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Issue Fall '26

Flash Fiction

Everything Finds Its Tin

by Xheni Kapllani

How alike they are: biscuits and threads, needles and butter, loneliness and sugar, boxes and houses. Tights clumped together resemble feelings, ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

i once fell in love with a girl named red

by Yuniang Liu

Her name is 朱丹 Zhu Dan. 朱 Zhu means vermillion. It’s a common Chinese surname. 丹 Dan means flaming cinnabar. In other words, her full name means ...read the full piece

"Show Me Your Eyes Let Me Read Your Soul" by Tuana Burçak Kahraman

Flash Fiction

The Party

by Elodie A. Roy

Every year before Christmas, Bill has a party. He invites the lonely hearts, the widowers and the dreamers of Moston. The haunted people he meets at ...read the full piece

"I'm Flying Through the Daytime City in the Clouds" by Nasta Martyn

Flash Nonfiction

The Ballet Dancer

by Andie Z Chen

One of my aunties — her child had died of cerebrovascular disease. When her son was sick, blood kept coming out of his nose, and she would hold a ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

The Goldfish and the Boy

by Chun Yu 俞淳

It was July 4th. I was at a party in a California garden overlooking the Pacific. Boys, loud and strong, waved nets, chasing goldfish in a small pond. ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

In the Time of the Caterpillars

by Jean-Luke Swanepoel

There were four of the caterpillars the first time I noticed them. The milkweed had been growing throughout the summer but still wasn’t of remarkable ...read the full piece

Poetry

(new year as hunger, as hands, as a house with no doors)

by Thái Nguyễn Đăng Khoa

i. the elephant in the room at dinner, we eat in silence,on plates older than us, as father’s cigarette glowslike embers, its smoke pressing the ...read the full piece

Poetry

bodhidharma

by Ajay Kumar

the color of the room is a shade of bluecalled sleep. i’m waiting beside youlike an oversoaked shirt losing color. the doctor’s rounds lynchpin the ...read the full piece

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In Conversation

Interview

A Reflection of the Past and a Collection of Love, Politics and Life - An Interview with Zama Madinana

by Yvonnie S. Kunkeyani

September 14th, 2026

Review

On the End of the World — A Review of “Under the Blue” by Oana Aristide

by Lisa Schantl

September 7th, 2026

Review

Chapter's Still Unwritten — A Review of “Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation” by Geena Rocero

by Sam Dapanas

August 17th, 2026

Other

Writing the Same Body Twice — Microfiction, Self-Translation, and Controlled Loss

by Azul Rivera

August 3rd, 2026

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News & Events

Tint Fall '26 Release Graphic © Vanesa Erjavec

Tint Journal writers’ locales:

Issue Fall '26

In Conversation

A Reflection of the Past and a Collection of Love, Politics and Life - An Interview with Zama Madinana

On the End of the World — A Review of “Under the Blue” by Oana Aristide

Chapter's Still Unwritten — A Review of “Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation” by Geena Rocero

Writing the Same Body Twice — Microfiction, Self-Translation, and Controlled Loss

News & Events

Fall '26: Out Now!

Tint goes NYC Poetry Festival 2026

Tint goes STERRRN Fest 2026

Spring '26: Out Now!