The Crocodile Married, and Then It Was Over - Adi Magazine Near where River Bhogdoloi flows, my family has a home. Last I was in contact, Aunt Cheema, too afraid to lead a solitary life, had married the crocodile

"Since the Great Reorder, it’s been kind of weird to talk to each other. We live alone, in compartmentalized tiny apartments...never allowed to make conversation."

New fiction, "The Crocodile Married, and Then It Was Over" by Mandira Pattnaik, is out today!

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Romance in the Time of Revolution - Adi Magazine There is no puppy love in the time of revolutionReplace candlelight with pyres and bangs Moist lips and whispers of sweet nothing filtered through pink

"They said there is eros in revolt / a collective effervescence of / entangled limbs"

Read Adi's latest poem, Shui-yin Sharon Yam's "Romance in the Time of Revolution" out today alongside art by Herikita!

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This essay, plus staff recs of great work from @latriagraham.bsky.social at @talkscratch.bsky.social, @eveewing.bsky.social and @adimagazine.bsky.social, @placesjournal.bsky.social, @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, and more. www.therevivallab.org/on-balloons-...

The Hungering Years: Summer Farah on Holding a Magnifying Glass to Everything - Adi Magazine Etel, if I had known you in life instead of art I know we would have found places to disagree, but one thing I am sure— we mourn together. We ask Summer Farah’s debut collection The Hungering Years (H...

🧡 The Hungering Years: Summer Farah on Holding a Magnifying Glass to Everything, interviewed by Laura Villareal for @adimagazine.bsky.social | @summ.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/the...

The Hungering Years: Summer Farah on Holding a Magnifying Glass to Everything - Adi Magazine Etel, if I had known you in life instead of art I know we would have found places to disagree, but one thing I am sure— we mourn together. We ask Summer Farah’s debut collection The Hungering Years (H...

new interview in @adimagazine.bsky.social about THE HUNGERING YEARS with laura villareal :) adimagazine.com/articles/the...

Confronting Structures of Censorship A virtual panel featuring Ruxandra Guidi, Kirsten Han, Rania Mamoun, and Jesús Jank Curbelo.

I'll be joining a panel organised by @adimagazine.bsky.social to talk about confronting censorship in May! More details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...

The Hungering Years: Summer Farah on Holding a Magnifying Glass to Everything - Adi Magazine Etel, if I had known you in life instead of art I know we would have found places to disagree, but one thing I am sure— we mourn together. We ask Summer Farah’s debut collection The Hungering Years (H...

"the repetitions in my life, as fostered by obsession, comes through in the repetition of my poems—"

Adi has a new interview by Laura Villareal with Summer Farah on Farah's new book THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications, 2026) out today!

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Again Book Club: Waiting for the Barbarians Join us for a conversation about WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by J. M. Coetzee, with Anna Badkhen and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

There's still time to sign up for Adi's next Again Book Club on J. M. Coetzee's WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, featuring Anna Badkhen in conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor!

Sign up for free below, and join us tomorrow, 4/7 at 1 PM ET!

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We are so thrilled that two contributors to Adi were named finalists for @sundresspub.bsky.social's 2026 Best of the Net anthology! Congratulations to Larissa Ribeiro and Jess Masi!

You can check out the entire anthology here: bestofthenetanthology.com

Window - Adi Magazine Overthrown pink flamingo. Prone on its side. Luckily, plastic. Not a feathered crisis, just forgotten.Clementine-sized purple soccer ball. Poised at the

"I walk the same route with one instruction: to notice, not judge."

It's National Poetry Month in the US, and we're happy to be sharing a new poem today by Sanjani Bijlani entitled "Window!"

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The Horizon Remains Out of Reach - Adi Magazine My father, Waddah, was a man of versatile talents. He was an avid reader, an eloquent writer, a skilled chef, and a gifted laboratory technician. We still

"The burial rituals that accompanied my father’s death have been systematically denied to the people of Gaza."

"The Horizon Remains Out of Reach" by Bayan Haddad is out today on the Adi website, with by art by Larissa Ribeiro.

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Lost and Found - Adi Magazine I. A red umbrella Its thin, battered nylon is as translucent as a membrane when Aurelia unfolds it over her head. One of her students must’ve forgotten

“The way Yasmin stares at her toes breaks something she thought had long since healed. She knows how it feels to be that trapped, how few people believe you when you speak up.”

@ruthjoffre.bsky.social in @adimagazine.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/los...

The Woman State - Adi Magazine It’s late in the age of man. Muscle hates the woman state.

“There are those who, predictably, hate the woman state.
Envy fevers the face. How they’re dying to taste the woman state.”

