We’re pleased to announce that Conjunctions online will relaunch on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. We will mark our return with the appearance of six previously unpublished Dream Songs by John Berryman. The poems, edited by one of our contributing editors, Shane McCrae, who provides an introductory note, affirm just how fresh, incisive, and contemporary Berryman’s voice remains today.
Look for new work by Richard Siken, Shira Dentz, Mary Kuryla, Isabella Appleton, Toby Olson, and others in the coming weeks. If you haven’t yet visited Conjunctions.com, we invite you to explore our beautifully redesigned site, where you can access our vast online archives along with issues of Conjunctions going back to the journal’s beginnings in 1981—all available with no paywall, as it’s been since we launched the site in the mid-1990s.
“Read Dangerously, Write Fearlessly” is our longtime mantra. We invite you to take that risk as a reader or writer or both. Our goal has always been to publish writing that’s innovative, unique, provocative and inspires our readers to reconsider the boundaries of contemporary fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and other forms. If you haven’t yet, please order our new issue, Conjunctions:84, We Love All We Voices. In it, you’ll find new work by Marlon James, Sandra Cisneros, Rick Moody, Tiphanie Yanique, Arthur Sze, a previously unpublished essay by William H. Gass, and more.
We are in the midst of moving our business office to Livingston Manor, New York (please note that our editorial office will remain in New York). Our move entailed inventorying and packing over 150 bankers boxes of back issues, business records, memorabilia, some issues of other favorite journals, and many other things, including two shelves of The Pushcart Prize volumes in which writings published over the years in Conjunctions have been awarded a Pushcart.
For anyone still awaiting copies that were ordered during this transition period or just prior, please know we will soon be set up to finish fulfilling every order and we apologize for our temporary slowness. At the same time, we’re happy to direct you to our new distributor, Asterism, who has copies in stock and ready to ship.
Look for our announcement that the Submittable window will open for Conjunctions:85, Anew, later this month. Submissions will also be considered for Conjunctions online. We can’t wait to read your best unpublished work!
Finally, inevitably, but of real and immediate importance to our continued survival, please consider making a donation to Conjunctions. Any amount—$100 to $10,000—will help us continue our work, and you will be thanked in our next issue. We needn’t remind you what a difficult environment all literary magazines and writers find themselves in given the current climate. Now more than ever we hope that you will make a fully tax-deductible donation as we start the next chapter of our story (you can donate here on the CLMP website by writing “Conjunctions” in the notes line). And thanks to the donors who got us this far. We hope you’ll consider building on your generous support.
