Our spring 2026 issue
River Styx 111: Mitsake, featuring Barbara Duffey, Arah Ko, Leslie Johnson, Christy Stillwell, and more.
Recent Poetry
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Recent Fiction
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River Styx 110: Plum explores the writer’s relationship to art, flavor, color, and deep-dwelling truths.
Interview with Jessica Johns.
Poetry by Mathilde Merouani, Marc McKee, Spencer Short, Noor Jafari, and Elise Thi Tran.
Fiction by Meagan Arthur, Allison Field Bell, Kathleen DeGrave, Leah Halper, and Megan Paslawski.
Nonfiction by Jesse Rasmussen and Hantian Zhang.
Artwork by Dominic Finocchio.
Cover artwork by Maryn Blanco.
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Page count TBA. Printed on acid-free paper in the United States of America.
Print edition. Release date: November 1, 2025.
Shipping weight: 1.2 lbs., approximately. Standard shipping rates apply.
At 330 pages, this is our longest issue ever!
In his treatise on the interconnectedness of all things, The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton writes, “Being a person means never being sure you’re one.” What makes us human—what makes us human now, on a planet that feels increasingly hostile to life—is the central question of River Styx 109: Posthuman.
Poetry by Alicia Wright, Amish Trivedi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Jessica Laser, Sara Deniz Akant, Knar Gavin, and Raye Hendrix.
Fiction by Bradley Bazzle, Kelly Magee, Aimee Pogson, Lars Chinburg, Nandini Bhattacharya, and Mark Crimmins.
Graphic fiction by Albert Dixon.
Nonfiction by Lindsey Webb, Sara Eliza Johnson, Yelizaveta Renfro, and Jan Garden Castro.
Play by Drew Larimore.
Art by badfuta, Heather Newton Brown, and karborn.
Photography by James Reade Venable and Scott Brennan.
Includes the 2025 River Styx Prizes winners in fiction (Benjamin Hollo) and poetry (Michael Autrey).
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330 pages. Printed on acid-free paper in the United States of America.
Print edition. Published March 31, 2025.
ISBN: 979-8-218-62281-7
Uh-oh. Human beings can be defined as bipedal mammals who make mistakes. And learn from them. And make them again. There’s be no mistaking River Styx 111, which is all about our errors, blunders, lapses, and slip-ups, our blunders, gaffes, and goofs. Watch out, take care, pay attention.
Poetry by Barbara Duffey, Emily Leithauser, Steve Petkus, Lexi Pelle, Meghan Sterling, Beth Oast Williams, Arah Ko, Ella Flores, Sarah Des Rosiers-Legault, Ivy Goodman, Cecelia Hagen, Joseph Capista, Lillian Emerick Valentine, and Erin Redfern.
Fiction by Christopher Lee Chilton, Leslie Johnson, Bob Johnson, Megan Tifft, Sarah Bradley, Stephanie Erber, and Christy Stillwell.
Includes the winners of the 2026 River Styx Contest: “Like River” by Mikhaela Woodward and Three Poems by Samuel Piccone.
Cover artwork by Eric Haacht.
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Page count: 190 pages. Printed on acid-free paper in the United States of America.
Print edition. Release date: June 15, 2026.
Shipping weight: 1.2 lbs., approximately. Standard shipping rates apply.
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