HOME – Mini Issue F/W 2025

Welcome Home! Our inaugural mini issue features original poetry and fiction submissions that explore the myriad ways we conceptualize, build, love, and loathe the homes we come from, move to, miss, and move within. Together, these pieces create a mosaic of locality, all employing unique means to foreground settings and spaces often though of as ‘backgrounds’.

Home can be a tricky place to think with, as it is often the literal and metaphorical foundation of ourselves. We hope that these pieces inspire you to consider your own connections to the places that raised you, tore down your walls, sheltered you, and so on. Most of all, we hope you enjoy reading!

-ARC Editorial Team

FICTION

‘Bicicleta’ by Amanda Tien

‘Vernon’ by Callie Ann Marsalisi

‘Storm Within’ by G.R. Hastings

POETRY

‘Running Home’ by Sarah Heins

‘Black Records’ by Donovan Harrell

‘The Sea’ by Magda Andrews-Hoke

‘Tastes Like Home’ by Sophia Ogden

‘Two Places’ by Isabella Marx

‘For The Ones Who Live Above’ by Alex Miller