Hi. We're a magazine that isn't a magazine.
Welcome to the homepage that goes along with your monthly print installment of Pocket Lit.

No binding, no pretense,
   just 20 cards in an envelope.   

Traditional magazines are finished. 
Too many frills, too much heft, too little quality. So, we've pared down the magazine to what is important: stories and poems and drawings and things that make you feel, I don't know... 

                      ...like Val Kilmer in that movie where he's blind, but then gets an operation to cure his blindness, and he rediscovers what life can be...

except with more flash fiction and poetry 
and without the melodrama...
and without Val Kilmer 
(seriously, he's not invited).

We publish only the best [fiction, poetry, memoir, art, illustration, comics, that awesome thing you do that doesn't have a real name yet] that can fit in black and white on a 4x6 card.

Kindling is 
versatile, portable, interchangeable, 
and we have a new issue every other month

In short, we are a print magazine for the digital age.



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MAY 21 2012: Issue 5 is ALIVE
So updating the website is not really our thing...creating kindling IS our thing. Check out the latest issue, like immediately

APR 18 2012: welcome to Portland
Kindling has relocated to the City of Roses/Bridges. (Please excuse the lack of updates lately; you know, moving sucks.) Coming May 1 - ISSUE 5! Stay tuned. 

FEB 12 2012: the Year of the Dragon issue is ready
Check it out here

JAN 23 2012: welcome to the year of the dragon
You are probably wondering where the January issue is...more

JAN 6 2012: What We're Reading Now - The Zero by Jess Walter
I used to be anti-genre fiction, which is to say that I used to be a Serious English Student...more (on the blog)

JAN 1 2012: introducing THE WOODPILE
Now you can read actual published kindling pieces ONLINE! check out THE WOODPILE at The Whittled-Down Log.


DEC 27 2011: now offering 12-month print subscriptions to Canada
We have a thing for Canadians - unfortunately...more