ALMA is a quiet experiment in seriousness. Independent and ad-free, it offers a home to work that resists easy tagging—fiction that sidesteps plot, essays that wander into the philosophical, poems that read like confessions or games. We’re drawn to pieces that carry intellectual risk, tonal elasticity, or an unlikely point of view. Not because they’re clever, but because they make you stop.

Published online since 2020, ALMA doesn’t follow the rhythms of a publishing calendar. We update as we discover, letting the website function more like a living archive than a traditional magazine. Submissions are selected and edited by a small editorial board, each piece curated for a reader willing to spend time—not just consume.

We’re interested in both the unfinished and the precise, the overlooked and the overthought: a fragment of a travel diary, a sketch of a philosophical idea, a satire of online life. Our contributors include new voices and established ones, emerging thinkers and quietly brilliant observers who might not think of themselves as writers at all.

ALMA is based in South Asia and shaped by its contradictions, but not limited to them. We publish in English, for a global readership that values slow attention. Our deepest loyalty is not to genre, identity, or relevance, but to the feeling you get when a piece of writing opens a small window in the head and lets in something unexpected. 

Happy reading!