MISSION
Laundromat Literary is a text and visual media-based magazine cultivating creative passion in youth. We aim to promote accessible publication, platform marginalized perspectives and help foster community amongst our artists. As referenced in our name, we're curating an environment for creatives from multifarious niches of the human experience to come together and dump out what disheveled ideas lie in the baskets of their minds.We like experimentation with the mundane, written Matryoshka dolls, the grotesque and the theatrical, the surgical and the mechanical. We want your messy laundry musings, your poetry/nonfiction/fiction/genre-be-damned writing that seems too absurd to share anywhere else, so send us what you’ve got and we’ll try our best to find a place for it.In line with our mission, we prioritize queer and/or trans creators as well as BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People of color) in our submissions process.
MASTHEAD
Cofounder:
Ashaley J. is a senior in high school who plans to study English. Her writing has been published in various literary magazines and been recognized by Scholastic. She is also a poetry/prose editor and visual media creator for JardinZine. Beyond her literary passions, she enjoys both traditional and digital illustration, specifically character design, and absolutely adores visual storytelling.Cofounder:
Amy Hu is currently in her fourth year of high school and has been with her school’s literary magazine for the past three. With a Scholastic gold key under her belt, she works as an English tutor for kids in her community, doing her best to steer them away from ChatGPT and future unemployment. Amy spends most of her free time reading, learning new instruments, or finding a movie to watch. She loves writing. She doesn’t love writing about herself in the third person.Writing Editor, Visual Media Creator:
Stephanie Liang is a current high school senior in Southern California. As an aspiring photographer, she hopes to explore the intersection of art and medicine through this medium. She is of the strong belief that all energy drinks taste like disease.Writing Editor:
During a years-long approach to writing and finding out what it means to them, Maeve White has traveled back and forth from novels, to essays, to songwriting, but poetry has always been something they can't shake. Aside from that, they're in love with botany, linguistics, sculpture, drawing, rock collecting, philosophy, striving to be grossly overeducated, and taking pictures of anything they find even mildly interesting. Located in Connecticut, but hoping to reach anyone who may need it, anywhere they may be.Staff Writer:
Deya Nurani is singer, actress, and poet with an ongoing social justice column in the Dhaka Tribune. She has been published internationally, in South Korea, Bangladesh, and the United States. Her debut film role was in Pixar's Inside Out 2. Her passion for performance and creativity fuels a focus on healing through storytelling. Through her advocacy and artistry she aims to build cultural bridges and emphasize intersectionality, prioritizing representation for the South Asian and Muslim community. Her great loves are music, writing, reading, spending time in nature, and privately watching unnecessarily esoteric video essays or commentary. She loves The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Gilmore Girls, and Anne with An E. Her favorite authors include Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Kahlil Gibran, and Angie Thomas. She lives by the music of Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Chloe x Halle, J. Cole, Erik Satie, TLC, The Smashing Pumpkins, Lauryn Hill, and more.
