TINT FICTION // Mark Budman is a refugee writing about immigration, aging, and chronic pain. His books include My Life at First Try (Counterpoint Press), An Accidental American Odyssey, and more. Read Mark's short story at tintjournal.com/short-story/....
Art: Audrey Holmes
Share your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash and poetry, written in ESL, as well as your artworks from April 20 to May 31, 2026 (midnight CEST) with us to be considered for Tint Journal's 16th issue on the theme of "nurture"! Please review tintjournal.com/submit for FULL guidelines.
AUTHOR Q&A // Depending on her mood, Somrwita Guha listens to the sound of rain, waves crashing, or a crackling fire. She puts on her earphones and starts writing, and over the past few years, this has been how she has written every word. Learn more about Somrwita at tintjournal.com/about/writer...
SURPRISE! One more week until Tint Journal starts accepting regular submissions for the next issue: Tint Fall '26 🍂 To see the types of work we publish, check out our current and past issues published at tintjournal.com. We're so excited to read your work ⭐ Who's already planning on submitting?
TINT POETRY // Malavika M Nair is a 21-year-old undergraduate hailing from a very wooded nook of the Western Ghats hills in the south of India. Read Malavika's poem "Alba" at tintjournal.com/poetry/alba.
Art: "Detour Moon" by Robin Young
TINT IN CONVERSATION // "If you’re willing to read beyond your own bubble, beyond comfort [...] then A Love Story From the End of the World will hit hard." - Jana Yin
Read Jana Yin's full book review of Juhea Kim's "A Love Story From the End of the World: Stories" at tintjournal.com/review/love-...
⭐ Tinted Tales: Reading across cultures | Thursday, May 28, 2026 | Graz, Austria 💜 We are looking for a singer-songwriter who would like to join us with a couple of songs at this edition of “Tinted Tales." Learn more at tintjournal.com/about/news/t....
It’s time for another edition of our hybrid reading series “Tinted Tales: reading across cultures.” On May 28, we invite a set of ESL authors who were previously published in our tinted digital pages to read and perform at our annual reading series. Learn more at tintjournal.com/about/news/t....
AUTHOR Q&A // Through Alice in Wonderland, the author of "Papanca" (Tint Spring '26) learned to see beyond the ordinary, to explore strange and original ideas, and to let her curiosity guide me. Learn more about Pamela Smith at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
Happy National Poetry Month to all our writers and readers 💜 In our Spring '26 issue of Tint, we feature 9 poems written by ESL writers from different parts of the world! Celebrate ESL poetry with us and read the texts at tintjournal.com.
TINT NONFICTION // Cookie Noh is an award-winning author of four poetry anthologies. Their work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Center for Cultural Innovation in California, and Seoul Arts Foundation. Find them at windproofrudder.substack.com.
Art: Viviana De Cecco
This list of daily affirmations serves as a love letter and reminder to all ESL writers to proudly and confidently share your valuable stories with the world 💜 Keep creating! The rest of the affirmations are on our Instagram page @tintjournal 💫
AUTHOR Q&A // Jee Ann Guibone needs music to keep her going when she's writing. It’s the same when she's writing an emotional scene. She listens to really sad or melancholic songs to immerse herself in the moment. Learn more about the author of "A Year in Tokyo" at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Jowita Bydlowska, author of "Proof of Magic" (Tint Spring '26), on her memoir release today 🎊💜 Support Jowita and purchase a copy of Unshaming published by Penguin Random House Canada or download the audiobook version at www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/771472...
TINT POETRY // A Pushcart Prize nominee, MK Kuol is a self-taught poet from South Sudan whose work has appeared on ANMLY, Beach Chair Press, Rough Diamond Poetry Journal, Kalahari Review and elsewhere. MK tweets (rarely) @mk_kuol14. Read the poem at tintjournal.com/poetry/sappho
Art: Sievers
AUTHOR Q&A // Melissa Luz doesn’t think she started writing because she had a clear goal. It wasn’t like “I want to be a writer.” It felt more urgent than that. Learn more about the author of "To Hold the Falling Light" (Tint Spring '26) at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
🌸SPRING GIVE-AWAY🌸 For a chance to WIN a Tint Spring Bundle (access to full-length audios from #15, tote bag, bookmarks, stickers):
1. Follow us on Ko-fi/Instagram
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Entries are accepted until April 1, midnight (CET) 💜🎊
TINT FICTION // Jowita Bydlowska is the author of Unshaming (March 2026). She’s also a prolific short-story writer, journalist and a mentor. Born and raised in Poland, she moved to Canada and writes in her second language. Read her story at tintjournal.com/short-story/....
Art: Johannes Gerard
Flowers are blooming and temperatures are slowly rising: Spring is finally here! Last month, we asked the tinted team about any spring-themed recommendations they might have for our readers. 4 editors have contributed: Lisa Schantl, Candice Louisa Daquin, Trang Dinah Tran, and Sabyasachi Roy 🌸⛅️
Are you ready for a daily reading challenge? Join our Tint Spring '26 Bingo and read as many texts as you can from our current issue! We can't wait to see you participate! 🤩 Red boxes refer to poetry, yellow boxes indicate fiction, and green boxes represent nonfiction. Read now at tintjournal.com.
We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all writers and artists who submitted their work to us. We further thank all who we chose to include in Tint Spring '26 for agreeing to publishing their work with Tint Journal! Last but not least, we would like to thank all our editors and volunteers 💜
With issue 15, we can now call 86 locales* officially tinted! We send out a very warm welcome to the writers of Guatemala, Moldova, and South Sudan.
*See our Mission at tintjournal.com/about/our-mi... to find out why and how we use “locale”
OUT NOW: Issue Spring '26 🎊 The latest issue of Tint Journal, the award-winning literary magazine for English as a second language (ESL) writers, is out today! Find all texts online and for free at tintjournal.com 🌐
Have you marked your calendars? There are 3 more days until the release of Tint Spring '26! Here is a sneak peek of what's awaiting you in Issue #15 💜
TINT IN CONVERSATION // In a heavily gendered and surveilled society, how do you protect/find/reclaim yourself? Anisha Lalvani’s "Girls Who Stray" is the story of a society seen through the eyes of an unnamed girl. Read Amritesh Mukherjee's full review at tintjournal.com/review/a-rev....
On March 10, 2026, our 15th issue, Tint Spring '26, will be up and running on tintjournal.com. Get ready to explore 24 prose and poetry pieces by just as many writers, stating a total of 23 different locales as their spots on this Earth and calling 17 different languages their first 🎉💜
Having trouble finding useful writing resources? Here are nine tools and websites that you can use to visualize your stories and simplify the writing process! If we missed any platforms or you would like more recommendations, let us know in the comments 💜
BLÄTTERN says goodbye! To those based in Graz, we warmly invite you to join the farewell party. Drop by whenever you have time ;) If you're wondering where Tint will be from April 2026 onwards, you can always find us in our online spaces as usual, and wherever our editors are working and exploring 💫
TINT POETRY // Sarp Sozdinler has been published in numerous journals and selected or nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Wigleaf Top 50. They currently are at work on their first novel. Read their poem at tintjournal.com/poetry/false....
Art: Eryk Siemianowicz
Although this opportunity is not affiliated in any way with Tint, we think this is an amazing stipend, so we are sharing it gladly! Find the guidelines in English at kultur.graz.at/pdfs/guideli... and more details on the overall process at kultur.graz.at/kulturamt/33. Best of luck!