Submit
How submit to magazines? Always pay close attention to the submission dates on the websites, after reading the magazines, before finding or writing exactly what you think the editors would enjoy.
Address them by name, include your piece in Standard Manuscript Format if that applies. Submit in Times New Roman 12 point double spaced, first lines indented (not manually.) Number the pages in the headers, with your name and the name of the piece or set. Begin it a third of the way down the page, with the title and your name centered.
However, the presentation of the piece on the page, as long as it has the basics of header material, etc., can be scattered across the page like a poem by the famous innovator, Apollinaire, could be a JPG with a combination of art and text if the magazine allows it. Experimental Magazines will give you the rules by explanation in the Submissions page but also through the style of the work already published.
If it's the first issue, the description of what they're after may be enhanced by reading what the editors have published in the past elsewhere. If they give an indication of the visual look and the degree of a professional quality at the beginning, let that guide your submissions as well. If you resonate with their aesthetic, seeing your work might be pleasing for your intended audience.
Some innovative magazines have relatively large audiences, like Conjunctions, and others will come and go online pretty quickly. Duotrope is a good place to keep track of submission calls if you can afford the fifty dollars a year, and they have an Experimental category.
Before submitting anyplace through the online process such as Submittable, prepare yourself to work with Track Changes, whether you use Word or Open Office, as that's what most editors will use to any suggest corrections. You might get a story back with Track Changes in a state requiring you review the edits and accept or reject them.
Where submit innovative fiction, poetry, and work that goes beyond any label? Look below for a few places out of the many.
Include a bio. Look at the types of bios their other authors write, as there is a wide range of possibilities, from whimsical and absurd to including only the most professional list of credits. Normally they are around five lines on the page more or less though some will allow only one sentence. Ideally have a website to include a link to. It's not considered polite to include a link to specific publication elsewhere. The majority of authors include their geographical location. Write it in the third person.
I don't keep this page updated regularly since typing is painful, but some of these magazines continue asking for submissions regularly. But when I can I include special timely requests. However, most of the timely requests now are going in the New Links section. If you have anything special you think should go here, let me know.
Address them by name, include your piece in Standard Manuscript Format if that applies. Submit in Times New Roman 12 point double spaced, first lines indented (not manually.) Number the pages in the headers, with your name and the name of the piece or set. Begin it a third of the way down the page, with the title and your name centered.
However, the presentation of the piece on the page, as long as it has the basics of header material, etc., can be scattered across the page like a poem by the famous innovator, Apollinaire, could be a JPG with a combination of art and text if the magazine allows it. Experimental Magazines will give you the rules by explanation in the Submissions page but also through the style of the work already published.
If it's the first issue, the description of what they're after may be enhanced by reading what the editors have published in the past elsewhere. If they give an indication of the visual look and the degree of a professional quality at the beginning, let that guide your submissions as well. If you resonate with their aesthetic, seeing your work might be pleasing for your intended audience.
Some innovative magazines have relatively large audiences, like Conjunctions, and others will come and go online pretty quickly. Duotrope is a good place to keep track of submission calls if you can afford the fifty dollars a year, and they have an Experimental category.
Before submitting anyplace through the online process such as Submittable, prepare yourself to work with Track Changes, whether you use Word or Open Office, as that's what most editors will use to any suggest corrections. You might get a story back with Track Changes in a state requiring you review the edits and accept or reject them.
Where submit innovative fiction, poetry, and work that goes beyond any label? Look below for a few places out of the many.
Include a bio. Look at the types of bios their other authors write, as there is a wide range of possibilities, from whimsical and absurd to including only the most professional list of credits. Normally they are around five lines on the page more or less though some will allow only one sentence. Ideally have a website to include a link to. It's not considered polite to include a link to specific publication elsewhere. The majority of authors include their geographical location. Write it in the third person.
I don't keep this page updated regularly since typing is painful, but some of these magazines continue asking for submissions regularly. But when I can I include special timely requests. However, most of the timely requests now are going in the New Links section. If you have anything special you think should go here, let me know.
Sonic Boom: We are seeking flash fiction/hybrid/experimental prose/haibun and artwork in a variety of mediums for our anniversary issue.
Duende: As Lorca wrote in 1933, “Seeking the duende, there is neither map nor discipline. We only know it burns the blood like powdered glass, that it exhausts, rejects all the sweet geometry we understand, that it shatters styles….” Art with duende “is rooted in our soil, full of thistles and sharp stones.”
“We are especially interested in collaborations between two or more writers, or between writers and visual artists. We accept submissions from writers working in English, or translating into English, from anywhere in the world.”
“If your poetry is rough-cut diamonds, slightly off-kilter; if your fiction will make us feel more human and less alone; if you enjoy exploration of new forms at the edges of the literary universe; if you can bring us elegant translations of literature from far corners of the globe; if your nonfiction is wild and honest; if your visual art is raw and earnest…show us. We want to see it.”
Please submit your prose under fiction, or nonfiction, or if it’s somewhere in the middle, as hybrid work. While we’re interested in writing that lies somewhat outside the realist vein, we seek work that situates itself first and foremost as literary.
Streetcake: the magazine for innovative, experimental, and visual writing we want to be excited by your
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Six Gallery Press publishes experimental and avant-garde fiction and poetry.
MIEL was established in 2011 to promote and publish difficult, innovative, intelligent, and deeply felt writing and visual art. The press’s initial focus on supporting and promoting the work of women writers has broadened, and MIEL’s remit is now to publish difficult, innovative, intelligent, and deeply felt writing and artwork, with a focus on work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.To state it plain: writers of color, queer writers, trans writers, women writers, writers with disabilities are all especially encouraged to send work.
We encourage women writers, non-binary writers, trans writers, and writers of color to send work.
We are looking for work that is experimental or conceptual without a disregard for embodiment.
We are looking for work that is socially aware and alive.
We are looking for work that feels like springtime.
We would love to see work about faith, religion, science, nature, history, power, philosophy, politics, art.
We like writing by W.G. Sebald, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Amy Leach, Karen Tei Yamashita, Maggie Nelson, Ander Monson, Anne Boyer, Simone White. We like Carolyn Forché's book BLUE HOUR and Julie Otsuka's THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC. We like Alberto Ríos' writing on 'magical realism'. We like Mary Ruefle's essays, especially "On Theme".
Star 82 Review: Star 82 Review especially looks for humanity, humility and humor. We like subtle, slightly gentle, slightly edgy works that don't just self-express, but that do communicate.
The Conium Review publishes innovative writing. We don't rely on quotas or preconceived notions of what's "publishable." We want your wildest settings and weirdest plots.
Fugue State Press publishes full length advanced, experimental novels.
The Café Irreal publishes fantastic fiction in the tradition of Franz Kafka, where the absurd, the unpredictable, and the unexplained is favored.
Uncanny is a magazine of sci-fi and fantasy. They want “intricate, experimental stories and poems with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs.” They pay 8 cents a word, up to 6,000 words.