Sinking City

Can classic narratives be reimagined? Read Wendy BooydeGraaff’s “Back to Genesis” to experience her take on love and Eden from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Wendy BooydeGraaff’s poems have been included in Cutleaf, Barzakh, About Place Journal, Dunes Review, and anthologized in Under Her Eye (Blackspot Books), Midwest Futures: Poems & Micro-Stories from Tomorrow’s Heartland (forthcoming from Middle West Press, March 2025), and Not Very Quiet (Recent Works Press). Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, she now lives in Michigan, United States.

Have you ever thought about who might be living in your old house? Follow alongside Samantha Sapp as she wrestles with the concept of belonging and a bittersweet longing for a home that is out of reach in “Epistolary Fragments for Florida” from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Samantha Sapp is a writer and school teacher. Though she is originally from the Florida Panhandle, she now lives in the icy Midwest. Her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals, including Sinister Wisdom and MoonPark Review. You can find her on Bluesky or lost in the woods.

What does love, shoveling cat s**t, a long term relationship, and break-up all have in common? They’re all wrapped up in this letter to an ex. Read Sheena Holt’s “Alex and Holly Send Their Love” in our most recent issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Sheena Holt is a writer in Louisiana and an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans, where she is a managing editor for Bayou Magazine. You can find her creative nonfiction in Collision Literary magazine and her coverage of the dating industry at DatingNews.com. In her fiction, she writes about religion and womanhood.