45th Parallel

45th Parallel is a literary magazine affiliated with Oregon State’s School of Literature, Writing, and Film that celebrates in-betweenness. Issue 9 now online!

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Read the online version here: https://t.co/sQsBUQnE0H

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ISSUE 10 IS ONLINE

Onward you’ll find experiments in light and photography; time explored through tragedy, narrative, & philosophy; science fiction that parallels the inhumaneness of today; and that, “in the rain / we learned a new degree of separation / meaning there was none.”

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COMING SOON: ISSUE 10

we are so excited to share this issue with you, full of brilliant pieces that take risks, challenge boundaries, and find the sublime. watch this space 🔮🔮🔮

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from our 3rd issue: “No Place for Hope” by Lita Poliakova

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From our 2nd issue: “Ten is Too Girl” by Cheyenne Black. Read the full poem on our website.

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our submission period closes tomorrow, december 15! send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art that puts the “art” in STEAM 🎨🌱💫🪐⚖️🔮📚

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From our 5th issue: “Intro to Art” by Chris Gavaler

Don’t forget to submit! We are open for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art until December 15 🩷

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our submissions are open until december 15!

for issue 10, we are especially seeking work that engages with the interdisciplinary. get experimental! talk to the moss. we’re listening👂👂👂

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From our first issue: “Course in Photographing Intimacy for a Digital Generation Desensitized by Nudes” by Ander Monson

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From our 8th issue: artworks by Patty Paine

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From our first issue: “Woman Looking at a Table” by Diane Seuss 🍐

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From our 9th issue: Tippy Canoe by Gj Gillespie

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Writers, will you answer the call?

Join @OregonState for our virtual MFA open house on October 22 and learn about our fully-funded tracks in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

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From our 5th issue: “Dairy Queen” by Jason Crawford

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From our 9th issue: “Together By Ourselves” by Maria Pianelli Blair

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From our first issue: “the man who could give birth to the boarding house” by Sean Cearley

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45th Parallel’s 9th issue is now online🩸📮♦️✂️☎️🔴🚨

Give it a read: https://t.co/Owt9PlEjyE

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Our reading period is open! 🫶

For Issue 10, we are seeking work that engages the creative spirit with outside fields of thought, such as science and all the -ologies of the world.

Learn more and submit: https://t.co/Zid4GKGSJ4

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you heard it here first 👀

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Come hang out with our editors to find out all about the perks and expectations of participating in SWLF's literary magazine

If you cannot make this meeting time, email us at [email protected], stating your genre of interest by Friday, October 27.