The Offing

The Offing is a digital literary magazine that showcases original creative writing across various genres and features artwork in diverse forms.

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Every six months or so

Feb 13, 2025 | theoffingmag.com | Hannah Grieco |Jennifer Givhan |Kimberly Rooney |Mark Keats

I get an email from Ancestry.com. I leave it unread in my inbox, at first. I think about deleting it. I think, for the hundredth time, about unsubscribing and blocking. I think about canceling the account, which was a gift from my adoptive mother almost ten years ago. Every six months or so, I stare out the window instead of working. My skin itches for days. I eventually scratch, open the email, click on the site link. I need to see how the map of my people has changed.
Interview with KB Brookins, author of Pretty

Dec 6, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Shlagha Borah |Gauri Awasthi |Aurielle Marie |Joseph Osmundson

KB Brookins is a writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH A WOUND (2022, Kallisto Gaia Press), FREEDOM HOUSE (2023, Deep Vellum), and PRETTY (2024, Alfred A. Knopf). The Offing published their poems March 20, 2024. Editorial Assistant Shlagha Borah conducted the Q&A. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to the Q&A with The Offing contributor KB Brookins.
A MAP - The Offing

Nov 26, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Janan Alexandra |Deborah Thompson |Lilly Dancyger

1. We tend to use the word “bitter” to denote taste, temperature, or feeling. Often, though not always, bitterness carries a negative charge, bringing us into proximity with a mostly undesirable set of feelings or experiences. Perhaps like jealousy, one doesn’t aspire toward bitterness in one’s inner life, relational world, emotional wheelhouse, etc. 2. In common parlance, the word is familiar and mundane: bitter greens, a bitter wind blew all night.
Math Sestina - The Offing

Nov 20, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Emma B.N.J. Janssen |Mia Ayumi Malhotra |Shannan Mann |Noelani Piters

I lose the language to speak to my bodyso I pick up math for its new notation. I wear out fingernails & nights on graphpaper & learn matrices, determinants, sets. The best part is that I’m no good at math,never have been. I tire professors & scrap paper,exhausting notebooks with errors & paperingmargins with graphite. Tattooing the clean bodyof a proof with eraser scrubs & messy math. To improve my reasoning, I bring notationinto my routines.
Q&A with Ariana Benson, author of Black Pastoral

Nov 15, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Ashaki M. Jackson |Kosiso Ugwueze |Mimi Wong |Kennedy Marie Crowder

Ariana Benson is a southern Black ecopoet and the author of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize collection BLACK PASTORAL (University of Georgia Press, 2023). Back of the Envelope Assistant Editor Kennedy Marie Crowder conducted the Q&A. This interview has been edited for clarity. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to this Q&A with Sarah Ghazal Ali, as well as exclusive access to her list of favorite ghazals.
Tía-shaped - The Offing

Oct 22, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Deborah Thompson |Lilly Dancyger |Ananda Kumar. S

tía Daniela has a Depeche Mode rose tattooed above her ankle tía Hortensia moves from pot to pot across her backyard, begonias, hibiscus, and gardenias anointed with holy hose water tía Janie tells stories of young white men asking her to two-step at Cowboys Dance Hall tía Susan makes the sign of the cross every time she drives by a Catholic church tía Cindy says aver while she puts on reading glasses to look at a photo of your novio tía Rosie watches Sex in the City reruns on E! before bed...
Q&A with Bruna Dantas Lobato, author of Blue Light Hours

Oct 18, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Gauri Awasthi |Ashaki M. Jackson |Ryan Wong

Bruna Dantas Lobato is the author of BLUE LIGHT HOURS (Grove Atlantic, 2024). Essay Editor Steffan Triplett conducted the Q&A. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to this Q&A with Bruna Dantas Lobato, as well as exclusive access to the interview video. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all our supporters in sustaining our work. ◆Steffan Triplett: I wanted to give you a belated congratulations on the National Book Award win.
Q&A with Jess Yuan, author of Slow Render

Oct 4, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Gauri Awasthi |Jess Yuan |Angela Peñaredondo

Jess Yuan is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize. Her poem “Composition” was previously published in the Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio in collaboration with The Offing. Q&A conducted by Gauri Awasthi, Q&A Editor. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to this Q&A with Jess Yuan. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all our supporters in sustaining our work.
Kyong Boon Oh and Walking the Path

Sep 26, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Kimiko Hahn |Ladan Osman

Audio of Oh chanting in tongues, which is part of her process when working with wire and stone: https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0.Kyong-Boon-Oh-for-Offing.mp3◆I had set out on my way to find a waterfall. I had walked and walked through the desert. And suddenly I realized that I forgot why I had searched for the waterfall. Then even I forgot the fact that I had searched for the waterfall. Only walking itself remained.
My mother’s scrapbook found while I was looking for inspiration

Sep 24, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Lilly Dancyger |Lupe Mendez |Deborah Thompson

What I want, more than I want a child or a childfree life, is to make a decision and feel sure it was the right one. This is a choice. This is the insult. This is carelessness of a system and a society.