[Image description: Two drawings in black and white are framed side by side. They depict two sections of the same bridge. In the first panel, two supports form an archway underneath the bridge’s girders and decking. Through the opening in the archway, a series of tall, thin tree trunks can be seen on a hill in the distance. The right panel shows cracks in one of the bridge supports, the fracture branching upward. ]
Barking Sycamores is a literary journal entirely edited and operated by queer neurodivergent people of color. We publish poetry, artwork, short fiction (beginning with Issue 3), creative nonfiction (beginning with Issue 8), and hybrid genre work (beginning with Issue 9) by emerging and established neurodivergent writers as well as essays on neurodiversity and literature and book reviews (beginning with Issue 10).
[Image description: A portrait orientation image of a watercolor painting depicting several multicolored shapes. Some have curly edges, as if like ocean waves. The image is in colors of blue, green, red, orange, yellow, teal […]
Audition by Rachel Schmieder-Gropen She admired my courage, she said in a way that made it clear that she had noticed nothing else. I did not need her to validate my humiliation. I was there […]
Botanical Garden Duplex by Charlene Ashley Taylor Built from bricks of red poppy The short-lived perennial Two years of invisible war Warriors carve into their skin Birthing poinsettia on thighs And with pineapple sage They […]
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