Magpie is a publication of The Howler Project, a nonprofit human arts collective creating space for connection and expression. We used to publish work under The Howler Daily, but then we took a year off, grew our nonprofit, had our midlife crises, and evolved into Magpie Zine.

The mag was born from an affinity for early underground zines—subversive, intelligent, uniquely collaborative, and vigorously imaginative. We are devoted to the spirit of that counterculture and the heart and soul of originality. Each issue is a themed collection of somewhat unusual, possibly urgent, and slightly unhinged human expressions, teetering between a rock and a highbrow.

We’re a volunteer, motley troupe of discerning discontents, mostly habitating in the Midwest. Our day jobs differ, but we all gave our hearts to the arts a long time ago. We seek the fresh and the real for an equally real-fresh online issue published every few months. Give us your prose, poetry, art, ephemera, and the wildly unclassifiable. More on the Submit page →