The Rogue Writers Journal
After a couple of years of production exclusively via paper, nine writers have assembled online to observe, critique, analyze, imagine, stew, stir, and spew their way through the post-industrial-pre-collapse age.
Read onwards to explore our nine columns. We have new content every week. You can also sign up for our substack to have a weekly column delivered on a silver platter to your email’s inbox.
Dust On My Boots: Well worn boots tramp down from the mountain to wipe their soles on the age of modernity.
Sacred Roots: A deep dive into ethnobotany and entheogens. Heroic and wizard dosages only.
Arachnid Archives: A steamy teapot full of extraterrestrial, terroidal imagination experimentia.
Bookstore Creep: When the walls of bookstores talk, we read.
Peinando Plumas (Brushing Feathers): Tail feathers falling on to the cannabis workers in North America.
Underground Farmer: A handful of dirt from underground farmers & mycologists.
The New Italian Weird: A fringe immersion into contemporary Italian literature.
Passing Through: Modern cult communities observed through the eyes of a passer-by.
The Mad Erosophical Sage: The best broth comes from wisdom teeth.
An Ode To The Beasts
This time I didn't have the strength to dance with death. Instead, I gave her a tired but sincere smile. She was still, looking at me and suddenly looking sad. It didn't take me long to understand that this was our farewell.
Una Oda a las Bestias
Esta vez no tuve fuerzas para bailar con la muerte. En vez, le dediqué una sonrisa cansada pero sincera. Ella estaba quieta, me miraba y parecía triste, de repente. No tardé en entender que equella estaba siendo nuestra despedida.
Passing Through: Anarchapulco
A liquor-soaked journey through An-Cap extravagance during covid-times Mexico.
Sacred Roots #4: Calea Zacatechichi
Tracing Entheogenic Traditions and Ethnobotanical Wisdom.
Feuilletton: A Broken Novel
None of us are actually looking for Mambe, but it is one of these little missions you put into a trip where no one knows exactly what to do.
Bookstore Creep: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl from Wallace Books
You see, the cover and synopsis of this book are on the prowl just like the main character, Paul Polydoris, who spends 337 pages fucking and thinking about fucking.
Dust On My Boots Part 6
I was awoken early this cold Winter mornin’ by the buzz of chainsaws in the woods
Brushing Feathers: The Lesson Of The Fool
What was I going to tell them? That a guy with blue eyes had raped my soul without my consent? Not only that, but I allowed him to see me crying. He saw me. In his own way and with his blue, ugly, shallow gaze. But he saw me.
Peinando Plumas: LA LECCIÓN DEL TONTO
Se rompió el cristal del acuario y ahora me ahogaba, sola, sin saber a quien recurrir. ¿Qué les iba a contar? ¿Que un tipo de ojos azules me había violado el alma sin consentimiento? No solo eso, sino que permití que me viera llorando. Me vio. A su manera y con su mirada azul, fea y superficial. Pero me vio.
Year 2 0 2 5
Explore musings on time and space from the heart of author M.M - accompanied by a short introduction of themself. This poem rings the comforting bells of our darker days, inviting us all to reach for the light, together, this new year.
Passing Through: Heroin & State Rehabs (Part II)
Papaver somniferum: sleep-bringing poppy. Did you know that soldiers who died in battle are symbolized by red opium poppies? Veterans from the War on Drugs, rest easy.
Bookstore Creep: Chain-Gang All-Stars from Parallel Worlds Bookshop
As I watched videos of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, it became clear that the author doesn’t like horror any more than I do. This struck a chord in me. Sometimes the muse takes us to uncomfortable places in order to say the things that need to be said.
Dust On My Boots Part 5: They’ll Have To Pry It Outta My Cold Dead Hand
"While everyone got dragged, NO, went flying like robotic moths to an electric flame into the 21st century and the disgusting cyber-hell it brought, I drew a hard-line at my land-line telephone. That was it, no further… "
Passing Through: Heroin & State Rehab Pt. 1
An exploration of homelessness and addiction in the early 2000’s written in travelogue style.
Bookstore Creep: Free Association
"As I speak, I realize a few things. First of all, I realize that the birth of so many new histories may be the exact reason why the act of summary is so strenuous."