If your favorite thing to do is write, then why aren’t you writing? Think about how many words you’ve written, how many classes you have taken, how many chapters you could have if you only had started earlier…This is your passion! How hard can it be to type words onto a page? Just start! This […]
Aaron H. Aceves (he/him) is a bisexual, Mexican-American writer born and raised in East L.A. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in jmww, Epiphany, and them., among other places. He currently lives in Texas, where he serves as an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin, and his debut […]
For a long time, I confined myself to one literary genre. I practiced poetry in a very concentrated, constricted manner that made me classify myself as such. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s powerful to know your strengths, to heighten your skills in a singular area as a means of becoming a master […]
Sophia Kriegel: And we’re back with the second entry in our Writers on Writers series! To refresh: I’m Sophia and I study Creative Writing at Emerson College where I focus mostly on creative nonfiction. Catherine Kenny: Hello everyone! I’m Catherine, and I study Creative Writing at New York University with a concentration in poetry and […]
Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American science fiction and fantasy writer based in New York City. An attorney by day, she also co-hosts Wow If True, a podcast about internet culture. Her stories have been included in the Locus Recommended Reading List, as well as TOR.com’s Must Read list. Her work has been published in […]
Add to Calendar CLOSED We invite writers to submit to the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize from August 1 to October 31, 2022. We’re looking for the best 5,000 words or less of your novel in progress! Have a favorite chapter? An exciting and noteworthy prologue? A section where the dialogue crackles and the characters […]
It is a quiet night, and I am on a magical adventure. You (and my mom) may not think so, as I just look like a little kid “hiding” under the covers, with the glow of a flashlight exposing my secret. I am in my room, but in my mind I am in a castle. […]
I credit a great amount of my inspiration to pursue writing in a more serious manner to a TED Talk I watched in my junior year of high school. Olivia Gatwood, one of my favorite writers then and now, stands on the stage and presents “We find each other in the details”, a discussion about […]
13 Shortlisted Titles! Mr Grim Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark GRIN Bury and Take Root The Lost Coast Motel The Carny Incarcerated A Certain Rectitude Lodged in the Body Buffalo Jill The Violin Flotsam A Detective Story Ritual
Judge Agent CeCe Lyra has made her selections! Congrats to the winners! Thank you to all of the submitters throughout the contest! The shortlisted writers deserve a celebration as well as it’s not easy to make the shortlist! 1st Place: HOMILY by Amanda Baldeneaux: The premise is intriguing: murdered girls begin to unexplainably reappear. Right away, […]
If you are anything like me, your screen time is overshadowed with the incredible rabbithole that is Tiktok. Amongst the silly videos, trick shots, and music is what I deem to be the most sacred side of the app: Booktok. Booktok has grown to host your favorite authors, writers to look out for, and the […]
Sophia Kriegel: Hi!! I’m Sophia, I’m an intern at Voyage and a Creative Writing major at Emerson college. Catherine Kenny: And I’m Catherine (also an intern here at Voyage) and an English major at New York University! SK: I think I’ll start by saying, as I’ve gone through college and had to do more and […]