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Tint is a biannual online literary journal for writers who write in English as their non-native language 📚🖋️
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@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT NONFICTION // Jean-Luke Swanepoel was born in South Africa, and he currently lives in California with his husband. His sophomore novel, The Book of David, was published in January 2025. Read his flash nonfiction at tintjournal.com/flash-nonfic....
Art: "Monarchs" by Atzin Garcia
@tintjournal.bsky.socialYou're an ESL writer and waiting for your chance to submit to Tint Journal? Get ready to share your pieces with us from October 12 onward! Please make yourself acquainted with our submission guidelines and make sure that your submission includes a title page and only one text per category.
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT Q&A // Writing gave Mileva Anastasiadou a place where she could make sense of emotions, memories and experiences by turning them into stories.
Learn more at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTint Journal is OPENING for submissions (art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction) in 1 WEEK. Submissions following our guidelines at tintjournal.com (link in bio) will be considered for our 17th issue, Tint Spring '27. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT FICTION // Liu Yuniang (they/them) is a Chinese-Indonesian undergraduate student, poet, writer, and editor currently based in Tokyo. They have been published in several literary journals and magazines. Read their poem at tintjournal.com/flash-fictio....
Art: "Warm Waters" by Marta Zubieta
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT IN CONVERSATION // "Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni invites us to look beyond that reverence and encounter Sita as a woman — one who questions, endures, and is shaped by the trials imposed upon her." - Jana Yin
Read the full review at tintjournal.com/review/the-w....
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT Q&A // Jay C. Alexander claims to be a walking contradiction: an aphantasic daydreamer. So when Jay was in sixth grade, they figured they could grab an extra notebook and ruin their hand by writing in their free time.
Learn more about the author at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
@tintjournal.bsky.socialALL Tint Fall '25 full-length recordings are now available at tintjournal.com! Can't find it on the website? Simply check out the archive section 😉 If you'd like to purchase a Tint Fall '26 full-length recording, head over to our Ko-fi page at ko-fi.com/tintjournal 💜
@tintjournal.bsky.socialOlivia Samur writes about family, identity, and the spaces between cultures. She studies Economics and Law & Politics at the University of Miami, where she also writes for The Miami Hurricane. Read her essay at tintjournal.com/essay/ginger....
Art: "Fragmented Pulse" by Mukul Chandra Barman
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT Q&A // Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri's favorite book as a child was "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day" by Nikki Giovanni. He encountered it through his English teacher. Learn more about the author of "Ars Poetica of Holding the Night" (Tint Fall '26, Nurture) at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTint Journal is proud to announce that former contributor L. Vocem's book "The Air Beneath Her Feet" (Pierian Springs Press) was awarded the 2025 PEN/America Bare Life Review Grant. Congratulations, L. Vocem! 🎊
Find L. Vocem's novel in stories at pierianspringspress.com/the-air-bene....
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT POETRY // Chelsey Keith Ignacio is a Filipino poet and editor, with works published in Cordite Poetry Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. Read her poem "generational healthy recipe" at tintjournal.com/poetry/gener....
Art: "Offering" by Anna Kirby
@tintjournal.bsky.socialTINT IN CONVERSATION // "How did Korean women in the 1920s, a time when Korea was occupied by Japan, manage to pursue education and freedom in a traditional patriarchal society?" - Joyce Bou Charaa
Read the full review at tintjournal.com/review/korea....
@tintjournal.bsky.socialWe want to thank all writers and artists who shared their work with us and agreed to publish their stories, their poems or their artworks with Tint Journal in this special edition "Nurture" #showyourtint 💜
@tintjournal.bsky.socialWith issue 16, we can now call 88 locales officially tinted! We send out a very warm welcome to the writers with locales in and beyond Albania and Indonesia. Welcome to the Tint community!
Visit tintjournal.com and check our interactive map on the homepage to find out if your locale is listed.
@tintjournal.bsky.socialIssue Fall '26 "nurture" ☀️🪴 The latest issue of Tint Journal is here! Find all texts online and for free at tintjournal.com, and support us with a small donation if you can ♥ Thank you for joining us on our tinted journey and for making the literary scene a more fun, open and colorful place!
@tintjournal.bsky.social7 DAYS until the release of Tint Fall '26 "nurture"! This theme encapsulates more than just topics of nature. Our ESL writers in this issue challenge typical views of nurture, opening our eyes to the many forms that shape our societies and inter-species habitats. Are you ready? Because we are 🌟
@tintjournal.bsky.socialWake us up when August ends because there’s one thing that we just *can’t* miss this September: Tint Fall ‘26 “nurture” releasing on September 10, 2026! SAVE THE DATE and look forward to reading diverse ESL perspectives on the theme of “nurture” ✨
