phoebe journal’s 50th anniversary

It’s exciting to say it—phoebe journal has been celebrating and publishing great literary and artistic work for 50 years now. Read 50.1 and stay tuned for 50.2, our contest issue, coming soon.

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Read our Spring 2021 Nonfiction Contest Winner, "Welcome to Bad Mom Club" by Marne Litfin, just in time for Mother's Day!

Bigger and Bigger Worlds Beyond ‘Little Fish’: An Interview with Aja Gabel

Melissa Wade So here at phoebe, every once and a while, we sell a back issue,...

April 27, 2021

playing with boxes: an interview with Irene Cooper about spare change

Millie Tullis Irene Cooper’s spare change (Finishing Line Press) is a...

April 22, 2021

Correlatives: A Review of W. Todd Kaneko’s This is How the Bone Sings

Christian Stanzione I was a natural reader for W. Todd Kaneko’s The Dead...

April 15, 2021

Incarcerated Writers Project

In Conversation with Kelli Taylor of The Free Minds Book Club

By Sarah Wilson Recently, I was able to speak with Kelli Taylor, co-founder of...

September 8, 2020

On Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail by David Coogan

Reviewed by Sarah Wilson In a time of rejuvenated discourse on racial...

August 13, 2020

The Incarcerated Writers Project was started by the editors at phoebe as a way to open the publishing platform to writers in prisons across the United States. This population has been traditionally overlooked, undervalued, and pushed to the margins. We believe the inclusion of their literary voices will enlarge and ultimately strengthen the artistic and scholarly community.