Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers & international voices.

Issue XXXVI — Summer 2026

Poetry

Alonso Llerena
Jenny Molberg
Victoria Jean Reynolds
Rebecca Suzuki
- Fragile Fruit
Chiagoziem Jideofor
- cinema of evanescence
- self-portrait as ars poetica
Luisa Muradyan
- Headlights
- The Ministry of Loneliness
Ryan Collins
Rosebud Ben-Oni
- On the Nature of Threads
Prosper Ifeanyi
- Ombré
- Shoes
- Mirage
Kelli Russell Agodon

Fiction

Victoria J. Sun
- Hawthorn
Claudia Monpere
- The Summers of Deep-Fried Fair Boys
Anaya Marei
- Shu tt/dd er
Brett Glasscock
- A Cold Duck in Deep Winter
Emily Goh Yi En
- Them
C.Schneider
- The Gulch
Kara Dorris
Dawn Tasaka Steffler
- Swifties
Lena Crown
- Idling Submissions
Nardine Taleb
- Lice
Hannah Wederquist-Keller
- Acequia Madre

Nonfiction

Bethany Bruno
- The Water Remembers What We Forget
Victoria Punch
- the octopus is never plural
Piper June
- Big Girls Don’t Cry, Man
Kevin McLellan
- …Concerning Dreams, Enjambment, FaceTime, Garbanzos, Hulu, &
MaxieJane Frazier
- Transatlantic Cables

Reviews