MASKS LITERARY MAGAZINE
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Featured Artist: Natalie Arriola

Natalie Arriola is a fine art photographer from Fresno who creates surrealist works. In her series Enantiodromia, she explores concepts about the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind. Read Meg Jerit's full interview here.

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Alexis MacIsaac

2023 Story Award Winner

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Rhen Kent-Jaynes

2023 Poetry Award Winner

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Meesha Goldberg

2023 Spotlight Artist

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Laura Hawbaker & Chris Wiberg | Interview

Author Kim Chinquee has published fiction and nonfiction in Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, Fiction, and many others. She is also an accomplished literary editor, and her most recent novel, Pipette, explores how novels can be told in flash fiction... 

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James Callan | Nonfiction

If there is solace to be found at the zoo, it is with the red pandas. Among the bamboo shoots and tall trees there is a vertical splendor that opens out into a wide, kaleidoscopic portal...

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Pamilerin Jacob | Poetry

I’d like to be called a hole / the truth can drop into with / -out snapping its ankles, the soft / landing of the mystical, think how haloed / the entrance, light smeared like toothpaste...

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Elodie A. Roy | Fiction

It happened like this: Dr. Black was writing a study on love and autism. I cannot recall why I agreed to take part. But I accepted, and soon we were meeting every two or three weeks...

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Wade L. Griffin | Art

I was born and raised a New Orleans artist. I show up every day and hang my original art on the fence at Jackson Square in the French Quarter...

About us...

MASKS Literary Magazine is a Weisman Award-winning print and online publication founded in the spring of 2021 as part of the Columbia College Chicago Library's Aesthetics of Research Program, an ongoing series of exhibits, events, and other shenanigans dedicated to exploring the role that libraries play in creative community building. MASKS provides a space in which emerging writers and artists can engage in the artistic process. 
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MASKS Literary Magazine is sponsored by the Columbia College Chicago Library and was founded as part of the Aesthetics of Research Program-an ongoing series of exhibits, events, and other shenanigans dedicated to exploring the role that libraries play in artistic process, creative community building, and resource-sharing in the arts. 
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  • Featured
  • Issue
  • Interviews
    • Natalie Arriola
    • Kim Chinquee
    • Melissa Meier
    • Miya Turnbull
    • Molly Yingling
    • Kate Wisel
  • Submissions
    • Guidelines
    • Contests
  • About
    • Masthead
    • Our Mission
  • Buy