Writing Contest: Best 2022 of 2022
In our new writing contest, we are accepting short stories, poems, and essays exactly 2022 words long. Enter now.
Editors’ Blog
The editors’ blog is a compilation of posts on a wide range of topics from the Identity Theory editors. Subscribe: RSS
Introducing Four New Identity Theory Editors
These editors will be helping us select and produce quality fiction and nonfiction as well as other new features on the site.
Meet Our New Poetry Editor: Danielle Rose
Danielle Rose, our new poetry editor, is the author of at first & then and The History of Mountains.
An Afghan Perspective: The West Chose Wrong Problems to Solve, Wrong Methods to Solve Them
"The West set out to solve a series of problems in Afghanistan. The West is a very problem-solving culture. And one of the problems of Afghanistan is that it doesn't lend itself readily to being sorted out on the West's terms."
Programming Note: We’re Back
21 years have passed since we published our first bunch of stories on identitytheory.com. One year has passed since we published our last story. That changes today.
Visit Identity Theory at Lit Crawl San Francisco
We're throwing an Identity Theory reading-party at the San Francisco Lit Crawl on October 14th.
7 Classic Poems of Autumn
A selection of classic fall poetry by Shakespeare, Frost, Keats, and other dead poets.
#RockBannedBooks
In honor of Banned Books Week (Sept. 22-28), we created the Twitter hashtag #RockBannedBooks to raise awareness of books that have been banned or contested.
10 Donald Hall Quotes
"Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything."
National Poetry Month 2013 Open Thread
A wide open space to show off your original poetry, your favorite copyright-free poem, or any thoughts that you wish to share about poetry.