Parentheses Journal is an independent literary journal based in Ontario, Canada.
We create our own utopias in the imperfections of being. The voices contain within figments of dust and deep trenches, everyday harmonies, and soliloquies in the sand. The aesthetic of bent dust hardbacks and thick lettered illegible syntaxes in ancient caverns nudges. A semblance of everydayness, colloquial artifacts of experience, membranes of telling over war-frayed leaves rouses.
You belong.
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is the author of the chapbooks Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020), Ancestral–Wing (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming), and Every Elegy Is A Love Poem (Variant Lit, forthcoming). She is a recipient of the 2022 Digital Residency from The Seventh Wave and the 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship at Stockton University. She is the recipient of the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She is the Charles Wallace Fellow writer in residence (2019-20) at The University of Stirling. Most recently, her poem won the Canadian Authors Association – Toronto inaugural Poetry Prize 2022. Her multi-genre work is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Geist, Sheridan’s The Ampersand Review, and elsewhere. Website: www.snehasubramaniankanta.com
Harshal Desai is an entrepreneur, artist, and designer. His multiform photography is published in National Geographic, Indianapolis Review, Shanghai Literary Review, and elsewhere. His fiction is published in Peacock Journal, Former Cactus, Tell Me Your Story, and elsewhere. He loves graphic novels, manga, the woods, and museums. He finds inner peace taking long walks while listening to hard rock and heavy metal.
Cathy Ulrich is a mixed-race writer from Montana. Her work has been published in various journals, including Black Warrior Review, Passages North and Wigleaf, and can be found in Best Microfiction 2019, Best Small Fiction 2019 and Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2017 and 2019. She is the author of Ghosts of You (2019, Okay Donkey Press).
Aiden Heung (He/They) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town, now living in Shanghai, the city which inspired him to many poems. His poems written in English have been published or forthcoming in Crazyhorse, The Cordite Poetry Review, PoetLore, 声韵诗刊, and elsewhere. A trained squash player, he is also an avid reader of world literature. He idolizes Roberto Bolaño. He is on Twitter @aidenheung.
What interests me in a poetry submission:
I love reading poems that are emotionally complex, words that take me to places, and images that haunt me. I want to be trapped in a poem. I adore details, craft and grit. I want honesty. I enjoy poems about stories as well as formally innovative poems. I embrace diverse voices about different (sometimes similar) human experiences. I admire poems dealing with difficult topics (environmental, socio-political, cultural, or ethical). I take great delight in reading poems from multilingual writers.
Sylvia Santiago has textual, visual, or textual + visual work in Cutbow Quarterly, Ellipsis Zine, Gasher Journal, among others. She reads fiction and poetry as a Submissions Editor for Uncanny Magazine. She is on Twitter @sylviasays2
What interests me in a poetry submission:
A distinct voice and/or mood. Unusual or unexpected word choices and/or imagery. A diversity of voices and styles. Being moved. Work that is evocative. Work that is engaging. Work that celebrates a range of voices and topics.