Year: 2025
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Issue 09 (Winter 2025) is here!
The Hemlock Journal proudly presents Issue 09 (Winter 2025), our most geographically diverse and visually rich issue so far: Writers and artists from across the world come together in these…
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Jonathan Chibuike Ukah Interview : ‘Be yourself. Every individual is unique’
Jonathan Chibuike Ukah was among the poets whose poems were shortlisted from The Poetry Writing Contest 2025 organized by The Hemlock Journal. His poem ‘Love in the Times of Hunger’…
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Discount on Fiction (Short Story) Contest Entry Fee!
The Hemlock Journal Announces 20% Discount on Fiction Writing Contest Entry Fee The Hemlock Journal invites writers to answer the Call of the Wild with a special limited-time discount on…
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Review of Aditi Dasgupta’s ‘Language Has No Homeland’
Aditi Dasgupta’s Language Has No Homeland is not merely a collection of poems – it is a multilingual act of remembering, resisting, and returning. It is remarkable for how it…
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Review of Anita Desai’s ‘In Custody’
I read Anita Desai‘s In Custody (published in 1984) back in 2019. It wasn’t an accidental read; it was one of the books to be read for our post-graduation under…
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‘Great Things Lie Low and Rest Content’ by Tim Conley
Whispered in the palace courtyard, three wild rumours about the reclusive young Emperor. The first had it that he was, as they say, a child of nature, or,…
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‘Crete’ by Neil Agnew
Verdant vistas lie before mountains of stone that solemnly watch over. The ridge’s message is clear: nothing beyond here. Patches of variegated green- and dun-colored grass sewn onto the land. White…
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City, Food and Women: A Literary Essay on ‘Ami Kolkatar Rosogolla’ by Srijani Dutta
This essay examines the song “Ami kolkatar Rosogolla” from a postcolonial perspective by displaying the relationship between city and food. Rosogolla is an Indian food which can be primarily found…
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