Tacenda Literary Magazine is an online publication dedicated to creative writing on crime and punishment. The magazine is edited by American University students (Sonia Tabriz, James Worsdale and Kristen Luppino) under the supervison of Professor Robert Johnson. We are looking for poems, plays and short stories. Submissions should be made by email in an MS Word attachment. Please supply a short bio, which will accompany your work if it is published. Your submission must be your original work and cannot have been published elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know if your submission has been accepted elsewhere. We accept artwork (paintings, sketches, photos). If you have something in mind, please query before submitting your work.
Send submissions to Tacendamagazine@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions for the 2009 issue is October 15, 2008.
Selected issues of Tacenda are archived below. Simply click on the issue you wish to review.
Collector's Premiere Issue 1999
Spring 2006 (Special Topics Issue: Capital Punishment)
Spring 2007 (Special Topics Issue: Prison Stories)
Spring 2008 (Special Topics Issue: Studies in Crime and Punishment)