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"You Should Do As I Have Done" by Douglas Campbell

Short Story

When the Soil Softens

by Tilbe Akan

Another winter night. Again. There is no summer anymore, only winter and darkness. It’s almost always dark now. Every day, it seems the sun tries to ...read the full piece

Short Story

Stitched

by Anna Pedko

Her grandmother was the last person Svitlana went to say goodbye to before leaving. Not because she didn’t have any warm feelings toward Granny but ...read the full piece

Flash Fiction

Cloth

by Niels Bekkema

He would have liked to try sentences — to feel their weight. Better still, he would have liked to stand up, to extend his back and press the crown of ...read the full piece

Essay

New Words, New Worlds

by Alina Zollfrank

It snoozes on the bookshelf, slightly dusty and, upon further inspection, as battered as I remember. The soft, sunflower-yellow cover is warped and ...read the full piece

Essay

A Farce in the Cultural Revolution

by Sue Tong

A Child’s Handwriting Sparked a Storm When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, our family — branded among the “Black Five Categories” — was ...read the full piece

Flash Nonfiction

Changing the Story

by Ekow Agyine-Dadzie

I come from a place so small it is not even on the map: Awutu Oshimpo in the Central Region of Ghana. A quiet village with red dust, bare feet, and ...read the full piece

"Places we didn't travel to" by Anna Major

Poetry

Lacrimosa

by Rudrangshu Sengupta

1. Did you know there’s a flood in the mirror everytime you blink?The night sways in silk, in the hush of an ocean that never stops whispering. ...read the full piece

"The Adorned Woman" by Maheshwar N. Sinha

Poetry

I'm from Elsewhere

by Shaira Sultana

Where the sundoesn’t burnit tans Where we paintwith mehnditraced on brown skin Savour gheeon every plateand sugarcane We embellish our disheswith ...read the full piece

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Issue Fall '25

In Conversation

Jhumpa Lahiri — The Writer Who Changed Her Own Tongue

Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”

A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani

A Brief and Personal History of Literary Translingualism — An Interview with Natasha Lvovich

News & Events

Tint Journal Author in Best Microfiction 2026

Tint Journal Authors Awarded with Pushcart Prize(s)

Fall '25: Out Now!

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