A. A. Kostas

Fiction, poetry, essays and reviews

Published writing

  1. ‘Redemption of the Eldest Sibling’ (essay), Impact Magazine (February – March 2026 issue)
  2. ‘Tramping Out of Dante’s Hell’ (essay) Mere Orthodoxy (January 2026)
  3. ‘Substack is God’s Gift to an Undeserving World’ (essay), The Republic of Letters (December 2025)
  4. ‘Backseat Faith’ (essay), Impact Magazine (December 2025 – January 2026 issue)
  5. ‘feasting table’ (poetry), The Clayjar Review (November 2025)
  6. ‘peak experience’ (poetry), The Way Back To Ourselves Literary Journal (Fall Collection, November 2025)
  7. ‘false interiors’ (poetry), Traces Journal (Issue 3, November 2025)
  8. ‘lunes of the unborn father’ (poetry), Traces Journal (Issue 3, November 2025)
  9. ‘The Battle of Taipei, First Sino-American War, 2026’ (narrative essay), Apocrypha (October 2025)
  10. Expatronizing’ (essay), The Republic of Letters (October 2025)
  11. Meta-Modernism in Action‘ (essay), The Republic of Letters (September 2025)
  12. ‘The Isle of Cryptoslavery’ (narrative essay), Apocrypha (August 2025)
  13. ‘dendrite soul / deciduous heart’ (poetry), The Clayjar Review (August 2025)
  14. ‘soil / roots / child’ (poetry), The Clayjar Review (August 2025)
  15. ‘Review of Francesca Dons Beatrice’s Cloak (review), New Verse Review (2025)
  16. ‘The Petition’ (flash fiction), Modern Pulp (June 2025 Flash Fiction Contest, 3rd Place Winner)
  17. ‘Thomas Pynchon speaks darker truths than you could ever know’ (narrative essay), Apocrypha (July 2025)
  18. ‘Treeborn’ (poetry), Calla Press Literary Journal (Spring / Summer 2025)
  19. ‘Poetry as Mutual Dreaming’ (essay), Inkwell by Christianity Today (May 2025)
  20. ‘Luminox’ (poetry), Vessels of Light (Spring 2025)
  21. ‘The Floating Cup’ (poetry), Vessels of Light (Spring 2025)
  22. ‘urban revival project’ (poetry), Ekstasis by Christianity Today (Winter 2025)
  23. ‘The Donut Theory of Poetry’ (essay) The Clayjar Review on Substack (January 2025)
  24. ‘Distant Corners’ (travel + photography) LOST Journal (February 2025)
  25. ‘The Saxophonist’ (fiction), The Rialto Books Review (Volume 26. 2025)
  26. ‘The King and I’ (fiction), After Dinner Conversation (February 2025)
  27. ‘Shepardic’ (poetry), Clayjar Review (Issue #10, 2024)
  28. ‘one month / two days’ (poetry), Meanjin Journal (Spring 2022)
  29. ‘Review of Southern-Land Poets Chapbooks’ (review), Cordite Poetry Review (2018)
  30. ‘like we’re scared‘ (poetry), Cordite Poetry Review (Issue 84, 2018)
  31. ‘The Mouth’ (fiction), Southerly (2018)
  32. ‘Review of Either, Orpheus (review), Cordite Poetry Review (2017)
  33. ‘The Animals’ (fiction), Lot’s Wife (Edition 4, 2017)
  34. ‘Review of Owl Publish Chapbooks’ (review), Cordite Poetry Review (2017)
  35. ‘A Stroll Around Fox Glacier Valley’ (travel + photography), We Are Explorers (2017)
  36. ‘Michael’ (poetry), otoliths (Issue 42, 2016)
  37. ‘City Adopted’ (poetry), Lot’s Wife (Edition 6, 2016)
  38. ‘Q&A with A. A. Kostas’ (interview), The Suburban Review (2015)
  39. ‘True Equals False’ (poetry), The Suburban Review (2015)
  40. ‘InsideOutside’ (poetry), otoliths (Issue 38, 2015)
  41. ‘Internal Multiverses’ (poetry), Literary Orphans (Issue 21, 2015)