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River Styx Magazine
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River Styx, now in its 50th year, is a non-profit, multicultural literary and visual arts magazine based in St. Louis. https://www.riverstyx.org
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · 13d
In a dystopian world where history is rewritten by an oppressive government, a calligrapher struggles to embed defiance and the memory of her freedom-loving father into her mandated texts, finding solace and truth in her secret love, Jimmy, and the symbolic power of unpredictable clouds.
"The Art of History and the Interpretation of Clouds" by Jeff Burt — River Styx Magazine
A calligrapher struggles against an oppressive government.
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Kim Hayes @u2girl1966.bsky.social · Aug 16
My husband stumbled across this this morning. He's bringing them home for me to read.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Aug 16
River Styx 110: Plum is available for preorder. Featuring new writing and art by Maryn Blanco, Noor Jafari, Marc McKee, Hantian Zhang, Allison Field Bell, and more.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Jul 27
We’ve extended the deadline for The River Styx Contest to September 1, 2025. (Announcement date is still January 1.) Enter your fiction or poetry. See our website for complete rules. www.riverstyx.org/the-river-st...
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Jun 18
We interviewed Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao and director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, on literary forms, longing, and being a Midwesterner.

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Lan Samantha Chang: The River Styx Interview — River Styx Magazine
An interview with Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 30
In Mary Troy’s story, “Don’t Take This the Wrong Way,” a woman with a complicated family history and a troubled marriage experiences a sense of liberation when her husband leaves and her half-brother, a repeat offender, moves in. @marytroy.bsky.social

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"Don't Take This the Wrong Way" by Mary Troy — River Styx Magazine
A short story about marriage and theft.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 23
In Elzbieta Zdunek’s series SOMETHING HUMAN, the artist “explores the way we are perceived from the outside…the weight of external judgement: how labels define or dismiss us, and the impossible, often conflicting expectations placed upon us.”

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Something Human by Elzbieta Zdunek — River Styx Magazine
A Berlin-based collagist takes on the subject of perception.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · May 17
Very much enjoyed this back-and-forth with Bryan Castille for River Styx magazine.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 16
We caught up with Joseph O’Neill, author of GODWIN and NETHERLAND.

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River Styx Managing Editor Bryan Castille interviews Joseph O'Neill, author of Godwin, Netherland, and Blood-Dark Track.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 16
We caught up with Joseph O’Neill, author of GODWIN and NETHERLAND.

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Joseph O'Neill: The River Styx Interview — River Styx Magazine
River Styx Managing Editor Bryan Castille interviews Joseph O'Neill, author of Godwin, Netherland, and Blood-Dark Track.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 15
New poems this week by Rebecca Boyle. Read now for free.
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"Little T Saw God at George's" and Other Poems by Rebecca Boyle — River Styx Magazine
Poems by Rebecca Boyle.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 12
Our contest in fiction and poetry is open until August 1.

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2026 River Styx Contest — River Styx Magazine
The 2026 River Styx Contest in fiction and poetry is judged by Lisa Olstein and Bennett Sims. Enter today and win $1000 plus publication online and in print.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 9
Come hear Knar Gavin, Lars Chinburg, and Lindsey Webb read for our Summer Reading Series! It’s free.

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Summer Reading Series — River Styx Magazine
The River Styx Summer Readings Series features Knar Gavin, Lars Chinburg, and Lindsey Webb. Register for free on Eventbrite.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · May 7
We’ve been quietly working on a little project for the past year to celebrate our 50th anniversary:

— River Styx: 50 Years of Poetry & Prose —

An anthology of some of the best writing from a half-century of the magazine.

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River Styx: 50 Years of Poetry & Prose — River Styx Magazine
A retrospective anthology featuring some of the best writing from the past 50 years of River Styx Magazine. Including Margaret Atwood, Claudia Rankine, Rajiv Mohabir, Jane Wong, Pamela Hadas, and many...
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Apr 23
Please join us for a special virtual event with Deborah Taffa, author Whiskey Tender! April 30 @ 8pm (CST).

Register for free here:

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River Styx: Indigenous Writers Series with Deborah Taffa
Eventbrite - River Styx Magazine presents River Styx: Indigenous Writers Series with Deborah Taffa - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Apr 18
We’re running a promo! Buy a copy of River Styx 109 print edition and get a copy of River Styx 108 free. Shipping applies. For a limited time. Promo code: BOGO
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Apr 16
Lars Chinburg’s “Along the River” brings wildfire to a Montana valley where a solitary shepherd’s actions have dire consequences for a nearby family.

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"Along the River" by Lars Chinburg — River Styx Magazine
A short story by Lars Chinburg from River Styx 109: Posthuman.
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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · Apr 12
Excited to get home and see this poem in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social — thanks to @micahbateman.bsky.social for sheparding it into good hands!
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bad futa @badfuta.bsky.social · Apr 10
six drawings featured in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social "Posthuman" issue 🤖❤️ #art #drawing #posthuman

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River Styx 109: Posthuman — River Styx Magazine
Order ships March 31. At 330 pages, this is our longest issue ever! Preview the issue. In his treatise on the interconnectedness of all things, The Ecological Thought , Timothy Morton writes, “B...
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Apr 9
Please join us for a soecial virtual event with Deborah Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender. April 30, 8pm CST. Register for free.

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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Apr 3
New poetry for spring 2025. Featuring CMarie Fuhrman, Cary Stough, Hannah Bonner, Lauren Haldeman, Knar Gavin, Harris Wheless, David Dodd Lee, Jan Garden Castro, and Alicia Wright.

Read now for free.

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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Mar 20
We must cancel our spring issue virtual event for March 27. It turns out AWP INC is a force not to be contended with. We’ll reschedule!
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knarpoet @knarpoet.bsky.social · Mar 14
real glad to have a set of poems up at @riverstyxmag.bsky.social ! i'll drop the smol one here, & u can hop to the link for the other (spoiler/lure: it involves the Hershman-Leeson filmTEKNOLUST!) www.riverstyx.org/proof-blog/k...
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Mar 15
Submit to River Styx 111: Mitsake by September 1, 2025.

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Robert Stinner @rwstinner.bsky.social · Mar 6
I have a new story in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social called “Death and the Bachelor,” and it’s for all the Old Hollywood obsessives, queer cinephiles, romantics and existentialists out there. 🤍✨
Death and the Bachelor — River Styx Magazine
“His kiss was mist off a waterfall.”
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River Styx Magazine @riverstyxmag.bsky.social · Mar 6
The 2026 River Styx Contest is now open. Judged by Lisa Olstein (poetry) and Bennett Sims (fiction). Deadline August 1st. $1000 + publication in print and online.
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2026 River Styx Contest — River Styx Magazine
The 2026 River Styx Contest in fiction and poetry is judged by Lisa Olstein and Bennett Sims. Enter today and win $1000 plus publication online and in print.
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