Astrolabe

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A literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe. https://astrolabe.ooo

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Astrolabe Best Microfiction Nominees --- Devan Murphy "Goatboy" Shana Ross "Annual Review" Carter Lappin "Sometimes You Can’t Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose" Veronica Tucker "The Waiting Room At The End of the Universe" Susan L Lin "She Had Her Head in the Attic"
Astrolabe Summer 2025 --- Amanda Yskamp - "Gathering" Shana Ross - "Annual Review" Guan Un - "Sorrow for Youth" Eli Dowd - "They Buried Their Dead in Sitting Posture" Carter Lappin - "Sometimes You Can't Help but Feel Like He Does These Things on Purpose"
our next issue will materialize on July 17th for Mercury Retrograde
Astrolabe Best Small Fiction nominees --- Heather Kamins "The Destination" Khalid Mitchell "This Is What Always Happens" Erika Walsh "On Your Twenty-Sixth Birthday, You Receive Twenty-Six Instructions"
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Astrolabe Best Microfiction nominees -- Amelia K. “Oh Me Oh My Oh” Satya Dash “Reconciliation” Joe Gallagher “The Basics of Owl Keeping” Ian Li “Light of My Life”
Astrolabe 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations --- Laura K. Wallace "Pancakes" Lucy Zhang "Proximity to Life" A.A. Balaskovits "Nothing Buried Won't Reveal" Lindsey Godfrey Eccles "A Little Dirt Between Our Toes" Joshua Jones Lofflin "The Last Library"
Astrid Liu is a MFA Creative Writing candidate at the University of Arizona who writes multimedia poetry and nonfiction, and translates from Cantonese to English. Their work has won the University of Arizona Minnie Torrance Award, a Carsons Scholar Fellowship, and appeared in the Academy of American Poets. She currently lives in Tucson with their black cat Jackie and the desert stars.
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Astrolabe Best Microfiction nominees --- Ash Howell “Annelida” Benjamin Niespodziany “Woodland Wisdom Tooth” Thomas Hobohm “[He keeps handing me cacti]” Ashish Kumar Singh “I Asked Pain Its Address,” lae astra “Wingspread (Letter to Yanyi)”
Astrolabe Pushcart Prize nominees Christine Kwon “The Chinese Man and the Desert” Jaye Nasir “The Sound of a Door Opening in the Forest” lae astra “Wingspread (Letter to Yanyi)” Ash Howell “Annelida”
Astrolabe 2023 Best of the Net nominees -- Summer 2023 James Diaz - "Where the light, think of it, covers everything" Arihant Jain - "Melanin No. 6" Spring 2023 Emrys Donaldson - "The Iridescents" Alex Toy - "I Love Everyone" Ashish Kumar Singh - "I Asked Pain Its Address," Thomas Hobohm - "[He keeps handing me cacti]" Winter 2022 Shannan Mann - "Wedding ring is to take off as crash is to land" Teresa Pham-Carsillo - "The Weatherman Again Predicts a Once-in-a-Lifetime Storm" Sneha Subramanian Kanta - "For Sentimentality" Joshua Effiong - "Body as a home for the sun"
A visualization of space and "stars," in various colors and sizes, each representing a piece of writing or artwork published on Astrolabe
A background of stars in various colors, with the following text overlaid: Astrolabe Autumn 2023 Marguerite Sheffer ⋅ “The Unicorn in Captivity” Amy Barnes ⋅ “The Gentrification of Rocket Falls” lae astra ⋅ “Wingspread (Letter to Yanyi)” Max Wheeler ⋅ “Life Cycle” [sarah] Cavar ⋅ “Skim” Jaye Nasir ⋅ “The Sound of a Door Opening in the Forest”
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