PHIL LIT Journal WINTER‘25 Issue2. Vol.№1
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As we head deeper into winter, we want to take a moment to thank you for being here — for reading, sharing, submitting, voting, attending events, and growing this literary home alongside us. Every view, every forward, every kind word truly matters, and we feel that support deeply.
Shipping Update: We are currently finalizing fulfillment details and logistics for our new print partner for physical copies and contributor copies to make international shipping possible and are on track to do so for 2026.
Nonprofit Status Update: We’re also excited to share that PHIL LIT is now a registered nonprofit, with our official charity status expected at the beginning of 2026. This will allow us to expand our community programs, educational initiatives, and philanthropic publishing efforts even further. We can’t wait to step into this next chapter with you.
Welcome Our New Prose Editor: We are thrilled to welcome our new Prose Editor, Farris Frances to the PHIL LIT editorial team. Please join us in giving them a warm welcome here:
Community Book Fair: Each issue closes with a curated list of fellow CLMP journals and the newest books by our contributors, created to celebrate and support our shared literary community. If you have appeared in PHIL LIT, please feel free to add your latest work so we can support you. Add Your Book
Thank you again for standing with us, for championing literature, and for helping us keep this space fearless & human.
With gratitude,
PHIL LIT JOURNAL
EVENTS
1. Contributor Reading — Friday, Dec 19th @ 3PM ET.
Join us to celebrate our Winter contributors, and to hear them read their work!
Join Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82647398966
2. SPRING ‘26 Submissions are OPEN
We keep the queue moving—our aim is to shorten the submission-jail response lag that so many writers experience. Upcoming loose THEME: “The Question of Care: Ethics, empathy, and the burden of tenderness.”
Always Free to Submit to Open Reading Periods (Dec 1st — Feb 15th)
3. WINTERS Reader’s Choice Awards - Voting is Open
The top 3 reader-selected poems from each issue will be featured across all media outlets, published in a special section in the PHIL LIT Poetry Anthology*, and sent a contributor copy. Voting opens on pub-day and will close three weeks before the next Issue release date.
*Annual PHIL LIT Poetry Anthology are included in active paid memberships, and will be published every August. Pre-order Pricing will be available until June 1st. (pre-order your book here if not already a paid subscriber, and paid subscribers should fill out the shipping form on their welcome email)
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PHIL LIT is a nonprofit, quarterly journal, with an annual Poetry Anthology.
The PHIL in PHIL LIT stands for both PHILosophy and PHILanthropy; our guiding philosophy is human-loving. Our mission is to uplift the human spirit while remaining honest about the realities we face and resisting the scarcity mindsets and fear-driven narratives that so often define our era.
Our journal promotes writing that interrogates the world and engages with philosophical, metaphysical, ethical, and existential themes without sacrificing beauty, craft, surprise, or risk.
With gratitude,
PHIL LIT Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Lauren Geiser Poetry Editor: Alix Klingenberg Prose Editor: Farris Frances Founding Editor/Creative Director: NJ. Simat
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Honored to be part of this issue. Thank you for your work — you’re fantastic. 🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️