Angel Food is an online literary project. We aim to publish writing that would nourish and sustain the angels living among us. For submission information, please see our guidelines. For updates, please subscribe to our mailing list.

Call for submissions
Angel Food is now accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions until July 1st on the theme of DREAMS.

Think unreliable narrators, REM, foreclosed futures, haunting, being asleep on your feet, daydreaming at work, nightmares, nostalgia, pipe dreams, prophecies and premonitions, memory, horror, romance, false awakenings, a midsummer night’s delusion, a dream come true, sweet dreams, fever dreams, your wildest dreams and beyond, dream weavers, the end of the world.

The best way to get a sense for what we publish is to read previous issues, but we encourage you to interpret the theme expansively. Please do not submit flash fiction or academic pieces. Send all submissions to angelfoodmag@gmail.com with the title of your submission in the subject line.

Angel Food: The Love IssueFebruary 2025

Fiction:
There Was an Old Man by Kanyin Ajayi
Laying the Burden Down by Garrett Biggs
Bearwife by Emma

Nonfiction:
Your Revolutionary Love by Katy Burnett
Interview with Phil Elverum by Frank Falisi

Poetry:
Love is an Ambivalence That Knows No Bounds by Elisabeth Nicula
Losing the Band by Ashley D. Escobar
Nothing Holy Sits at the Other Side of Aloneness by
Nora Rose Tomas

Odds and ends Labor Romance: on Sean Baker’s Anora by Marla Cruz
October is the cruelest month by Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj
Cross my Heart: a crossword by Leonor Grave
Moonspotting: a Manifesto by Zainab Hussein
Tragedy of the Blue by Zainab Hussein
Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook: an excerpt

Angel Food Issue 3

FICTION
These are things I only tell myself by Rosamaría Roffiel, tr. by Tricia Viveros
Floating Mass by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland
Rabbits by Sarah Edwards
Echo and Bubbles by Hayden Betts
Due Diligence by James Chrisman
There Seems to Be a Polyp on Your Uterine Wall by Brianna Di Monda
My Baby in the Sink by Jules Rivera

NONFICTION
Subject-Viewer by Madison Jamar
Violets in the House of Ghosts by Audrey Robinovitz
Spam Means I Love You by Leah Rae Hulgin

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Tracy Rosenthal

POETRY
Dog Sit by Alicia Mountain
Brood XIX by Ariela Gittlen
Hunter Gather by Serena Devi
Razbliuto by Mathias Rosenzweig
I Notice You Look Like Your Father by Kai-Lilly Karpman

GADABOUT TOWN
Inside Out: What’s in a Ghost Story?

Cottin et Desgouttes, l'avion de la route, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1926

Angel Food Issue 2
FICTION
Cultural Capital by Leah Abrams
Can You Hear Me? by Grace Byron
Red in the Face by Jay Graham
Boytoy by Brendon Holder
The Story-Teller by Hanna Johansson (translated by Kira Josefsson)
The Third Year by Corley Miller

NONFICTION
Sepulcher: a Manifesto by Naomi Falk
Get it Hot by Jenna Mahale
Hunting and Fishing by Leah Mandel

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Sophie Lewis

POETRY
Two Poems by Jameson Fitzpatrick
thirty-one by Ceara Hennessey
A Lost Love Poem by Greta Knutson (translated by Noah Rawlings)
My Neighbor by Fran Matos
The Stars by Simone Weil (translated by Noah Rawlings)

GADABOUT TOWN
Inside Out: What’s in a Sex Scene?

Angel Food Issue 1
FICTION
Abu Ghraib by Aixa de la Cruz (translated by Jacob Rogers)
Cult Classic by Annabelle Johnston
Drinks on Wednesday Night by Greta Rainbow
Exposure to Light by Michelle Lyn King
Ornithology by Ali Rose Banach

ESSAYS
Return to Desire by Gabrielle Sicam
What’s in a Bag? by Mána Taylor

POETRY
After a Call with my Mother by Joana Urtasun
pitch to be your girl by Kameel Mir
Pure of Heart by Daisy Alioto

GADABOUT TOWN
Inside Out: What’s in Your Bag?

The Ladies Home Journal, 1889. Photo credit: Internet Archive.

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