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http://cahoodaloodaling.com cahoodaloodaling is a collaborative publication. Our quarterly issues are shaped by an eclectic staff and a revolving guest editor. We also have varying calls for submissions, based on either a theme or a style, and we love to...

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New Staff Member! Emily Blair, Associate Editor

New Staff Member! Emily Blair, Associate Editor

We are excited to announce that Emily Blair has joined cahoodaloodaling as an  Associate Editor!

Emily is a queer Appalachian poet and blue-collar scholar. Originally from Fort Chiswell, Virginia (you may have stopped there for gas once), she now lives in central North Carolina, where she teaches first-year writing, literature, and creative writing at a community college. She earned a BA in…

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2019 Best of the Net Nominations

2019 Best of the Net Nominations

Congratulations this year’s Best of the Net nominations!

  “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Kookaburra” by Melinda Jane – The Poet MJ

“Trading Beads” by Yvonne

“Vulnerability Study” by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi

“Tasha Yar At Her Best” by Shanti Weiland

“Your Addiction Has Affected Me in the Following Ways” by L Mari Harris

“I Blues tha Rain, 40 Days & 40 Nights” by henry 7. reneau, jr.

“On the Way To…

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Issue #28 - Witness

Issue #28 – Witness

When I started thinking about the theme for this issue of the journal, I couldn’t get my mind off “witnessing.” Maybe because sometimes I feel like all I can do is witness and witness and witness the things this country is doing, has done, and will do to my people and all people.

Read the full guest editor letter from Ashley M. Jones

Editor’s Spotlight: On Time by Xavier Burgin

Trading Beadsby…

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XLIV Pushcart Prize & 2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations

XLIV Pushcart Prize & 2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations

Congratulations to our XLIV Pushcart and 2019 Best Small Fictions nominations! Pushcart

“Only the Gentle, Only the Strong” by Samuel J Fox “Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell “Don’t Feed the Yao Guia!” by Colee Wong “Queynte” by John Repp “Tasha Yar At Her Best” by Shanti Weiland “Instructions for Those Who Have Learned Not to Cry” by Alex Vigue

  BSF

“Bad Trip” by Meg Tuite “‘Monolith, the Face of Half…

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Issue #27 - Joy Sticks

Issue #27 – Joy Sticks

During Stalin’s rule, poet Anna Akhmatova memorized her poems because she was afraid to commit them to paper. The written poem was evidence of a crime—the insistence on thinking and feeling for herself. To write joy in a time of fear is an act of resistance and repudiation.

Read the full guest editor letter from Alina Stefanescu

Guest Editor’s Spotlight: Impressionable by Norah Priest

Mushrooms…

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2018 Best of the Net Nominations

2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Congratulations to our nominations for this year’s Best of the Net!

Poetry “Lineage” by Jay Douglas “Neo” by Tyrek Greene “Peter Discovers Wrinkles in His Shadow” by Shahé Mankerian “(of use)” by Megan Merchant “Two Eggs” by Rebecca Schumejda “The Immigrant, 1909” by Kenneth Wolman

Fiction “Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell “Rapture of the Deep” by CJ Spataro

Creative Nonfiction “Only the Gentle, Only…

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cahoodaloodaling Turns Six!

cahoodaloodaling turned 6 this May and I can hardly believe it. We’ve been incredibly lucky, both with who has volunteered time on staff and the amazing submissions we’ve received for our themed calls. With 26 issues under our belt, we’re excited to move into our 7th year!

