Passages North

ABOUT

Passages North is the literary magazine of Northern Michigan University, publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work since 1979. It has built a reputation as a serious venue for short prose and lyric poetry, with recent issues featuring writers like Michael Bazzett, Adam McOmber, and Zachary Schomburg (who judged the 2026 Neutrino Short-Short Prize). The magazine runs two annual contests — the Waasnode Fiction Prize and the Neutrino Short-Short Prize — each with a guest judge, and it maintains an active online supplement alongside its print annual, posting new poems and flash pieces roughly weekly.