Rib Cage Literary Magazine

At Rib Cage, we want the pieces that you have poured your entire self into with raw images and devastating characters. We like interesting line breaks, captivating diction and taking risks with style or formatting. We want poems or prose that take us to new places, leave us with burning questions or shocking answers, expose closed scars and open wounds, put a story in our mouth and force us to swallow. It is a bonus if they were written about, inspired by or written in the city of Chicago, but we are open to work from anywhere, inspired by anything, as long as it intrigues us from the start. If you think you have a piece of poetry or prose that fits this description, please submit.