Volume 2 — June 2026
A new quarterly literary journal of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction
Today, Indie Lit Journal Volume 2 drops — a free quarterly PDF publication from Indie Lit Lounge, featuring fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from independent writers who deserve to be read. Thirty-two pages and ten writers.
You can read it right here.
What’s inside Volume 2:
Poetry from
AJ Strout
Llewellyn McKernan
Fiction from
Non-fiction from
Cover art by Simon Leoyd.
Every week between issues, we’ll share an excerpt from a piece in the current volume — straight to your inbox. The journal publishes four times a year. By the time we’ve worked through every piece in the current issue the next one will be ready.
We publish in March, June, September, and December, with a print anthology of selected work released annually.
Submissions for the September issue open soon.
— The Editors, Indie Lit Journal
Thank you for making room for me in Volume 2. Reading the whole issue, I was struck by how much range Fever Season holds — an elephant’s interior frenzy, a haunted house trapped in the fifties, poems about loch water and intimacy and grief, all gathered under one theme. Being counted among writers this varied feels like its own kind of gift. I’m truly grateful to be in these pages.
Wow, my favorite was "The Mark on the Skin" -- by Sienna Sharma https://substack.com/@authorsiennasharma
It was fabulous, and I had to go subscribe to her. Thanks for publishing that one. Always love to find new authors to read.