Writing Against the Grain - Feb 2026 - Issue #2

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Writing Against the Grain is a literary magazine dedicated to bold, unconventional, and boundary-pushing writing. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work that challenge norms, resist comfort, and question the familiar. Our focus is on voices that take risks, embrace tension, and explore the unsettling, the provocative, and the unexplored.

We seek writing that defies easy categorization — work that confronts genre expectations, disrupts narrative safety, and pushes creative limits. Writing Against the Grain exists as a space for experimentation, defiance, and artistic freedom, championing authors who dare to move beyond the expected and into the unknown.

Writing Against The Grain - February 2026 - Issue #2