Parish Lines

Parish Lines is a digital literary and cultural journal dedicated to the stories, traditions, and creative life of Louisiana.

Founded in 2026 by a small group of Louisiana natives, Parish Lines exists to preserve, celebrate, and share the voices that shape life across our state. The journal publishes Louisiana-centered work from writers and artists both within the state and beyond. We welcome work from anyone writing about Louisiana, and we also consider pieces reflecting the broader Gulf South when they speak to the region’s shared cultural landscape.

While Parish Lines publishes traditional literary work such as poetry, fiction, and essays, we are equally interested in the forms of storytelling that often live outside of literary journals. These include family recipes and food stories, oral histories, folklore, personal recollections, regional traditions, and knowledge that is often passed down quietly through generations. We believe these everyday narratives are just as vital to preserving culture as more conventional literature.

Louisiana has always been a melting pot of cultures, histories, and languages. Parish Lines seeks to honor that complexity by creating space for the many voices that make up the state’s cultural fabric. Our goal is to document not only the Louisiana of the past, but the Louisiana that continues to evolve through the stories people carry with them.

Through literature, memory, and cultural documentation, Parish Lines hopes to serve as both a creative platform and a growing archive of Louisiana life.

Submissions will open in 2026.

Louisiana’s cultural landscape includes traditions shaped by many communities, including:

Cajun • Creole • Isleño • African American • Indigenous American • French • Spanish • German Coast • Irish • Italian • Jewish • Vietnamese • Filipino • Honduran • Caribbean • and many others