For this first issue of Meniscus for 2026, poets and stories approach ideas of grief, estrangement, ageing, and the fragile work of connection: between parent and child, between partners, between the living and the dead, or between the self and a world that has become unfamiliar. Even when the settings are domestic or ordinary, many of the stories in particular open onto something more unsettling, uncanny, speculative, or darkly comic.
Read Volume 14, Issue 1 of Meniscus, here.
The new issue of Meniscus is crammed with poems and short stories and flash fiction, all of them reflecting the imaginations, voices and observations of writers who are doing what writers do: translating the world into text. The writers published here hail from across the globe: from the Americas, the UK and Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. They hold various identities, bring various levels of prior experience in writing, and work their genres in a multitude of ways. This stunning range of experiences and contexts mean they produce a kaleidoscopic swirl through the possibilities of language, the multiplicities of ways of telling, and the performativity enabled by creative writing, thinking and practice.
Read the latest edition via the Meniscus website here.
