About This Issue

(unlabeled) is a collection of work that lives just outside definition—poems and pieces that resist easy categorization, that linger in the space between naming and knowing. Centered around themes of identity, becoming, queerness, and self-recognition, this inaugural issue gathers voices that are still unfolding, still questioning, still in motion.

There is no single way to arrive at yourself. Some of these pieces move through memory, some through desire, some through language that feels almost-but-not-quite sufficient to hold what it’s trying to say. Together, they form a kind of chorus—fragmented, searching, and deeply human. This issue is less interested in answers than in the act of asking, less concerned with labels than with the lived experience beneath them.

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Nicky Bennett, Editor-in-Chief

Nicky Bennett is the Editor-in-Chief of Not Quite Right Literary Magazine. He is an American poet and essayist, currently based in New Jersey. His work primarily explores emotion, identity, and becoming. He has published several books of essays and poems, including his most recent work, “every feeling i could name.” Nicky earned an MFA from Rutgers University, and you can connect with him on Instagram @nicky.bennett.writes

Contributors

(Alphabetical by Last Name)

  • Prudence Brooks
  • John Grey
  • Magdolna Koren
  • Chloe La Vada
  • Leaves Left
  • Sandra Beth Levy
  • Samantha Lucia
  • Keizer Rae
  • Autumn Ray
  • Oliver Rose
  • Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
  • Pete Strong
  • Ella B. Winters
  • Toni Young
  • @QuarterPastThree

About Not Quite Right

Not Quite Right is a literary magazine dedicated to work that resists neat categorization—writing that exists in the in-between, the unresolved, the becoming. We’re especially interested in voices exploring identity, queerness, and the complexity of lived experience.

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Submissions for our next issue, “fixed forms (loosely)” will open soon.
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