What we’re looking for:
Fiction: Jubilant expressions of formal and linguistic play. Stories rendered out of life. Stories brought into life. Fugue and juxtaposition. Neologism as literary discipline. The sentence as basic unit of meaning. Fiction that seeks to make something of itself, rather than say something to us. No confusion between ‘I’ and the eye. The mind as landscape, time as matter, change as constant. Textured language. Style over everything. Inscrutability encouraged. We are more interested in findings than experiments. Ambition toward apotheosis.
Poetry: Work that stands on the outskirts, that produces original and strange effects, that loves the tradition, that is restless against the tradition, modernist and premodern, avant-garde and ancient. Above all, we look for the sense of deep, profound, impenetrable mystery that poetry can achieve when it is truly new and truly old.
Submission Guidelines:
Fill out the form: in subject line: SUBMISSION FICTION/POETRY
Fiction: Word doc or .PDF Up to 5,000 words. Single-spaced, serif-font (Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman preferred), justified margins, pages numbered. Novel Excerpts OK. All work should be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions welcome. (Note: Failure to follow the formatting guidelines will most likely result in immediate rejection)
Poetry: Send no more than 5 poems, in no more than seven pages. Exceptions may be made for longer poems and sequences. Poems should be previously unpublished. We accept simultaneous submissions.
Non-Fiction: Creative Non-Fiction up to 5,000 words. Experiments in the essay form. NO PERSONAL ESSAY… NO MEMOIR… (See Fiction formatting requirements)
Absolutely NO AI GENERATED/ASSISTED MATERIAL
