Vote for Your Favorite Chapters from September

Cave Writing Magazine is excited to announce that we will be releasing our first ever print publication in August 2026. This publication will consist of six total chapters—one from each of our publication cycles, as voted on by readers like you!

Voting will be open from Monday, November 3rd to Friday, November 7th. Vote to see your favorite chapters from September in print using the link below!

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What is Cave Writing Magazine?

Cave Writing is an online literary magazine for the University of Iowa focusing on the publication of single, stand-alone chapters from longer fiction.

This literary journal is written, produced, edited, and published by undergraduate/graduate students enrolled at the University of Iowa and working with the Magid Center for Writing.

Chapters

Only chapters (1,500-5,000 words) will be accepted in Cave Writing, whether it be a stand-alone chapter from a longer work or not; whether it's Fantasy, Auto-Fiction, or Non-Fiction; or it's the first chapter, the last chapter, or from somewhere in the middle of the story. All chapters must have enough context that the reader isn't lost, or bit of explanatory text at the start of their piece to help provide this context.