Inaugural Issue — 2025
writing outside institutional categories est. 2025
A magazine

latenight breakfast

For writing that refuses the hours it was made to keep.
For voices that arrive too late, too early,
from somewhere outside the map.

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Issue One
Transgressions

Open for submissions

A table set at the wrong hour, for the right people.

latenight breakfast is for writing that doesn't fit — the essay that became a poem, the poem that became testimony, the story that refused to end where it was supposed to.

We publish work across forms, languages, and registers, with particular attention to writers whose voices have been shaped by erasure, displacement, and the necessity of reinvention.

We do not charge submission fees. Writers we publish are paid. We write back to everyone.

The most political act sometimes is to simply refuse the category you've been handed — and write something true instead.
— from the editors

Writing
Transgressions

In a moment when identity is being legislated, named, surveilled, and denied — we are asking writers to transgress. Not as performance. Not as polemic. But as a formal and ethical necessity.

What does your writing do that it isn't supposed to? Where does it exceed its form, its genre, its assigned place? Who does it speak to, past all the gatekeepers?

We welcome prose, poetry, essay, hybrid work, translation, and forms that resist naming — in English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, and other languages. Work that hasn't found its home elsewhere is especially welcome here.

prose poetry essay hybrid forms translation English Hindi Urdu Marathi unnamed forms

Send us what
you couldn't place.

We are open for submissions to Issue One: Transgressions. We read everything. We respond to everything.

Writers at all stages welcome — including those who have never been published, or who have stopped submitting because it stopped making sense to.

Submissions
Rolling — Issue One

Some things we believe about how this should work

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