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Cleaver is a Philadelphia-based online magazine that provides a platform for underrepresented writers and artists producing work of the highest quality.
Cleaver exists to:
  • elevate emerging voices, including young adults, alongside established writers.
  • showcase Philadelphia literary voices among national and international literary artists.
  • develop the editorial skills of young writers through our selective internship program.
  • present balanced, insightful book reviews promoting work published by small presses as well as often-overlooked works in translation.
  • represent the fullest diversity of literary art for all genres and content, advancing
  • emerging contemporary literary forms.
Cleaver offers access to the public free of charge. Our literary quarterly is published in March, June, September, and December.

We are independent and self-funded and are grateful for support, in part, from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

About our name: “cleave” is a Janus word, also known as an “auto-antonym”, meaning both itself and its opposite. To “cleave” is both to stick tight and to fall away. A cleaver is the most broad-edged and brutally efficient kitchen knife, designed to be swung like a hammer for the most effective channel of force. “Cleave” also means to come together with strong attachment.
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