and finalists.

While the publishing process contains many vital roles to insure readers discover great books, no other job is quite as immediate as that of a bookseller. The best booksellers are not only dream readers for writers, but they are also interested in developing relationships— to customers, of course, but first and foremost to books themselves. Booksellers put the strange, the exciting, and the revelatory into our hands. Below are the books that beloved indie booksellers from across New York City are looking forward to in 2019.

Submissions for the 2018 Winter Contest are now closed. Thank you to all who submitted. Winners will be notified and announced in the Spring of 2019.

Join us for an Evening with Columbia Journal at KGB Bar in New York City on October 30, 2018, starting at 7 pm! The reading will feature work from writers who help create the Journal and those who help to guide it, including:

Happy Banned Books Week! Since 1982, this annual event has celebrated books that have been banned from and challenged in schools, bookstores, and libraries. To honor the freedom to read and express ideas, the Columbia Journal staff has compiled a list our favorite banned books. Join the conversation by following the #BannedBooksWeek hashtag on Twitter.