A literary magazine dedicated to all things dark academia. Accepting both prose & poetry.

Ivy-covered walls. Ruins lost to antiquity. Hidden pasts. A murder in the night. Candlelit Chronicles is a literary magazine dedicated to haunting and evocative writing, imbued with philosophical prose. We are open to almost any genre, from Mystery to Gothic to Literary Fiction and beyond. So long as it is atmospheric, cozy, and explores the deeper parts of what it means to be human, we want it.




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Candlelit Chronicles

Issue I: Sorrows of the Pysche

Issue II of Candlelit Chronicles, Echoes of the Past, is open now! For this issue, we are seeking dark academia prose and poetry infused with imagery, themes, or settings rooted in the past. While this is our primary focus, we welcome all exceptional works of dark academia, regardless of theme.

Check out our website to submit! https://candlelitchronicles.com/submit

(Literary, Gothic, Historical, Mystery, Free Blank Verse, Mythic, Cozy, Hybrid)

Issue II: Echoes of the Past

Scribbled at midnight, etched in a forgotten book, buried with the dead. This issue is an ode to all things dark academia, where the pursuit of knowledge is both a calling and a curse. It is found in the fever of midnight study, in the margins of worn-out books, in the questions that keep us awake when the halls have long gone silent. It is a philosophy, a mood, a haunting, an obsession with beauty and truth, tinged always with the inevitability of death.

In this issue of Candlelit Chronicles, we welcome every shade of dark academia. Rivalries in lecture halls, clandestine meetings behind library stacks, the tension between reason and passion, the hunger for truths, and the solitude of thought. Show us the rituals, the friendships, the betrayals, the obsession with words, art, and ideas. Give us the autumn air, the flicker of candlelight, the taste of ink and rain.

Issue III: Ode to Quill and Ink - Prose

Scribbled at midnight, etched in a forgotten book, buried with the dead. This issue is an ode to all things dark academia, where the pursuit of knowledge is both a calling and a curse. It is found in the fever of midnight study, in the margins of worn-out books, in the questions that keep us awake when the halls have long gone silent. It is a philosophy, a mood, a haunting, an obsession with beauty and truth, tinged always with the inevitability of death.


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