Year: 2026
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‘I Will Go Like The Setting Sun’ by Rodingpuii
i want to leave this world like the setting sunto not disrupt the day as i golet the wives chatter on till they must get on with supperand the buses…
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Book Review of Jyotish Chalil Gopinathan’s ‘Almanac of the Sickle Moon’
Poetry always holds much more than what we see on the surface. It’s like a vast sea, and usually, we are only ever able to decipher a fraction of its…
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Call for Submissions : Issue 11 (Summer 2026)
The Hemlock Journal is delighted to announce that submissions are now open for Issue 11 (Summer 2026) Up to Issue 10, we offered our contributors publication in our print and…
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Issue 11 Announcement: From Now On, We will Pay our Contributors
The Hemlock Journal is delighted to announce that submissions for Issue 11 are going to open on June 1st, which will be published worldwide in print, digital, and eBook editions. …
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Interview with Fiction Contest Winners: Bernardo C. Vidal Jr.
Bernardo C. Vidal Jr. was among the writers whose story was shortlisted for the Fiction Writing Contest “Call of the Wild” organised by The Hemlock Journal in collaboration with Remington…
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‘These Books Were Not for Reading’ by David Margolin
Even though the pages in these books were blank, opening a new one made me happy. The pages were crisp, clean, fresh, and inviting. They were unspoiled–waiting eagerly to serve…
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‘Boxer at Rest’ by Ivars Balkits
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, butto escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. –Marcus Aurelius How tiredness looks. Slumped-over…
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Book Review of Priyanka Bhandarkar’s ‘Ink Play’
Writing within the confines of a daily prompt is an exercise in relinquishing control. While we often believe we are the architects of our own narratives, Priyanka Bhandarkar’s Ink Play…
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Submissions Open: Poetry Writing Contest “Still I Rise: Voices of Women from around the World”
The Hemlock Journal proudly announces that submissions for Poetry Writing Contest, 2026 ‘Still I Rise: Voices of Women from around the World’ are now open. Writers from around the world…
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