The Gravity of the Thing is an independent literary magazine dedicated to the publication of innovative and defamiliarized writing. Since the journal’s inception in 2013, The Gravity of the Thing has been named one of thirty best online magazines by Bookfox, our publications have been finalists in the Shirley Jackson Awards, and we are the grateful recipient of a grant from Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council. We publish work that is aware of its literary form, writing that defamiliarizes in craft or content to achieve an enhanced rendering of reality.

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