quickly, quickly; immediately, immediately!
(pgm vii)
Ablanatha is an online literary & arts magazine, founded in 2025. Our name is derived from a vox magica attested in various ritual texts: intaglio gems, late antique invocations, magical lamens, and so on. Read our submission guidelines for detailed info on what we publish.
Columns
Poetry
Quite self-explanatory, the “poetry”Poetry” column publishes work by established and emerging writers. We are interested in any work that is good and thought-provoking — poetry is a sort of eros — but particularly work that employs performance or enactment (“ritual”), engages the archaeological record, plays with materiality, or otherwise wouldn’t look out of place in a grimoire.
Oneirocritica
“Oneirocritica” is unique among magazines in that we publish first-hand accounts of dreams and interpretations of dreams: the dream is a text, and we publish text and its critique. We are particularly interested in work that applies non-traditional or experimental modes of analysis to dreams — not just heavy-handed references to Dream Moods. We want dreams read under Marxist, structural and poststructural, feminist, (de/anti)colonial, or whatever critical lens you have at your disposal.
Difference and repetition
The “Difference and repetition” column republishes work from other publications. The “Difference and repetition” column republishes work from other publications. The “Difference and repetition” column republishes work from other publications.