INTERNATIONAL ZINE SCENE
Always Crashing is a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between. The team publish one print issue per year and feature online content year-round.
Editors, Jessica Berger and James Tadd Adcox, seek submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, video, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and non-fiction. The editors like work about ‘surfaces and form,’ things like discontinuity and things being broken. They also enjoy ‘work that strikes curious poses; is experimental, but ‘not avant-garde’. They like the aesthetic, the beautiful and the sublime as well as ‘the zany, the disgusting, the cute – particularly when pushed into strange and unfamiliar territories.’ Check out the back issues, read what is published and those guidelines.
Submit by email: submissions@ alwayscrashing.com
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but not reprints or multiple subs. Response time is ‘within 3 months’. There is payment, for first North American serial rights.
Website: www.alwayscrashing.com
Propagule is called by its editorial team ‘an independently-run convergence of the arts,’ and they focus on ‘fiction, music, visual works, theory, and more’. This is another zine with a team who like ‘the aesthetically novel, experimental, transgressive, and uncategorisable.’
Editors William Dempsey, David Reichek and Nick Siviter, seek short stories which are ‘intrepid with regard to experimentation and oddity’. They are not worried about ‘traditional genre divisions’ they ‘only care that it is high-quality, that it is well-written, and that it is interesting.’ Stories should be from 500 to 10,000 words.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but not multiple subs or reprints. Submit online at www.propagule.co
Deadline is 15 December. Response time is ‘reasonable’. Payment is $20 for first world serial rights, first world electronic rights, and non-exclusive world anthology reprint rights.
Gordon Square Review is published online biannually by an editorial team wanting to ‘showcase emerging writers nationwide and internationally’. The team seek submissions of prose fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. Read the examples at the website, and check the guidelines.
They enjoy ‘short stories, personal essays, and hybrid prose works’. Submit one piece of prose, no more than 5,000 words or one to three flash pieces of no more than 1,000 words in a single document. For poetry submit up to three in a single document. Submit through the website: www.gordonsquarereview.org
Simultaneous submissions are welcome but not multiple subs or reprints.
Deadline is 1 October. Response time is ‘slow to reasonable’. Payment is $25 per prose piece and $10 per poem for nonexclusive world English rights, and all rights revert to the author on publication.
The editorial team at Nunum are ‘crazy’ about flash fiction and urgently need more for the zine. But now the team are ‘mixing in the art we love with the literary form we live.’ They still want work which sends a message, a lasting message to the reader. Now they are going to blend the art with the words. Submit through the website: www. nunum.ca
No reprints, but simultaneous and multiple submissions are fine. Submit each piece in a separate file. Flash fiction up to 500 words must be formatted in a standard publishing format.
Response is ‘a month’. Payment is Can$20 for both flash fiction and art
Memoir Monday is a newsletter edited by Sari Botton and each week, the editors of Catapult, Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, and Oldster Magazine select their favourite new personal essay or memoir piece, which are then collected and published in ‘Memoir Monday’ newsletter. To go with these selected pieces writers may submit essays which have been published around the web.
Submit by Thursday of each week, by email, the title of the essay and a link to it. Sari recently launched First Person Singular, ‘a sub-newsletter’ for original personal essays, 1,500-2,500 words. She welcomes a diverse variety of authors, subjects and voices
Submit by email to memoirmonday@gmail.com or pitch2sari@gmail.com
Response time is ‘slow’. Payment is $200. Website: https://memoirmonday.substack.com
Rooted in Rights is a magazine with an editorial team who ‘produce media to amplify perspectives from the disability community.’ They ‘produce videos, blog posts, and social media campaigns that centre on people with disabilities.’
They want ‘reported and investigative articles, op-eds, creative non-fiction, personal essays, interviews, and short fiction on disability’. All work should ‘emphasise disability rights and justice,’ and be written by people who identify as disabled.
Submit with a pitch or a draft and a clear idea of where the work is going. Submit articles and blog pieces, 800-1,000 words, creative non-fiction and personal essays, interviews, reported features, essays, etc. Writers from any country are welcomed. Response time is ‘reasonable’. Payment is on a sliding scale, with the minimum being $150.
Submit through the website: https:// rootedinrights.org
The Guilty Crime Story Magazine
editor seeks good flash fiction for his website. He wants flash fiction, stories from 500 to 1,000 words, which are complete stories with a beginning a middle and an end. He has specific demands for the type of crime story he publishes. Whilst the topics may cover a wide range every story must be about criminals and from their perspective. Please avoid ‘Cosies. Police procedurals. Anything with a speculative element. Anything that glories in violence for the sake of violence, violence must be an integral part of the story.’ Detective stories will be a hard sell as will serial killers.
Submit by email: guiltycrimemag@gmail.com
Reprints, multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions will not be considered. Submit in standard format as a doc, docx, or rtf file. Response time is ‘within thirty days’.
Website: www.guiltycrimemag.com