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            Musk and petrichor waft from the pages of Olga Ravn’s third novel, The Wax Child. The novel details the tragedy of 17th-century Danish women condemned for witchcraft, as told in first-person by a wax child—a beeswax puppet stuffed grotesquely with the nails and hair… Read more »

This interview took place in a courtyard outside of Varun’s Pittsburgh apartment on a summer evening in July. The sound of cicadas, crows, and blue jays called out during our conversation. Varun and I are close friends, and we have read and supported each other’s work for a number of… Read more »

In What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium, Faroese poet Kim Simonsen suggests we have the opportunity to encounter the universe in every person: “The electric consciousness of the human mind / within your eyes / already existed… Read more »

Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. Ally is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Their debut poetry collection, Let the Moon Wobble,… Read more »

Austyn Wohlers’s novel Hothouse Bloom effortlessly draws the reader into a fever state of interiority, an interiority too large to be seen in its entirety. The edges of raw, unadulterated color are visible from the rows of apple flowers in bloom. With a pendulum-like balance, Wohler draws back and forth… Read more »

Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner of the 2023 Elixir Press Fiction Award, published by University of Wisconsin Press in November… Read more »

DONIKA KELLY is the author of The Natural Order of Things, The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National… Read more »

The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose. The Adroit Prizes are awarded annually to two students of secondary or undergraduate status. We’re fortunate to receive exceptional work from emerging writers in high school and college, and… Read more »

The saint arrives in a horse trailer, packed in a box made from tamanu wood. She has no name, her age is uncertain, and there is no sign of death or decay. Orrin Bird is reluctant to take her. A half-broken man living in the remote north-west of Australia in… Read more »