The Phoenix
The Phoenix literary journal is an annual print journal that craves memorable, evocative work.
Created in 1958 in the heart of Western North Carolina with a long tradition of publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, artwork, and photography.
Sponsored by both Pfeiffer University and the Piedmont Institute of Music, Communication, and Art, The Phoenix also holds a yearly Emerging Writers Contest.
The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre. Please see below for specific genre guidelines for details.
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Interested in getting your hands on the current issue of The Phoenix? Here's your chance!
Interested in getting your hands on the 61st issue of The Phoenix?
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Interested in getting your hands on the 61st issue of The Phoenix?
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Interested in getting your hands on the 60th edition of The Phoenix?
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IN THIS ISSUE | 59
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Andrew Chomiczewski Night Lights*
Juanita Kruse Mistress of All She Surveys
Gwendolyn Mintz At the Core
Anna Morgan Below the Clouds
Samantha Smith Seafoam
Warm Sunrise
Ava Sangster Buzzard
2017/2018 PICMA Winner
Ava Sangster Before the Darkness Can Push Me Away
Non-Fiction
William C. Crawford Foraging Smelter Town - Finding Super Fund Origins, Tom Rush and Death
Mark Walsh The Forest of Life
Margaret Earley Whitt Open Letter to the Class of 2018
Fiction
Edith Boyd Perils of Moving Day
Jacob Butlett Waltzing in Crimson Light
Alicia Roberts The Aftermath
Kareem Tayyar Days when the Rain Would Come
Matthew Twigg Horizons
Poetry
John Grey Beach Resort
Sam Hanlon Backwards Day
Lea Hilton Listen
Joel Johnson Better Halves
ChyAnn Ketchum Maybelline
Brandon Marlon Abstraction's Postscript
Jacob Michel Sleep
P.C. Schponik The Edge
Something Important
Kristen Slone Letter to My Least Favorite Body Part
Devon Williams Where I Am From
*This piece was also the cover art for Issue 59
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