CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: Experimental Fiction

Literary Chaos is looking for courageous, experimental writers in the spirit of Julio Cortazar, Donald Barthelme, and Italo Calvino. We will publish fiction authors and poets monthly.

Please do the necessary research to know what an experimental writer is.

Play with form, language, style, anything—and make it brilliant. When submitting to Lit Chaos, please do not send previously published work or simultaneous submissions. If you feel we have kept a piece for too long, tell us you are submitting it elsewhere. We should respond within a month although anything is possible. See more info for more info. After that:
Send submissions to editor@litchaos.com

In the subject line of your email, please include:

Submission — category — title.
For example, if you are submitting a poem titled "The Pack of Peanuts ", write:
"Submission — Poetry — The Pack of Peanuts"
In the body of the email, paste your story or poem(s) and attach it as a Word document with no smart quotes, please.
Include a short biography, and (if you think it's necessary) a one sentence summary of the piece.
For more info click here.
Also, consider our Cronopios' Flash Fiction Prize. The winner will earn cash and outstanding bragging rights! See Contest Rules!

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Third Coast publishes poetry, fiction (including traditional and experimental fiction, shorts, and novel excerpts, but not genre fiction), creative nonfiction (including reportage, essay, and memoir), drama (including both performed and unperformed pieces) and translations. We encourage new as well as established writers.
We recommend you look at an issue before submitting. You may order single issues (a current issue is $8; a back issue is $6) by sending a check made out to Third Coast; see address below. Write “Sample Current Issue” or “Sample Back Issue” on the envelope.
Third Coast considers only unpublished work. We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you notify us immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). Submissions without SASEs or international reply coupons cannot be acknowledged or returned. Direct your submission to the appropriate editors:

Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry or Drama Third CoastDepartment of EnglishWestern Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI 49008-5331


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Tahoma West Submission Guidelines

Accepting:
Any thought expressed in a creative, unique, specific, and purposeful way!
Previously unpublished work only in the following genres:
Fiction
There is a 3000 word limit on fiction writing, which includes short stories, experimental fiction, humor, stage plays, screenplays, comedies, horror, romantic, western, science fiction, or any imaginary writing.

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Coming April 4, 2007

SHALLA CHATS with Alice Andrews

“Biofiction Introduced”

by

Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Alice?


Alice teaches psychology with an evolutionary lens at the

State University of New York at New Paltz, and is the editor/publisher of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, an evolutionarily-informed interdisciplinary online journal. She is also the author of Trine Erotic, a novel that explores evolutionary psychology and other behavioral science themes.

Alice is currently working on a book (based on her essay with the same title, published at

Metanexus) called An Evolutionary Mind

(to be published as part of Imprint Academic's series: "Societas: Essays in Political and Cultural Criticism"), and plans to begin writing another novel soon.

only at:

www.shalladeguzman.com

What does Entelechy publish?

Heard of BIOFICTION?

Biofiction is not a neologism. (See below for its other uses and meanings.)

In the sense that I am using it, however, it is new; it refers to fiction or creative nonfiction that uses biological, neurological, psychological and/or evolutionary language and/or lenses. That is, a work of biofiction might explicitly deal with biological and /or evolutionary ideas, or it might incorporate biolanguage (see below). It may also do both, as my writing often, but not always, does.

For a while I used the term evolutionary fiction when writing about my own fiction and that of some others; but I soon realized that that term was too limiting (though I still use it in specific instances). At the same time that I felt evolutionary fiction was too restrictive, I was engaged in thinking about literature from a Darwinian and cognitive perspective and doing so primarily through a list called biopoets.

-Alice Andrews, editor, Entelechy: Mind & Culture

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Modern Drunkard Magazine (does not publish experimental fiction, but here is what it does like)

Make sure your piece is specifically about drinking. Specifically. Send your submissions to mailto:editor@moderndrunkardmagazine.comin either .txt or Microsoft Word .doc format. There's a large backlog, so it may be a while before you hear from us. If at all. If you don't hear from us within four months, you may deduce your submission wasn't selected. We edit for content and space, sometimes rather heavily. Be prepared for changes.

We accept all manner of fiction, though experimental fiction is less likely to be published. Hemingway, F.Scott, Mencken and Bukowski are good models to follow. The story should be imbued with drinking. If alcohol hasn't reared its lovely head by the second page, you're on the wrong track. Putting a drink in the hand of your protagonist does not a drinking story make. If you can replace the booze with coffee and the plot isn't affected, you're trying to pull a fast one. Avoid writing about writing and being a writer. And while it's commendable that you wrote the piece while hammered, that's no excuse for haphazard grammar and bizarre punctuation. Leave that to us, we're quite good at it. Exclamation points do not make a sentence more powerful. Not even triple exclamation points. The vast majority of our submissions are fiction, so realize the competition is ferocious. One to four thousand words.