When it comes to publishing, there are many ways to approach the writer-editor relationship. We care a whole lot about the person behind the piece, and the unique experiences and observations that they bring to the page. Which makes each issue of our annual literary magazine all the more textured and nuanced, each conversation that much richer in its complexity. For each issue, our contributors respond to a call for submissions that was carefully crafted and curated by a handful of our community members — past contributors, TSW team members, and the occasional guest curator. Over the years, we have seen just how expansively and incredibly folks have interpreted our calls.

You can explore our contributors’ work in two ways: in the next dropdown, you’ll find a list of everyone we’ve published since 2015, and below that, you’ll see portals into each of our issues, along with the initial call for submission that contributors responded to. We publish it all — prose and poetry, visual art, excerpts from plays, collaborations, audio stories, and even parts of academic dissertations. We’ve always believed that if we can publish it, we can work with it — so long as the piece and the creator are engaging with our topic in an interesting way. Dig into each issue in its entirety or hop around to get a feel for pieces by genre; either way, we highly suggest, in the kindest way possible, to allow yourself to get lost in the archives.