The fall issue of Centaur is live! Art by Ewerton Lua, writing by @JackieGoyette78, @LinforthC, @d_marcusa, @ClaudiaMonpere, Michelle Ross, and Francine Witte. centaurlit.com/

Wrapping up our writer spotlights with a letter of love to a sister in "Spring Bouquet," by Meg Pokrass centaurlit.com/spring-bouque…

On astrology TikTok, they warn against Saturn tattoos. Negative energy. Limited. The planet of rigid boundaries. Consumed by karma and lessons from the past. Read "My Brother Died, and All I Got Was This Stupid Tattoo," by Brittany Micka-Foos centaurlit.com/my-brother-di…

When the music stops we’re mid-twerk—legs bent, hands on knees, booties popping out—our faux leather jeggings and hip-hugging denim flares gaining purchase above the low-lying fog ... Read "Stayin’ Alive" by Jennifer Lai centaurlit.com/stayin-alive-…

Read "Red Mother in Midday," by Erica Kitch. Mother, in the midday sun, smelled of Big Red and Red Door and dyed her crown box red; splattered with freckles and five feet tall, cheeks dented with a gentle nature belying bonfire smoke. centaurlit.com/red-mother-in…

"My curls will be bursting their gel casts and expanding, expanding. No one coifs a lion’s mane or flattens a cockatoo’s crest." Read "Morning Ablutions" by @carlaedash centaurlit.com/morning-ablut…

"The kind of night you might curl like tobacco smoke, etch yourself into the grooves of a record that can be played somewhere else, anywhere else." Read "Crossroads Diner Blues, 1937," by @MynaChang centaurlit.com/crossroads-di…

"The parties were over, and we found a praying mantis in the basement. It was green enough to be a miracle." Celebrate summer by reading "Conspicuous Consumption," by @bbl_brett. centaurlit.com/conspicuous-c…

It's the summer issue, loaded with great work by @bbl_brett , @MynaChang, @carlaedash, Erica Kitch, Jennifer Lai, Brittany Micka-Foos, and Meg Pokrass, with art by Frega + DiPerri. centaurlit.com/

"I stopped trying to get rid of them, since nobody was left to tell me otherwise." centaurlit.com/a-single-lady… "A Single Ladybug, Lying Dead on the Windowsill," by Elena Zhang @EZhang77 In honor of our spring issue❤️💐 (More sensational work hosted by @centaurlit next week)

"According to mythology, the tree is a home to shapeshifters—if you are (un)lucky, one may fall hard for you and follow you around for the rest of your sweet life." Read "Manual for an American Novice in a Small Indian Town," by @tara_zambrano centaurlit.com/manual-for-an…

Celebrating the spring issue with "The Archipelago," by @lclmixedupmedia. "Now, scrying the shimmery surface of the mirror lake, the wives turn toward the one anointed by the moon." centaurlit.com/archipelago-b…

Congratulations, all. Shout out to @doylejacq for inclusion of "(Parenthetical Asides)" published in Centaur's first issue. Thanks to the whole hard-working @Wigleaf team for bringing us this treasure trove of stories every year! We love you, Wigleaf!

Celebrating the spring issue with "Mushrooms," by @KathrynKulpa. "... ashes forming shapes like when we used to watch clouds—It’s an elephant! It’s a sea serpent!—but these were the shapes of everyone we knew..." centaurlit.com/mushrooms-by-…

Celebrating the spring issue with "Drones," by Ulrica Hume @uhume. "Casket. Inside: a flower-print dress. And over that, a blue London Fog raincoat. Safety pins holding a swath of sky together." centaurlit.com/drones-by-ulr…

Congratulations, @andrea_jurjevic, for inclusion of "Uncle Soul," originally published in Centaur's Fall 2023 issue, in Best Small Fictions 2024! centaurlit.com/uncle-soul-by… altcurrentpress.com/best-sma…

Celebrating the summer issue with writer @laughingyeti "... we entered the radio like ghosts to their forgotten homes and twirled around the reels with our mouths opened, becoming magnetic—dizzied and mesmerized—into the echoes we lost ourselves..." centaurlit.com/plastic-river…

The Spring issue of Centaur Lit is launched, with work by @laughingyeti, @garson_scott, @uhume, @KathrynKulpa, @lclmixedupmedia, @tara_zambrano, and @EZhang77, and photo by Kelsey van den Bosch. One-year annivesary of the journal! centaurlit.com/

Wrapping up the winter issue celebration with Karen Walker's tale in a list that contains so much. centaurlit.com/eleven-years-…

As we gear up for our May issue, let's keep celebrating the winter writers with "The girl goes," by @loki_writes. "...into the mouths of our mothers and their don’t go there alones, the ever-lengthening hems of our dresses..." centaurlit.com/the-girl-goes…