New Issues in 2025
The print issue was mailed to subscribers, including all contributors ever, and was distributed at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Los Angeles. The 2025 print issue explores concepts of trickster, chance, and shifting expectations. The format revisits the large sheet of earlier print issues, folded to create the expectation of order but ultimately revealing deconstructed panels and variations of skew. The online version is available in the 2025 archive.
Other issues in the volume are available online only. The summer issue features the winners and honorable mentions in the California Coastal Commission K-12 Poetry Contest and is available as the Current Issue.
Temporary Hiatus
For the rest of 2025, Tab Journal will be on hiatus from publishing issues to account for the Editor’s sabbatical and do our usual annual review of the project and policies.
Return in 2026
While a much-needed permanent budget enhancement for Tab Journal—the first since the project’s inception—was initially approved for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, it was subsequently rescinded as part of larger university budget tightening. Our usual annual review will be guided by the financial constraints this news introduced.
Our next issue will be published in early 2026, and we’ll have a booth at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Baltimore. We are excited about our concept for that issue and will do a special call for work.