SANGAM LITERARY MAGAZINE

Sangam Literary Magazine features and represents works by established as well as emerging writers, irrespective of age, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. In this way, Sangam, a Sanskrit term for joining together, is, in fact, a coming together for all.

Sangam publishes digitally once or twice each academic year through the Department of Languages and Literature at Southern University and A&M College’s flagship campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As Louisiana’s largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU), Southern University is located in a bend of the Mississippi River, a locale with important literary significance, currently home to Louisiana’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, John Smith, who is among its Baton Rouge campus faculty.

SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR WINTER 2025 EDITION ARE OPEN THROUGH October 31, 2025

CURRENT ISSUE

Sangam, Volume Four, Issue One, Summer 2025

We look to welcome new writers while also featuring contributors that have been nominees and recipients of esteemed writing awards, prizes, and honors, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pushcart Prize, and Poet Laureate, as well as publishing original work and translations with leading journals and presses, including American Life in Poetry, The Iowa Review, New York Quarterly, The New Yorker, North American Review, Oxford University Press, and The Writer’s Almanac, among others.

Past Issues

Sangam, Volume Three, Issue Two, Fall/Winter 2023

Sangam, Volume Three, Issue One, Spring/Summer 2023

  Sangam, Volume Two, Issue One, Spring/Summer 2022

Sangam, Volume One, Issue Two, Spring/Summer 2021 

Sangam, Volume One, Issue One, Fall/Winter 2020