New Session

We very much still need submissions for New Session!!! We currently have VERY FEW submissions, and that means we need you to send us interactive/literally dynamic writing to publish. I want to see yr beautiful wordssssss<3333

hey all! the deadline for issue 4 has been pushed back a bit; please send in your work, we'd really like to publish it!

image of an old, rounded green screen computer terminal, an ADM-5, with the text: the mountain is becoming the darkness the mountain has been here all along this is the mountain QUESTION: Why are you afraid of the mountain? ANSwER: i an afraid of everything actually QUESTION: Why did you leave the town? ANSWER: or maybe it was the ghosts QUESTION: Why did you return? ANSWER: i thought i left it behind but i was still carrying it all along i thought i left the boys behind but i was still carrying them all along QUESTION: why did you go to the mountain? ANSWER: i wanted to let go of all of the things that i was holding i wanted to stop carrying these things

I am EXTREMELY proud to officially launch New Session's third issue: Adaptations

you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com

NEW SESSION > ISSUE 3: ADAPTATIONS [A TELNET LITERARY SALON + PERFORMANCE] FEATURING: JUNE MARTIN NEVER ANGELINE NORTH KAIA PEACOCK ERI KAPLING AND MUSIC BY: FENNEL FLOWERS JUNE 6, 2025 /// 6:30 PM LITTLE RAVEN GALLERY 1015 HOWARD ST., SF

NEW SESSION ISSUE 3 LAUNCH + READINGS!

We're having a physical launch party for New Session Issue 3! Featuring @theworldsgreatestwriter.com @onionflower.bsky.social @deerea.rs and @protobuf.bsky.social, with music by @rosemary.world!

get your tickets now!

www.eventbrite.com/e/new-sessio...

all acceptances and rejections have now been mailed out; if you haven't heard from me, please let me know!

more exciting news to come tomorrow :)

hiiii this is important!!! please make sure to submit early!

just sent out a round of emails asking for changes if your work didn't follow the submission guidelines. if you got an email from me and you still have questions (or you still want to submit!) please let me know!

important news!

we're always saying this

A story from new session on a black and white screen, on a grey laptop with a trackball

just fixed a few bugs in the New Session CMS that should make it easier to read stories on terminals that need CRLFs instead of just LFs

enjoying @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social's excellent "A Dissolution" from issue 2 on this PowerBook 170

web version: anewsession.com/issue2/a_dis...

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]

A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

just opened DMs! plz let me know if you have any questions about submissions for issue 3, thanks!

this is one of the most exciting things i've seen in a while. a new direction to go in!

if you also feel this way, consider submitting to @anewsession.com the only literary magazine delivered over telnet, a text only protocol that works on every computer for the last 40 years

it's a telnet service and you're connecting over HTTP :)

GOOD NEWS! after many months stuck on the janky and slow Python CMS, New Session Issue 1 is now back online on the new fancy JVM CMS!

this means: it actually works now. go try it:

telnet issue1.anewsession.com

yesterday I wrote a first draft of a sweet little thing for @anewsession.com

it was grounding to create, to craft a vision of something nice to share with people

it doesn't yet feel particularly groundbreaking in terms of variance, but i think right now I'll prioritize gentleness

another incredible story published all the way back in 2021 in New Session Issue 1: @theworldsgreatestwriter.com tells the story of a man who murders with a phone call as a little party trick

anewsession.com/issue1/old_m...

I sat dumbfounded for a moment and wondered about asking another question; I was a bit of an outsider having only been at these classes three weeks under this after-school plan. and I had been trying to "fit in" by hiding as much as possible and being on board the Jesus train! My family had been religious in almost no way other than the holidays and beyond coloring eggs for Easter and of course Christmas cheer (and quite a outsized portion of that) I knew almost nothing of the Bible or Jesus post-birth. I knew as much or more about other religions though. For reasons...

we're super excited to put out a new issue of New Session in just a few months! in the meantime, we'd like to highlight some of our previous submissions.

first: Claire's beautiful ascii-art memoir of queerness and God and the ocean, Milestones

anewsession.com/issue1/miles...