About Adrift

Adrift is a space for Night Schoolers to share work that’s in dialogue with thoughts and ideas encountered through Night School Bar. Now more than ever, we believe that writing is a vital part of thinking together at Night School Bar. We welcome all experiences and levels of expertise; in fact, we need them for our work to be democratic, pluralistic, and meaningful. We hope Adrift will be a place where Night Schoolers can practice their craft, share ideas and arguments that matter to them, and learn as a community.

Submissions

We’d love to see your favorite piece from one of our fiction workshops, a few hundred words reflecting on a concept from our classes, or an essay on some aspect of literature, politics, and culture you’re seeing in a new light because of NSB. Please note, contributors need to have studied with NSB or participated in NSB events in order to be accepted. 

Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis; all submissions received before midnight Nov. 22, 2025 will be prioritized for the first round of publication.

We’re looking for 500-3,000 words of…

  • Fiction (excerpts welcome!)

  • Essays 

  • Reviews of movies or books 

  • Transcripts of interviews on topics related to the arts and humanities

  • Standalone poems (double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman Font)

  • Reflections. Reflections can be a response to any Night School topic or course. Examples might be: “Why I’m Rethinking AI,” “The Problems with Romantic Love” or “My Experience With Relationship Anarchy.” Reflections can be academic or personal/experiential in nature.


We're seeking submissions as varied as the perspectives students bring to Night School Bar classes. If your work is a little longer or doesn't fit tidily into these categories, don't let that stop you from submitting. Please submit all work to editor.nightschoolbar@gmail.com as a pdf. Submissions should be in Times New Roman Font, size 12, double-spaced. Please include a header on your submission with your name, contact information, the category you’re submitting under (fiction, essay, poem, reflection), the NSB course or topic you’re responding to, and a title.

Here’s an example:

NAME: Michel Foucault
CONTACT INFO: michel.foucault@gmail.com
CATEGORY: Essay
COURSE OR TOPIC: Liberation in the Age of Technocracy (specifically the idea of disciplinary surveillance)
TITLE: Emotional Surveillance in the Age of AI

Please email editor.nightschoolbar@gmail.com with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!