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You can familiarize yourself with the magazine by ordering a recent print issue or perusing the writing that appears here at AGNI Online, which includes selected pieces from our decades in …

AGNI is a literary magazine housed at Boston University and known “among readers around the world,” as the writers group PEN put it, “for publishing important new writers early in their …

Fiction Character entangled in circumstance. Revelations of language and self under pressure. Lia Purpura, Wasp Nest (detail), featured in AGNI 102

Louise Glück, the most recent AGNI contributor to win the Nobel Prize, died just two weeks after a cancer diagnosis. Many fellow writers in Boston and beyond lost a dear friend.

Our hundredth issue exemplifies the engagement, nuance, and spirit that are AGNI ’s trademark. Cover artist Chitra Ganesh starts things off with a playful visual rendering of “Sultana’s …

Apr 15, 2004 · I recognized quite early on (see AGNI 57) that I would have to take the leap of trusting myself absolutely. I worried, naturally—still do—that this was the most deluded kind of …

A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

Then founding editor Askold Melnyczuk and coeditor Sven Birkerts look back on 50 years of AGNI —from conception to full maturity. For a unique and celebratory art feature, we invited …

Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars …