The New Engagement Literature & Art Journal

The New Engagement is a Literature & Art Journal that publishes original short stories, novel excerpts, essays, drama, poetry, film, photography, illustrations, and paintings that promise personal insights, unique perspectives, and uncommon social observations.

Issue 17

Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Essays

Ten Vignettes About Love accompanying art

Ten Vignettes About Love

By Li Zhuang

Coupledom is the loneliest state.

Read
The Three Year Swim story art

The Three-Year Swim

By Amelia Possanza

Treading water, staying afloat.

Read

The Abortion Debate

By Tenacity Plys

Discussion, dissection.

Read
Leave story art

Leave

By Ioannis Pappos

Fathers, sons, and the toxic masculine.

Read
My Tattoos story art

My Tattoos

By Zachary Pace

Idolatry is more than skin deep.

Read
Decade and Grown story art

Decade and Grown

By Germ Lynn

Rented and reconstituted.

Read
Lost Reception story art

Lost Reception

By Aldo Izar

Dial M for Metaphysics.

Read
Rubbish Blooms story art

Three Poems

By Hannah Salzer

Lost objects, found directions.

Read
The Way In The Way Out story art

The Way In...The Way Out

By alex garcia

Violently, lovingly, evade.

Read
Jaywalking / The Sleeper story art

Jaywalking / The Sleeper

By Future Host (Tingying Ma and Kang Kang)

The body politic, awake and ready to move.

Read
The Reasons story art

The Reasons

By Phoebe Fico

Weathered but undergirded.

Read

Art

Film, Photography, Illustration, Painting

Currentcy

Currentcy

By Daniel Wolff, Robert Taplin

Bottom feeders, the bottom line.

View

Variation on Washington Square Trees

By David Alexander

Saint Joni. They paved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

View

Home

The New Engagement

The New Engagement endeavors a novel approach to discovering, introducing, and showcasing writers, artists, and filmmakers, by providing them digital and print platforms, while encouraging and supporting their social-consciousness.