A literary HUB WITH ROOTS IN QUEER VOICES.
Spruce Street is a semiannual literary magazine that ambitions to chart queer writing in a continuous literary cartography. We publish poetry, prose, and essays from emerging and established writers with the hope of bridging the products of queer storytellers across generations. Spruce Street takes an interest in the past, present, and future of the queer voice—and sees itself as a hub that showcases stories from our communities.
Spruce Street takes its name from Philadelphia’s Spruce Street, a central roadway and a key tenet of the city’s vibrant Gayborhood. In the 1950s, gay men socializing and engaging in Center City would become known as “Spruce Street boys.” Today, the gay and lesbian coffeehouses that first populated the area give rise to a dynamic cultural scene nestled in the queer haven of the Gayborhood.
We are particularly interested in writing from storytellers who identify as queer or who identify with the city of Philadelphia. Of course, we welcome voices beyond Philadelphia and who do not self-identify as LGBTQ+.
In its first phase, Spruce Street exists as an engaged scholarship project overseen by Christopher Schwarting in the Power to the People Seminar at Harvard College. Support for the project is made possible, in part, with funds from the National YoungArts Foundation.
Close to home.
Spruce Street lies in the digital either. But we trace our roots to Philadelphia’s Spruce Street—in the heart of the Gayborhood.
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