About Us
We’re not just a literary magazine, we’re the photo album found on your grandparents’ coffee tables and the photo booth strips of lovers found as bookmarks in cafes scattered around the world far from home.
At Kindred, we intend to reflect the bonds fostered through love and acts of intimacy. Families are found everywhere, whether in blood relatives or in the group of friends found after moving away from home. We desire a platform for writers and readers to proudly present the small promises of tenderness and warmth found within their daily lives in union with those they love most.
Life is a long journey filled with hardship, but finding your people, planting roots, and creating traditions to last generations make it feel simpler. We invite you to sit at the dinner table of life and chat until the quiet hours of the night. Come, stay for a while— we’ve brewed coffee for you.
Submission Guidelines
Prose
Poetry
Art/Photo
Accepting fiction and nonfiction pieces up to 5,000 words.
Please submit in 12 point font and double spaced. Please submit as a word document with your name attached and a short bio.
Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged.
Accepting pieces up to 3 pages in length, double spaced and in 12 point font.
Please submit as a word document with your name attached and a short bio.
Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged.
We welcome titled art and photography submissions.
Please submit in the form of a JPEG file with your name and a short bio attached, as well as dates for any photography pieces.
Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged.
We kindly ask that you do not glorify toxic or abusive dynamics.
We welcome submissions regarding any kind of family- whether blood, found, or pet-related. Kindred is committed to an inclusive environment of love and warmth.
Issue 1 of Kindred seeks to represent the many meanings of "family" through stories of traditions, fond memories, small and large acts of love, and more. How have you recently felt most loved by your people?
Please contact the editor at ks379421@ohio.edu with any queries.
We'd love to hear from you
Please reach out with any questions- you will receive a response within 24-48 hours
