(Our founder and editor, moments before he was swallowed by a large sea creature and never heard from again.)

Annalemma is a literary and arts magazine published twice a year in print and weekly online. We publish short fiction, essays, art and photography.

Our mission is simple: to make reading stories exciting again. Everyone has that novel or piece of reportage that they read when they were 17 years old. The one that changed their life, the way that they saw the world. Remember those times sitting in your bedroom on the hand-me-down couch reading past midnight? Those times when you dropped the book to your lap, looked out onto the horizon and said to yourself, “God, why can’t reading be like this all the time?”

You know that feeling when you’ve found an inspiring, moving, well-told story? This is the feeling that drives us.

And, because the visual arts also possess the same life-changing properties, we incorporate our stories and essays with illustrations and photography that we are madly in love with.

Reading can speak to you again. Reading can change your life again. Reading isn’t tearfully boring anymore. You’re welcome.