Returning Revitalized

Looking Ahead to Serpentine Vol. 3 “Season of / joy for the bee. The green will never / again be so green, so purely and lushly/ new, grass lifting its wheaty seedheads / into the wind.” – from “More Than Enough” by Marge Piercy It’s good to be back! Serpentine is coming out of hibernation

Searching for Signal: How to Get Published in Our Journal

So, you want to get published in a literary magazine. Good on you for putting yourself out there! Seriously. When we go through submissions, we keep in mind that there’s a creative soul out there who might’ve stared at that “send” button anxiously for a minute or two before wiping the sweat off their palms,

Book Review: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Check out the book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall!

Why Another Lit Journal?

Thanks to the rise of the online journal, the literary world has been flooded with thousands and thousands of new publications ranging from every topic and style imaginable. The print ones move to online or shut down, and no one reads them unless they’re trying to submit something- which is generous, considering plenty of submitting