Who we are...
We live in a time of deep contradiction: hyperconnectivity and isolation, performative vulnerability and real pain, commodified individuality and suppressed difference. Expression is one of the few tools we have left that can hold these contradictions without flattening them.
Our magazine doesn’t shy away from complexity. We publish work that is raw, surreal, personal, postmodern - pieces that challenge structure, rupture language, and expose the paradoxes that shape our lives. And in doing so, we invite not just readers, but participants, into a shared therapeutic space of witnessing and voicing.
Our Vision is all about...
... publishing boundary-pushing fiction, poetry, and essays that embrace contradiction and resist easy categorization.
... supporting emerging and established voices who are invested in the psycho-social power of writing.
... fostering community around the shared desire to make sense of the senseless - not by fixing it, but by expressing it.
Our magazine doesn’t shy away from complexity. We publish work that is raw, surreal, personal, postmodern - pieces that challenge structure, rupture language, and expose the paradoxes that shape our lives. And in doing so, we invite not just readers, but participants, into a shared therapeutic space of witnessing and voicing.
Our Vision is all about...
... publishing boundary-pushing fiction, poetry, and essays that embrace contradiction and resist easy categorization.
... supporting emerging and established voices who are invested in the psycho-social power of writing.
... fostering community around the shared desire to make sense of the senseless - not by fixing it, but by expressing it.
What we are looking for...
The Paradox Magazine is an independent literary magazine dedicated to exploring contradiction, ambiguity, and the beautifully fractured nature of being.
We are a home for the misfits of meaning - those who write from the margins, who twist logic into lyric, who use expression not just as a craft, but as a mode of survival, resistance, and understanding.
Founded on the belief that expression holds psychosocial value beyond aesthetics or prestige, our magazine seeks to provide a space where writers and artists can explore the paradoxes of identity, desire, society, and self.
In a world of contradiction, we see expression as a compass - not to solve the contradictions, but to move through them with intention.
We are a home for the misfits of meaning - those who write from the margins, who twist logic into lyric, who use expression not just as a craft, but as a mode of survival, resistance, and understanding.
Founded on the belief that expression holds psychosocial value beyond aesthetics or prestige, our magazine seeks to provide a space where writers and artists can explore the paradoxes of identity, desire, society, and self.
In a world of contradiction, we see expression as a compass - not to solve the contradictions, but to move through them with intention.
About our E-Zine
The e-zine offers thought-provoking essays, personal reflections, illuminating paradoxical art, poetry and prose that challenges the stagnant and stale world of norms and structures.
About our Literary Magazine
The lit mag is an annual print-on-demand magazine which features the best of the best submissions for the annual submissions period (June - September).