Submissions for Muleskinner Journal Thirteen are OPEN!

Here we go, 2025!  How's your glass?

Our theme for Journal Thirteen is:

empty : FULL

Yup.

Here in the new world, we are boom and bust...fixed and broken…cycling endlessly…spiraling up or down.

We are rapped in the present moment…freed in the present moment…having and having not…watching our bank account…safeguarding our emotional stockpiles…consuming in the bipolar economy.

We are halfway home and managing the gas gauge. We are shielding our eyes from the stark contrast, and squinting at the subtle difference. We are Zigzagging toward the light.

We are empty becoming FULL and FULL becoming empty.

If enlightenment is the wave realizing it is the ocean, how do we account for the island of trash drifting in the Pacific?

We invite you to help us fill the emptiness of these thoughts by sending us your work, and by reading the work we post.

This fuel goes into this tank until March 15. 

See our submission guidelines for deadlines, manuscript requirements, and other information