Welcome to Octave Magazine

Octave Magazine is an online literary journal that features poetry and fiction by musicians who write and writers who make music. We know there are many of you out there. We’ve seen you at the writing retreats, the workshops, the residencies, the conventions. Banjos pulled from cases, guitars strummed on lonely Adirondack chairs, mandolins appearing from backpacks as if by magic. And we’ve seen you on that Greyhound bus, in green rooms, in hotel lobbies while your bandmates are still sleeping—beginning the next chapter, the next poem. We started this magazine because we respect what you do. We want to hear from you.

Issue Two

Poetry

Anaïs Mitchell
Love Poem

Meg Hutchinson
Whale Watching
Nest
To Virginia on March 28th
Dinner 

Cameron Kelsall
Daylight Savings Time

Fiction

Kristofer Whited
Escape Artist

Dao Strom
Signs of Permanence

William Matthew McCarter
Annie Batiste’s Cajun Cuisine 

Issue One

Poetry

Becca J.R. Lachman
Bono And Me, We Were Going To Save The World
Mozart Hands
Imagining the Interval

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
Guitar Player #5

Rachel Kiel
Conversations on Free Will
June 27
Mushroom Identification
Falling Out Your Window

Alison Stine
Erotima
Afterward
The Corn Plant

Phoebe Reeves
Rosa rugosa

Ed Skoog
Lake City Way (an audio poem)

Fiction

Anne Timberlake
A Brief History of Music in Winnemucca

Joey Dean Hale
Jack and Diane

Brian Alan Ellis
Cutter

Ken Waldman
Swampland