Crack the Spine is Closed for Submissions

Dear Readers & Contributors of Crack the Spine, For over ten years now, this literary magazine has been the primary focus of my life....

Anthology: The Year 2020

This anthology seeks to provide a service. Our world moves at an increasingly rapid pace; words and memories become disposable, and we often find...

Issue 269

After ten years of publishing beautiful words from a diverse collection of writers, poets, and essayists, Crack the Spine is closing to new submissions...

Issue 268

I’m the smallest in my mischief and afraid of my own shadow. When I feel a mighty roar inside, I open my mouth and...

Issue 268 Contributors

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Issue 267

in the forest of the continuation: see the moon winking it is a thing to do

Issue 267 Contributors

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Issue 266

I don’t feel myself being devoured. I don’t crunch between his teeth like I thought I would. Instead I splatter.

Issue 266 Contributors

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Issue 265

Little whirlpools of red fingerprints on limp, pale hands hanging from a ceiling. The moment something is dissected is when it stops looking like...