Compose Journal

Update: Our Spring 2015 issue is now live! Read it here. Our Spring 2015 issue is just around the corner, and it’s shaping up to be a great one! Right now we’re preparing all our edited pieces and will send out final proofs to our contributors shortly. We hope to publish the issue before the…

Last week we welcomed Eva Langston to our masthead as our new features editor. Eva was one of the contributors to our inaugural issue back in Spring 2013. You can read that story, “Silver Man,” here. Eva Langston received her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2009, the same year she won 3rd place…

You might’ve seen our recent posting for a fiction director and a features editor. Well, the competition for the features editor position is still open, but we’ve found just the right fiction director to join our team. Introducing Kat Gonso Kat Gonso is a full-time lecturer at Northeastern University, where she holds a dual appointment as…

UPDATE: Please note that both of these positions have now been filled. Compose Journal has exciting opportunities available for a features editor and a fiction director. Before we tell you more about the positions, we want you to know that people have been saying some pretty nice things about us and our work. Things like . . .…

Read our Fall 2014 issue. Our reading period for Fall 2014 is now over and we’re working hard to publish the issue before the end of October.   If you submitted work to us and have yet to receive a response, that means we’re considering your work for the Spring 2015 issue. Thank you for your…

You’ll be pleased to know that we at Compose are working hard to publish our third issue by the end of April. Our editing phase is now complete, and we’re laying out the issue, uploading everything to our website, and preparing to send out galleys so we can make final corrections. If you haven’t already,…

The reading period for our Spring 2014 issue is now over, and we’re completely honoured and humbled to say we’ve received nearly 700 submissions since last June! If you submitted work to us and have not yet received a response, we’ll keep your piece in the queue (unless you withdraw it from our submissions manager) to…

UPDATE: We’ve just launched our Fall 2013 issue! You can read it here. Things have been pretty intense around the journal these last few weeks, but we’re nearly ready to publish our second issue. In the meantime, please check out our list of fabulous contributors (in alphabetical order). Browse their publications and websites, and we…