Twice a year TIMBER publishes a selection of prose, poetry, and visual text-work, along with rolling interviews and reviews with contemporary writers and artists. We believe in taking raw materials and building something beyond the expected.

Run by the MFA candidates out of the University of Colorado-Boulder, we value work which pushes against boundaries: genre-bend, build or break form, confront the rules and voices of the canon. If you’re not flirting with failure or writing risky, it’s probably not for us. 

That said, experimental does not mean: intellectually elitist, inaccessible, or haphazard. Disorientation to the point of estrangement does not equal quality. Obtuse is not necessarily experimental. 

For inquiries, contact our editors at:

timberjournal @ gmail . com

TIMBER stands in solidarity with anti-racist, abolitionist movements across the nation. 

As a journal of experimental writing, we are aware that literary experimentation has historically been overwhelmed by white voices, despite incredible experimental works from writers of color. TIMBER is furthering our commitment to navigating beyond a Western-European experimental history toward a more robust practice of experimentation which challenges white, colonial grammars and paradigms. We recognize our pressing responsibility to reevaluate TIMBER’s role in maintaining the status quo, and to implement new approaches to foster greater diversity in our readers, writers, and staff. It is vital we more actively seek out, encourage, and otherwise support underrepresented and marginalized writers.

While we continue working on serious, sustained efforts to make TIMBER the diverse, anti-racist journal of experimentation it should be, we also want to extend gratitude to past and current editors who have worked to resist complacency despite institutional and historic barriers. 

Still, we could have done much more, and we are committed to active, ongoing improvement. 

Black Lives Matter.