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September 1st, "Celestial Bodies: Honoring the Stars, the Moon, and the Sky” launches. 🌙

In many Indigenous understandings, the sun & moon hold complementary presences: the sun as a male being, carrying dynamic, life-sustaining energy and offering protection from monsters; the moon as a female presence, associated with gentleness, calm, and nurturing.

This issue brings together Indigenous stories and images. Stories from the stars, new imaginings, and stories that emerge from the darkness. We also unveil the winner of our Indigenous Creative Nonfiction Prize, alongside the work of our featured artist, whose vision and practice helped shape the tone of this issue, inviting us to look upward, inward, and into the spaces between light and darkness.

Let these stories ground you back. Back to the sky. Back to the darkness. Back to yourself. 🌑✨ by @chapterhousejournal

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Between dust and memory, Jake Skeet speaks of HORSES, not only as creatures, but as echoes, symbols, spirits moving through language.

In this conversation, the author of HORSES opens the gate to his creative process: the imagery, the silences, the stories carried in hoof beats across the page.

An interview about writing what haunts us, what carries us, and what refuses to be tamed. Read more at the link in bio on our IG page. by @chapterhousejournal

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A museum of unnatural histories: glass cases filled with grief, inheritance, memory, and myth. In her review of Annie Wenstrup’s The Museum of Unnatural Histories, Oona Uishama Narváez traces the choreography of what we preserve, and what still breathes beneath preservation.

Read our review at the link in bio on our Instagram page. by @chapterhousejournal

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Some stories wait until they know they will be met with care.

We’ve extended the Indigenous Creative Nonfiction Prize to July 7. And now, every submission will receive editors’ feedback.

If you’ve been carrying a story that belongs to your family, your community, your language, your land, or your own becoming, we hope you’ll share it.

And if someone in your circle is the keeper of stories, let them know. Pass this along. Tell your relatives. We would be honored to read their work.

Deadline: July 7. Every submission includes editors’ feedback. by @chapterhousejournal

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What belongs in a museum? What gets labeled “natural,” and who decides what is left behind?

In this brilliant conversation between our Features Editor Rey M. Rodríguez and Annie Wenstrup, author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories, poetry becomes archive, resistance, memory, and future-making. Moving through Indigenous futurism, political spaces, and the uneasy borders between the natural and unnatural, the interview invites us to reconsider the stories institutions preserve, and the ones still speaking beyond their walls.

Read the full interview at link in bio. ✨ by @chapterhousejournal

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We are drifting deeper into the constellation of our Summer 2026 issue, Celestial Bodies: Honoring the Stars, the Moon, and Sky.

As we launch the Indigenous Creative Nonfiction Prize, we’re honored to introduce the guiding star for this year’s selection.

Guest Judge Cynthia J. Sylvester, born into the Kiyaa’áanii Clan for the Bilagáana Clan and an enrolled member of the Diné, brings a luminous and grounded vision to the work ahead. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, she is the author of The Half-White Album (University of New Mexico Press, 2023), winner of Best LGBTQ+ Book at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.

Her work moves like starlight across identity, memory, and belonging, exactly the kind of gravity this prize was built to orbit. The Indigenous Creative Nonfiction Prize continues its mission this season, now with Cynthia J. Sylvester helping guide the constellation.

Submit at link in our IG bio. by @chapterhousejournal

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Transmission incoming from Chapter House Journal:

For our Summer 2026 issue, Celestial Bodies, we’re opening a new submission portal in the stars.

Signal Window: May 1 – June 30, 2026
Upload portal: Submittable, linked in our IG bio

We’re calling in interviews and reviews orbiting Indigenous writers, thinkers, and scholars, voices moving through knowledge systems, story fields, and living constellations.

What we’re tuning our instruments for:
• Interviews with Indigenous writers, artists, scholars, and cultural workers
• Reviews of books by Indigenous authors published within the last 5 years
• Work that engages theme, story, and voice with care, context, and relational gravity

Accepted transmission formats:
• Text (interviews or reviews)
• Audio (captured conversations from the field)
• Video (visual essays / recorded transmissions)

Send us your signals. We’re listening across deep space. by @chapterhousejournal

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Submissions open May 1st through June 30th for the Indigenous Creative Nonfiction Prize, part of the Chapter House Journal Summer 2026 issue: Celestial Bodies 🌙✨

On April 1, 2026, NASA launched Artemis II, sending a crew on a nine-day journey looping the moon, sharing images, sound, and story back to Earth. A reminder: we are only a small part of an immense, living history of Nihimá Nahasdzáán, of Yethi’nisténha Ohóntsya, of Uŋčí Makhá, and of all our relatives whose names for Earth are not recorded.

We invite Indigenous voices to write into the cosmos, creative nonfiction that orbits memory, land, language, and relation. Tell us what the sky holds. Tell us what Earth remembers.

How do your stories move between ground and galaxy? What truths return when we look outward, and inward, at once?

Send us your work. Let it travel like signal, like prayer, like light.

Submit via Submittable, or link in bio on our IG page. by @chapterhousejournal

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Submissions are about to launch.

From May 1st through June 30th, we’re opening our channels for the Chapter House Journal – Summer 2026 Issue. This season’s theme: Celestial Bodies ✨

We’re calling on your constellations of thought, your stardust-lined poems, lunar-soaked prose, and sky-bound imaginings. Trace the gravity between words. Map the quiet pull of the moon. Burn bright, collapse, or expand, just don’t stay earthbound.

What does the universe whisper to you when the world goes silent? What stories flicker in your personal galaxy?

Send us your work and let it drift across our pages like light traveling through the dark.

The cosmos is vast. Your voice belongs in it. Submit via Submittable, or link in bio on our IG page. by @chapterhousejournal

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We’re honored to nominate “Arizona Abecedarian” by Cheyenne Dakota Williams and “ka naʻi aupuni” by Donavan Kamakani Albano for the 2026 Best New Poets anthology.

Two poems that carry land, language, and lineage forward with care and power. Congratulations to these writers. ✨ by @chapterhousejournal

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✨ Our Winter Issue is here ✨

Our most robust edition yet, featuring a vast array of writers: Reflections on Gerald Vizenor’s career, an interview with Brandon Hobson on his new book, a review of Beverly Morris’s work on Unangan history, and more.

As we write, we also reflect. Memories, whether inherited or lived, explore relationships, encounters, and cultural ripples. Who do we see in the water’s reflection? Whose voices echo in the quiet moments? These writers meet their own gaze, asking us to do the same.

📬 Read the Winter Issue now. Link in (our Instagram) bio. by @chapterhousejournal

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8 months ago

✨Chapter House Journal Community✨

A small note carried on the wind: Chapter House Journal is being considered for the Best Lit Mags of 2025 by @chillsubs_official and the doors to voting have opened.

For a moment, readers and writers everywhere can choose up to five magazines that moved them, startled them, held them. They can leave little constellations of tags like:

💎 Hidden Gem
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🔥 Bold & Weird
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📚 New-Writer Friendly
❤️ I Just Love Them!

These words don’t disappear. They become part of a magazine’s story, quiet, permanent, glowing on the Chill Subs page.

And for the journals that rise to the top, a few gifts wait:
💰 a $300 offering
📣 a shout carried to 100,000 readers
📱 a celebration across 90,000 more
🌐 a place among the Best Lit Mags of 2025

If Chapter House Journal has ever met you at the right time, held your work, or warmed your imagination, we’d be honored if you’d take a minute to vote.

👉 Vote: chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag-awards
(Link in bio.)

Thank you for being part of this strange, bright little house we’re building together. 📖✨ by @chapterhousejournal

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