We’ve had some recent staff additions I’d love to take a second to brag about. Sam Singleton, our Assistant Poetry Editor, is…

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Issue #26 - The Lyric Essay

Issue #26 – The Lyric Essay

[ct_dropcap color=”” style=”normal” ]T[/ct_dropcap]hat which at first appears to be a lyric essay may be something else, just as the converse may also be true. And that which at first appears real, under scrutiny, demonstrates a deficit of reality. So writers use language to shore up cordons around the insufficiently-real object or phrase or event precisely so that she may vivisect it into a…

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2017 Bettering American Poetry and 2018 Best New Poets Nominations

2017 Bettering American Poetry and 2018 Best New Poets Nominations

Congratulations to our 2017 Bettering American Poetry and 2018 Best New Poets nominations! BAP “When I Bite My Tongue I Think of the Year I Was Addicted to Xanax” by Siaara Freeman “She Called Me a Dirty Jew” by Phyllis Wax “This Is a Serious Consideration” by Megan Merchant BNP “Lineage” by Jay Douglas “All-American Roommate” by M. Wright

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Issue #25 - Queer Spaces

[ct_dropcap color=”” style=”normal” ]I[/ct_dropcap]t means so many things to be a part of the queer community. By some, we are feared for the way we experience love and rarely celebrated for our expressions of it—oftentimes forcing us to keep so much of who we are to ourselves. One of my favorite lines of poetry states that “it is the voices that make me pull at / my skin this way already…

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2017 Pushcart Prize & 2018 Best Small Fictions Nominations

Congratulations to our 2017 Pushcart and 2018 Best Small Fictions nominations! Pushcart “In-Season” by Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll “She Called Me a Dirty Jew” by Phyllis Wax “The Immigrant, 1909” by Kenneth Wolman “Peter Discovers Wrinkles in His Shadow” by Shahe Mankerian “Boat Guy” by Joe Dornich “No-One Suspects Your Shoulder Blades of Wings” by Wes Jamison  BSF “End Game” by Nancy Ludmerer “The…

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Issue #24 - Solitude's Spectrum

Issue #24 – Solitude’s Spectrum

[ct_dropcap color=”” style=”square” ]S[/ct_dropcap]olitude is a part of every life, and from person to person it can mean something different and new, something dour and tragic, something essential and protected, desired, feared. When I first put into words why I felt solitude would make such a fascinating theme for an issue, I had my own unique connotation in mind, my own vision of solitude: the…

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Issue #23 – Up Yours!

Issue #23 – Up Yours!

[ct_dropcap color=”” style=”square” ]Y[/ct_dropcap]ou deserve to be angry. If you’re questioning yourself, if you think you should magically acquire a hyper-masculine stiff upper lip and stop “overreacting,” if you find yourself feeling diminished just by walking on your college campus or at your office job or sitting down at a family dinner—I promise, what you’re feeling is valid. Read the full…

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PPP&P #3 Spring 2017

PPP&P #3 Spring 2017

PPP&P spotlights recently published work from our sister journals at Sundress Publications: Pretty Owl Poetry, Rogue Agent, Stirring, and Wicked Alice. Much like the astrology practiced in Telangana in which a parrot is used to pick some cards as luck for the customer, Prasanna hopes her picks will bring luck (and inspiration) to our readers.   Pretty Owl Poetry In “Room of Rind and Pith“, Grace…

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2017 Best New Poets & Bettering American Poetry Nominees

2017 Best New Poets & Bettering American Poetry Nominees

Best New Poets Nominees Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers. The anthology takes nominations from literary magazines in the United States and Canada, graduate-level writing programs in the United States and Canada, and entries from an annual open competition. For more information about the Best New Poets anthology and eligibility, visit…

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Issue #22 - Of Distance and Discord

Issue #22 – Of Distance and Discord

[ct_dropcap color=”” style=”square” ]W[/ct_dropcap]hat then are the seeds of non-spatial distance? That which isolates one from the world? The haunting pieces in cahoodaloodaling’s Winter 2017 edition attempt to unearth the answer… Read the full guest editor letter from Sade Andria Zabala. Guest Editor’s Spotlight: This Is a Serious Consideration by Megan Merchant Our Land by Sue Hyon Bae…

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Now on Tap: Submission Calls September 2016

Now on Tap: Submission Calls September 2016

Homebrew: Issue #22 – Of Distance and Discord “It is wicked & useless, — all these months & months apart from you, all these years with only a glimpse of you in the face of everybody.“ —Edna St. Vincent Millay “Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.” —Rohinton Mistry We calculate a stretch of space in kilometers and miles, but sometimes distance is constructed…

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