—Tracy K. Smith in “The Woman State,” a poem in @adimagazine.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth
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Again: Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Adi Magazine My relationship to social media has always been that of a lurker. Back when Twitter was still Twitter, I would often like posts, sometimes retweet, and

"What better sign is there that a book has penetrated your psyche than becoming an evangelist for its cause?"

The latest installment in Adi's new column is here! Read "Again: Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Adi's fiction editor, @laylamohamed.bsky.social.

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Just under a week left to submit to Adi's fiction open call! Submissions are free, and are open until March 31, 2026, so send your stories soon! We pay $500 per accepted short story.

Read the guidelines and send us your work here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

playing outlaw - Adi Magazine after silas denver melvin& it’s packing up limbsthey cracked open across the kitchen floorhoping to find something sick inside after they thought you they thought you would choke / on marble and wake ...

"& it’s calling home / the cracked-open, the strays, / and showing them again the way back"

New poem today by noori, accompanied by art by Candice Evers!

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Evidence - Adi Magazine That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking. Was making a proposal in fact.

Khaddafina Mbabazi’s story “Evidence” in @adimagazine.bsky.social begins, “That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking.”

From our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/evi...

Again Book Club: Waiting for the Barbarians Join us for a conversation about WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by J. M. Coetzee, with Anna Badkhen and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Have you signed up for the next Again Book Club? We'll be reading WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by J. M. Coetzee, featuring essayist Anna Badkhen in conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owour!

Free registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

No Free Labor for Authoritarians: Censorship and Dissent in Singapore  - Adi Magazine Two thoughts ran through my mind as I was escorted to the women’s toilets at the police station so the investigators could confiscate the T-shirt I was

"The reality on the ground is our political freedoms and civil liberties are dwindling, and our capacity for dissent and activism has been stifled."

New today: "No Free Labor for Authoritarians: Censorship and Dissent in Singapore" by Kirsten Han (@kirstenhan.com)

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Endless Apologies For The Badly Behaved - Adi Magazine Editor's Note: Due to formatting, this poem is best viewed on desktop apologies for the mouthapologies for the flowersapologies for the riverapologies for

"apologies for the start / that photoshops stillbirth to quiet death / apologies for the death / that comes to us as a generous villain"

New poetry by Nwuguru, Chidiebere Sullivan is live today on the Adi site!

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Lost and Found - Adi Magazine I. A red umbrella Its thin, battered nylon is as translucent as a membrane when Aurelia unfolds it over her head. One of her students must’ve forgotten

ICYMI while Bluesky was down yesterday: I have a new story in @adimagazine.bsky.social! check it out if you like: portals, magical libraries, love stories between mortals and immortals, and people who try to make the world a better place

Adi Magazine events alerts!

Tomorrow, 3/5, in Baltimore at #awp2026: our panel "Global Words in a Time of Crisis" w/ Guernica & @asterixjournal.bsky.social!

And looking ahead, our online Again Book Club with Anna Badkhen on WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is on 4/7: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

new story out today! it’s about a magical library, an immortal librarian, and a social worker who uses the library’s magic portals to help a victim of domestic violence escape a bad situation. thank you for reading! libraries rock!

Re-opening: Adi Magazine Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/adi-magazine-33704 #amwriting

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Lost and Found - Adi Magazine I. A red umbrella Its thin, battered nylon is as translucent as a membrane when Aurelia unfolds it over her head. One of her students must’ve forgotten

"In the dark, where no one can see what magic is at work, she slips behind a bookcase and through a portal to another world."

"Lost and Found," new fiction by Ruth Joffre (@ruthjoffre.bsky.social), is up today on the Adi site!

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Open call alert!! Adi is open for fiction submissions from 3/1 - 3/31!

Submissions are free, and we pay $500 per story.

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African Dodging through the Coal Mine Dressed as a Chemist - Adi Magazine

"The question is, how many daydreams do you get? / The question is, You ever heard your lungs crackle like foil before?"

New poetry by Justin A. Davis is live today on the Adi website, with art by Larissa Ribeiro!

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cento for all the things we said when they realized they should have believed us - Adi Magazine Editor's note: due to formatting, this poem is best viewed on a desktop. in most nyc public schools, k-12 students are not informed of their title ix

"i didn’t know him. i thought i knew him. i never knew him before. i never knew him like this."

New poem up today, "cento for all the things we said when they realized they should have believed us" by Deni Igusti, with art by Kaya Joan.

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Issue 16: Omens - The Recurring Dream of the Water Mothers - Adi Magazine My past, / is a testament beyond erasure, beyond myth / or narrative revisioned.-Airea Dee Matthews For the penultimate issue of our Omens volume, we

Peruse poetry by Airea Dee Matthews and photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn in @adimagazine.bsky.social!

Their ten-part series “weaves mythic portraiture and epic poetry to visit with the water spirits of the African diaspora and transmit their healing properties.” adimagazine.com/issues/16/