A. A. Kostas
Fiction, poetry, essays and reviews

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

