POETRY: HUMBLE — Volume IX — Quibble Lit

Overview
Quibble Lit is a literary magazine and collective that publishes contemporary writers and artists across print, online, and community programming. The journal positions itself as a venue for writing that takes risks, asks difficult questions, and rewards sustained attention. Volume IX takes HUMBLE as its thematic prompt, though the editors explicitly note that the theme is a creative prompt rather than a requirement. The theme is framed not as diminishment but as a posture of remaining teachable: an awareness that certainty has limits, that attention and posture change us, and that there is always something or someone we have not yet learned how to understand. The editors seek poems that encounter those limits—work of revision, naivete, misjudgment, and discovery; work that changes its mind or finds itself made strange by what it thought it knew. HUMBLE is described as an invitation to learn, unlearn, look again, and stay unfinished. There is no submission fee. Poets may submit up to three poems in a single document. The deadline is 10 October 2026. Quibble's stated editorial interest is in work with imagination and tension in it, and the journal publishes across print, online, and community programming.