Catastrophe
a literary magazine
We don’t just land on our feet— we write the fall.
More about our brand
At Catastrophe Literary Magazine, we believe in the beauty of the unraveling. Born from a love of language and a refusal to play it safe, we are a home for writers and artists who find power in the mess, the margins, and the meow. Our name is both a wink and a warning: we are the cat that disrupts the bookshelf, the quiet paw pressing against the glass of tradition.
We publish work that claws at convention and purrs with truth—fierce, lyrical, unapologetically real.
Our pages are a sanctuary for voices often ignored or silenced, especially from queer, BIPOC, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Whether it’s poetry that paces like a restless feline, fiction that prowls, or essays that leap with insight, we embrace the art of tension, transformation, and survival.
We don’t ask you to land on your feet. We ask you to tell us how it felt to fall—and what you found at the bottom.
