After/Thought Literary

Welcome to After/Thought Literary

We are the dreamers. The restless. The ones who speak sideways and think in ellipses. We are the writers who don’t always fit and the readers who crave something we can’t quite name. After/Thought Literary is a journal born in the margins, made for the misfits—of genre, of voice, of heart.

This is a space for the work that lingers. That trembles. That doesn’t raise its hand or ask for permission. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work that digs deep and leaves a mark. If your words have kept you up at night, if they haunt you, heal you, or refuse to let you go—send them here.

We’re not after perfection. We’re after resonance. We want pieces that shake something loose, that sting, that spark. The kind of writing you almost didn’t send.

We believe in access. We believe in voices that don’t always get heard. We believe in saying yes to the work that makes us feel alive.

This is After/Thought Literary. Come get lost with us.