It’s hard to find a place if you don’t fit into those categories. Part of this is that small press publishing is generally unpaid or underpaid. To ask an already marginalized person to take on that type of unpaid labor is difficult, and it creates this cycle.
Dear Mom and Dad, Esta carta que te escribe es un grito de ayuda, un grito que me ames en el nombre de Dios. (This letter that I am…
“You’re a mother now,” the anesthesiologist with the long blonde hair says as I’m wheeled to recovery. Mother. I am a Mother now? Five days before I am a mother,…
“EVERYDAY” ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ is a Translation and Interpretation student at the Autonomous University of Baja California. His work has appeared in ENTROPY, Impossible Archetype, Boston Accent, and several other…
My girlfriend and I were walking back to my place from Target, whose red, illuminated sign had become my new moon, when I saw the Dumpster sitting behind the Cineplex…
Image Credit: Daiga Ellaby Before we met in person, we talked on the telephone, matching alto timbres warm in our ears. This was decades before you could spit in a…
Don’t you think people are formed by the landscape they grow up in? It formed everything I ever think, or ever do, or am. —Joan Didion Josiah’s Bay is…
WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
There was music when the cage door closed behind me. That I could hear it surprised me. Hear it over the thumping bass line of my walkout track. Over the…
This is partly about a very American, fictional small town called Capeside, from the TV show Dawson’s Creek, partly about my home borough of Brent, and partly about how our surroundings…
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London rises from the ground 750 feet from the original site of the theater, the one built by the Chamberlain’s Men. Its white timbered exterior glows…
This isn’t happening. I quickly folded up the letter I was handed minutes ago by my best friend on the number 5 bus on our way to school. Tel Aviv,…
Editor’s note: This column is part of a new series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can find the original Call for Submissions here. Art…
Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything, ed. by Andrew Durbin Chapbooks by Amy De’Ath, Cecilia Corrigan, Jackie Wang, Dodie Bellamy, and Lynne Tillman Capricious, 2016 288 pages – Capricious…