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The award-winning literary/arts journal at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Diamond Forde Interview & Excerpt | Ninth Letter
Read Diamond Forde's interview about THE BOOK OF ALICE and her poem from Ninth Letter's series covering the latest innovative literature.
Read the “Performance” Web Edition
Explore Ninth Letter literary magazine's "Performance" web edition featuring bold writing exploring artifice and the spectacle of self.
Featured Writer #127: TJ Price - The Glorious
A horror story about AI, authorship, and identity, in which a writer confronts a creeping intelligence: THE GLORIOUS.
Now in Print: Volume 22, Issue 01
Change. Movement. Evolution. The poems, stories, and essays in Volume 22, Issue 01 of Ninth Letter are working, in unique ways, around these themes. It’s curious, how themes arise as we choose work. It isn’t until after all pieces have been selected that we really notice how they are in conversation. Or perhaps it isn’t [...]Read More... from Volume 22, Issue 01
A Review of Letters of the Alphabet Go To War
A review of Letters of the Alphabet Go to War (Sarabande, 2026) by Lesyk Panasiuk, an important bilingual poetry collection illustrating civilian life in Ukraine during wartime.
Featured #126: Brian Trapp - Range of Motion
Explore an excerpt from Range of Motion and an in-depth interview with Brian Trapp examining family, disability representation, and literary craft.
Feature #125: Maternal Mitochondria
Introduction Ninth Letter’s latest feature is Maternal Mitochondria, the mother-daughter duo of Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan. In image and word, together they present their latest collaboration, “Homeless Ranch/Threshold Anxiety,” set in the stark landscape of the American Southwest, a vast space of breathtaking vistas that can evoke the majestic and the eerie at the [...]Read More... from Feature #125: Maternal Mitochondria
New Web Edition: Reversal
In times of change, or reaction, it’s worth accounting for what can be reversed, or likely won’t be. So when we made our call for this Reversal issue, we wanted to be spun on our heads. And reformed, or rebutted, or recontextualized. Expecting all that, we never expected each instance of about-face, backtracking, transition, mirroring, [...]Read More... from Reversal
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