We are looking for previously unpublished work for Issue 5

The deadline for submissions is 1st June 2014

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We’re after work that has to be seen or read to be understood and appreciated. If you can explain your work quite easily to your mates at a pub, then it’s probably not for us. We want funny, we want dark, we want darkly funny, we want surreal, we want experimental, we want surreally experimental, we want maniacal, we want the absurd.

We like writing: poems, prose, stories, snippets, plays, letters. Famous literary folk we like, although by no means an exhaustive list, include Kharms, Beckett, Barthelme, Gogol, Lu Xun, Poe, Thompson, Feneon, Blissett and Dick. We also like comics, clowns and jokers of many stripes. Failing all that, if it’s good, or if there’s a certain je ne sais quoi and it doesn’t use droll unnecessary French terms willy-nilly but is the sort of work to unashamedly use the term willy-nilly just because it has willy in it, or simply if we like it, we’ll publish it.

Then there’s the art: this whole thing’s going to look good – very good. We like cartoons, doodles, scribbles, and paintings. We like excessive colour, despite what we said about dark.

Submissions of up to 6 poems, 3 short stories are fine by us. Other stuff, well, it’s hard to be stringent since we don’t know exactly what to expect – but let’s say keep it under 3,000 words.

Please submit only once per reading period.

The Editors’ decision is final. We’ll look to let you know if your stuff’s going in within a few months of submission.

We will hold first publication rights.