Edited by current Creative Writing graduate students at Eastern Michigan University, BathHouse is an online journal that promotes interdisciplinary and hybrid arts with a special emphasis on language and innovation. We are interested in art that blurs the lines of conventional form and genre.

BathHouse takes its name from the 19th century sanatoriums, bath houses, and mineral water wells that flourished in Ypsilanti, Michigan, until truth in labeling laws were passed. The “foul smelling” waters of the Atlantis well, in the vicinity of the current Jones-Goddard dorm on the EMU campus, were bottled and shipped nationwide as a cure for 33 disorders of the blood.

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*Note: because no “portal” site formerly existed:

• BH volumes numbered 5.1 and below have key elements, such as contact information, presented directly within the issue. Such information was ONLY relevant at the time each issue was released. Future issues will not contain these types of changing information. Please consult the main site for current submission and staff details.

• If you use the navigation options presented in volumes 5.1 and below you will only be able to access issues prior to the one you are reading. “Home” links will take you to the home of the issue you originally opened, not the main “portal” site. In order to ease navigation difficulties, we recommend readers close and open issues directly from the main site. The main site will stay open when you leave it to read issues in different windows.