Placeholder cover — final art to be selected from our Cover Art Competition
- Coming Fall 2026
- The Inaugural Issue
- September / October 2026
- Our debut issue arrives this fall: the first collection of stories, poems, and art we’ve judged worthy of the top shelf. We’re reading submissions and choosing our cover now. Check back this fall for the full issue, or be part of it.
- Poetry · Fiction · Art · Photography · Essays
We publish the kind of writing you return to -- stories, poems, and art worthy of the top-shelf.
A first look at the voices joining our debut.
In Conversation: K.M. Weiland — We talk craft and story with the award-winning author of Structuring Your Novel and Creating Character Arcs in an exclusive interview, coming in the debut issue.
Contributor spotlight: KG Newman — Poet. A Denver Post sportswriter by trade and a poet on the page, KG Newman joins our inaugural issue.
Read his spotlight → https://topshelfliterarymagazine.substack.com/p/the-sportswriter-who-writes-like