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The Alchemist's Cabin

🜃The Alchemist’s Cabin

Step inside—the tea is hot, and the fire’s still burning.

Welcome to The Alchemist’s Cabin, a quiet corner of the internet built for those who believe in the slow, strange magic of creation.

We are a home for stories, poems, and experimental works by small creators—the kind of art that hums softly, that doesn’t demand attention but lingers long after you’ve read it.

We’re just getting started, but our hope is to build a community where writers and readers connect, heal, and help each other grow. Our goal is to feature writers in the new year and pay for submitted pieces. Your subscription makes that possible.

🜂 Founders

The Alchemist’s Cabin was born from a need to turn pain into something beautiful. To take the broken pieces and make art, to take the heaviness of living and give it a place to rest.

We believe in stories as medicine, in poetry as magic, and in community as the fire that keeps us warm when everything else feels cold.

Devyn Leighton, our founder, began writing anonymously online—posting real poems and journal excerpts written while surviving and leaving an abusive relationship. She didn’t expect anyone to read them.

But they did. And they said:
I have felt this. I have survived this. Thank you for saying it out loud.

Since, Devyn has been sharing more and more. And from that honesty, built this cabin in hopes of helping others share their stories as well.

While we are woman-owned and operated, we are not exclusive. All are welcome here.

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🜁 The Work We Do Here

At its heart, The Alchemist’s Cabin is about survival. Not the neat, cinematic kind, but the quiet, daily act of staying. Of breathing through the ache and making something out of it.

We believe that telling your story is an act of rebellion against the silence that hurt you, and also, a love letter to life itself. Every piece published here, whether a poem, or confession, carries that heartbeat: I’m still here.

We welcome stories that hold both the wound and the healing—the moments that nearly broke you, and the ones that made you whole again.

There is power not just in healing, but in enduring.

Not only in writing through pain, but in living to tell it.

Not only art for beauty’s sake, but art as a record of persistence.

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🜄 What We Want

We want to post original work that hasn’t been published elsewhere, though we’ll gladly consider writing shared previously on your blog or Substack.

We aim to publish poetry, fiction, and all the raw, in-between pieces that remind us what it means to be human. We talk about healing and heartbreak, creation and collapse—the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The Cabin is not for perfection. It’s for process. For people. For stories that are still learning how to end.

We’re building this cabin log by log and are open to new ideas, experiments, and forms of creative expression.

Currently seeking:

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Experimental works you are proud of

Submissions will officially open soon—stay tuned for details.

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🜃 Paying Writers

We aim to pay all contributors to our publication. Right now, we’re small and still gauging interest, but our goal is to share what we earn—both with our writers and by donating a percentage of profits each month to charities that support causes close to our heart.

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🜂 You Own Your Work

Always.

When you publish with The Alchemist’s Cabin, you keep full rights to your writing. We ask only for first serial rights, which means we have permission to publish your piece first, credited to you. After it’s shared here, you’re free to publish it anywhere else—we just ask that you credit The Alchemist’s Cabin as the original home.

This Cabin exists to honour authorship, not ownership. Your words belong to you.

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🜁 Come Sit by the Fire

If you’ve ever needed a place to lay your words down, this is it.
The tea is hot, the lights are low, and the door is open.

Welcome to The Alchemist’s Cabin.
You’ve found your way home.

We are aiming to publish in the new year, and begin accepting submissions shortly! Consider subscribing, or making a donation to help us get started!