Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Volume XI: 2021

Volume XI: 2021

“Bad Daddy” by Rickey Fayne

“Parabiosis” by Tess Gunty

“Lady Leopard” by Drew Calvert

“2007” by Eddy Boudel Tan

“Cosabella Blues” by Lauren Lauterhahn

“Reaching for a Signal” by Caleb Michael Sarvis

“A Fun Mix of Garments for All Occasions” by Rachel Hoiles Farrell

“We Cannot Yet Call It Failure” by Mesha Maren

“Reunion” by Mimi Wong

“Woman Flower” by Jiaming Tang

“Treasure” by Annina Zheng-Hardy

“Spontaneous and Appealing” by Chloë Boxer

“Women I’m Not Friends With Anymore” by Rebecca van Laer

“The Sweet” by Rose Himber Howse

“Prophets” by Brandon Taylor

“Ophelia in the Underworld” by Kit Mitchell

“Wants” by Jen Lue

“Mother Root” by Catherine Flora Con

“Everything We Do Brings Us Closer to the Truth” by A.G.S. Gordon

“Imperial Valley” by Krista Diamond

“The Mud Path” by Lauren Garretson-Atkinson

“Other Voices, Other Blues” by David Exumé

“The Lightning Jar” by Emily Woodworth

“Coyote Smith” by Madeline Stevens

“Daughters of the Air” by Kate McQuade

“Tongues” by Jimmy Cajoleas

“Roadkill” by Jenny Xie

“It Won’t Be Long, It Won’t Belong” by Carl Lavigne

“Ten Year Affair” by Erin Somers

“The Bean and the Boneyard” by Samantha Edmonds

“Flamethrower” by J.E. Sills

“A Survey of the Literature” by Eva Dunsky

“The Whip” by Xochitl Gonzalez

“Alice” by Margaret Meehan

“Sediment” by Divya Maniar

“Like Goldfish” by Shy Watson

“A Whole New World” by Amina Gautier

“Good Route, Bad Route” by Daisuke Shen

“An Island” by Council Bailey

“Longo” by Brad Wetherell

“Every Drop Is A Man’s Nightmare” by Megan Kakimoto

“Hard Luck Hand” by Michael Bible

“Notes on a Christmas Bombing” by Susannah Felts

“The Language of Melons” by Annie Trinh

“Friend of the Pod” by Frannie Comstock

“The Death of the Author / Maladaptive Daydreams for the Astronaut in Training” by Lily C. Buday

“The Smoker” by Alexa Economacos

“Nina, Rome” by Cristina Sandu

An excerpt from The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman

“We Together Clinging” by Noah Canto

“The Island of Sodor” by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry

“Dead Animals” by Amy Stuber

“Allelopathy” by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

“Act Like a Snit” by Anne Kilfoyle

“The Celebration” by Courtney Balestier

“Lark” by Joel Fishbane

“Strange Gifts” by Celine Aenlle-Rocha

“The Family Way” by Christopher DiRaddo

“Her Last Time in Dothan” by Halle Hill

“The Mother” by Rebecca Nakaba

“The Resurfacing” by Nivedita Barve

“Shoebills” by Reese Sawye

“Prune Yourself, Girlfriend!™” by Liz Breazeale

“Travellers” by Kate Cayley

“Caretakers” by Andrew Eckholm

“The Buddy System” by Cassie Mannes Murray

“A Crater on Jupiter” by Courtney Causey

“Busybody” by Ashton Carlile

“Sanctuary” by J. Vera Lee

“There Are No Hills On the Cape” by Duncan Birmingham

“Maps” by Vanessa Chan

“Leaving the Landfill” by Jackson Saul

“Barrio Boys” by Vincent Chavez

“Hurricane Gothic” by Blake Sanz

“Cowboys in Missouri” by Kevin Clouther

“Nothing Special” by Sydney Rende

“Between and Still” by Margaret Redmond Whitehead

“Kissing Frogs” by Foster Dalmas

“The Two Brothers” by Laura I. Miller

“Solstice” by Walker Rutter-Bowman

“Maps to Nowhere” by Nara Vidal, translated from Portuguese by Emyr Humphreys

“That Drowning Place” by Morgan Thomas

“Study for the Prophet Joel” by Willie Fitzgerald

“Skateland USA” by Graham Irvin

“Story of Girl” by Sarah Jane Cody

“Hurricane Watch” by Eileen Elizabeth

“Reckonings” by Brock Clarke

“Survivors” by Lauren Green

“In Which the Writer Speaks to Her Literary Merit” by Zoë Ruiz

“Antipode” by Amina Kayani

“The Decision Thread” by Sarah Priestman

“A  List of Things I Have Used the Knife for Thus Far” by Alexander Lumans

“Sidekick” by Dalton Monk

“A Beauty in Dying” by Stéphane Martelly

“The Volcano” by Adam O’Fallon Price

“The Entire History of Us” by Marisa Crane

“American Wonder” by Kosiso Ugwueze

“Harold of Salina Dreams of Swans” by David Lewis

“Our Last Suburban Summer” by Emily Neuberger

“Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse” by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

“The Origami of a Settler’s Heart” by Rajiv Ramkhalawan

“Ghetto Pass” by Kris Broughton

“Brawny, Brainy, Good” by Emily Adrian

“Drop Velocity” by April Sopkin

“The Farmer Takes a Wife” by Holly Goddard Jones

“Breathe” by Cathryn Rose

“Hellseer” by Laura Green

“I’m Sick But Missing You” by Hassaan Mirza

“Vision” by Cara Blue Adams

“Umbra” by Candice Wuehle

“Ask at the Front Desk” by Ann Russell

“Justin, in Three Parts” by Craig Willse

“Intake” by Evan Jerome Williams

Joyland Magazine
Joyland is a literary journal that publishes stories by region, based on the idea that fiction is an international movement supported by local communities