About The Selkie
The Selkie is a non-profit literary magazine with representation as its core value. It supports and publishes work by individuals who self-identify as underrepresented in terms of race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender, socio-economic class, neurodivergence, disability, and refugee/immigration status.
Latest in Prose
The Tea Picking Club by Grasea
The painful disparities of race and class breed a cynicism that comes with knowing you belong to a particular category.
No Use Crying Over Spilled— by Chiara Bullen
Sometimes, the only way to escape is to jump from the fire into the frying pan – it’s better than remaining in the flames.
Come Home by Jen Cornick
An atmospheric ghost story in an abandoned town.
Latest in Poetry
Latest in art
Mario Loprete
Mario Loprete was born in Catanzaro in 1968. Painting is his first love—an important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept with which he wants to transmit his message—this is the foundation of painting for him.