History of Brawl

For Posterity

2024

February:

-At AWP, Taylor jokes to Mar about making a lit mag.

May:

-While working at a boring writing center job Mar brought it up and they started throwing together ideas. Mar said “we have to be unique” and Taylor said “dinosaurs”

-They threw a scrappy site together using squarespace and canva graphics. They designed their avatars. They laughed about how dumb everything was a lot.

-They made twitter and instagram accounts and then officially opened. And people actually started sending submissions.

September:

-Their next MFA semester started and both faced incredibly difficult personal life shit (as one does) and fell behind.

November:

-They decided to open for a giveaway to give back to the literary community anyways.

December:

-They closed for the months of December/January to get caught up and did not get caught up but made a valiant effort.

2025

February:

-They reopened for subs while also prepping both of their first books to enter the world!

May:

-After another brutal semester they did a massive audit and actually got caught up

-They made some adjustments to the website, and also had an artist friend volunteer to make some art for the site. Shout out Bri Chapman!

-The OG Chester left home for college, and the OG Butterscotch retired, making way for the new Chester and Butterscotch designs.