The Pointed Circle

For our 41st issue, Portland Community College’s literary magazine Pointed Circle is calling for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Our theme for 2025 is DIG IN, and we’re looking for work that interprets and explores the ways in which we can get our hands dirty, find interconnectedness, and ground ourselves in community.

Dig into a story, dig in your heels, dig into the roots of a thorny problem.

Topics we’re especially interested in right now:

• Connections, community, interdependence

• Stories of working through radicalization to organization

• Exploring root systems, discovering symbiosis

• Mycorrhizae and uncovering previously unknown networks of communication and commonality.

If your work treats these themes in whole or in part, we’d love to hear from you.

We encourage writers of marginalized communities and minority identities to apply. While we aim to highlight the Portland area and particularly the experiences of the Portland Community College student body, anyone is welcome to submit.