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Online publication of fiction + nonfiction + serialised fiction + poetry. Our anthology of original writing and art, THESE STRANGE OUTCROPS, is out now.

Canberra, Australia
Joined March 2019
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Our new nonfiction issue is now live on our website! 🥰 We’ll be sharing individual pieces from it throughout the coming days - stay tuned! ciceronejournal.com/category… #nonfiction #literaryjournal
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Returning to Twitter to share that: 1) we are indeed still active🫀; and 2) we have just published our sixth issue! 🎉 2023 crept up on us, and we have really fallen behind with social media. But we highly recommend you check out the latest work by our authors nonetheless! 🥰
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Submissions for Issue 6 have closed. We will be in touch with all those who submitted work - keep an eye on your emails in August!
Submissions for Issue 6 open - but only for a little longer! Send us your nonfiction ✨ - All the details are at ciceronejournal.com/online-s… – Submissions close at midnight AEST on 15 July 2022. – Payment of $100 per piece published.
⏰Only 3 days until submissions close!!!⏰ – Pieces of 1,000 to 3,500 words – For this issue, we are accepting work from Australian and Australia-based women and femme-aligned non-binary writers only – Submissions close midnight AEST on 15 July 2022 ciceronejournal.com/online-s…
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THIS IS JUST TO SAY We have fixed the photo on our Issue 6 submissions page and which you were probably confused by Forgive us it was extended to the 15th of July #writing #submissionsopen
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✨PAID WRITING OPPORTUNITY - SUBMISSIONS OPEN✨ Time flies - and we are back! For Issue 6, we are open to submissions from women and femme-aligned non-binary writers on all topics and themes and in all nonfiction forms. Details: ciceronejournal.com/online-s… #womenwriters #nonfic
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“Rampant delusion builds resilience, but it can be at the cost of your own sanity and self-awareness….” An insightful and beautifully written piece by @ninaoyama - you should read it killyourdarlings.com.au/arti…
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Many thanks to Jim Harrington for interviewing our editors in the recent 'Six Questions For Cicerone Journal' post. If you've ever wondered about where our journal started or what we look for in pieces that we publish, check it out! sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com…
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Check out the Issue 5 recap written by our editors! Here we describe how we went about selecting pieces for publication. Special thanks to Arts ACT who provided us with the funding that enabled us to pay our writers for their work. ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/… #literarymagazine
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‘Do you really think I’m just 432 pages of fiction? I’m a compendium. I’m part story, part bloody lecture. I even bore myself sometimes, I’m so full of minutiae.’ FRABJOUS by @writer_gibbs is written from the POV of a book! Funny, witty, & unmissable❤️📖 ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/…
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Applications are open for the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship to develop young writers & editors from around Aus! Applicants must be a person of an underrepresented gender & be aged 16 to 30 Applications close 11.59pm AEDT Sun 16 Jan 2022 expressmedia.org.au/programs…
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“Every day people clamour to see our shows. Performance is part of my soul […] Make me laugh, make me gasp, make me smile! The audience demands it.” Rebecca Fung has written an unsettling, unforgettable story in ‘Make Me Smile’. You should read it. ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/…
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“Her message lights up the comms panel like sunrise over Huygens crater, illuminating the starkness across two hundred million kilometers: ‘How’s our new planet?’” ‘Rocket Man’ by @jk_ullrich: a short story that packs a big punch 💫 ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/… #shortstory #writing
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‘Bottled Spirits’ by @JessNelsonTyers - a whimsical, inventive, moving piece of short fiction. The perfect mid-week tonic! 🧪⚗️✨ ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/… #shortfiction #shortstory #speculativefiction #writing
‘Once upon a time.’ Curse your scaly feet, that’s how the two-leggeds tell their senseless tales. […] earth-bellied start stories with “Once upon a stone, a sea, a spring meadow, a fish’s back.” How we enjoyed Romy Wenzel’s ‘Blue-tongue’! ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/… #shortstory
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We are honoured to announce that the winner of #TheRichellPrize2021 is @SimoneAJordan for her work, Tell Her She's Dreamin'. Thanks to the Richell family, @EmergingWriters and all of the writers who entered their work. Watch the announcement here: fb.watch/92R4iUVtc8/
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“‘I don’t feel well,’ the boy replied. He swallowed, before looking up. He was not old enough to articulate exactly what his feelings were, but he felt the looming apprehension all the same.” ‘The Unchanging, the Temporary’ by Harvey Liu is now live! 🪐 ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/…
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“…when I arrived I picked up items at random just to feel the reassuring weight of the real world, unreplicable in dreams.” ‘All My Tuesdays’ by Laura J Fitzwilson: a queer and curious folkloric tale. Read on… ciceronejournal.com/issue-5/… #shortfiction #shortstory #writing #write
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