Every Pretentious Literary Magazine for Some Reason

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Жыл бұрын

There are plenty of fantastic magazines out there, of course. It's just that every now and then there are a few that...think rather highly of themselves.
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@ManCarryingThing Жыл бұрын

send us your punchiest writing that punches us in the face in a punchy punched kind of punch way

@maybelore 2 ай бұрын

eyyyyy, it's the man that carries!

@PowerHungryLizardman Жыл бұрын

Super accurate, except I was waiting for the part at the end where they finally say what kind of writing they want "We want all types of writing....just not any genre stuff, none of that sci-fi, horror, fantasy, romance, historical drama, mystery, comedy, action adventure crap...ya know...just the good stuff."

@Richardiii2 Жыл бұрын

I have read descriptions where it literally said "We accept all Genres" and immediately after "No Sci fi, Fantasy, genre romance or Mystery" lol.

@mattmorehouse9685 8 ай бұрын

I remember my college lit course had this massive collection of works, called the Bedford. It included it's own screed against genre fiction, as it was bad for being "made to be sold" Fantasy, sci fi, horror, romance, mystery, action, adventure, westerns- all crap according to the author. They even included an excerpt from a longer romance novel, specifically to show how crap all genre fiction was. Contrasted with a depressive, bleak and utterly joyless, work about a mother committing suicide. Oh, but the Classics^TM don't count. You can have Oedipus and Antigone and they don't count as fantasy... cause reasons.

@Rynewulf Жыл бұрын

University flashbacks, we had to find a literary magazine, read it and then write a short story aimed at submission to that magazine. Except 99% of all specific genre magazines are paid only and the majority are vague like this. I am sick with remembering

@genericallyentertaining Жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone else can relate to this pain.

@WasatchWind Жыл бұрын

The gripe with my university's literary journal: Was told in the creative writing club that submitting to it was a great way to start getting your work out there. Was told this by several members of the committee on said journal. Come to find out that the journal has not published fantasy or Sci fi stories in YEARS - ie, the genres most people in the club were interested in writing. Even fiction in general had a difficult time getting in, most of the entries apparently being poetry and non fiction.

@Rynewulf Жыл бұрын

@@WasatchWind how on earth did a creative writing club justify publishing non fiction?

@WasatchWind Жыл бұрын

Makes the whole long diatribe: "So do you publish science fiction and fantasy?" "what? BAH! This is a _literary_ journal my friend!"

@eucatastrophebooks Жыл бұрын

Definitely not eleven year old me trying to describe ordinary objects in a paragraph of adjectives 😂 Great sketch, man!

@OverlyAverageBen Жыл бұрын

General fiction? Do they want it to be only war fiction or can the general do other stuff too?

@genericallyentertaining Жыл бұрын

I personally write colonel fiction, but it's so hard to find a market for that.

@feelswriter Жыл бұрын

Kernel of truth there...

@The_Blazelighter Жыл бұрын

I prefer my fiction to be a bit more private, but I understand the general appeal of something with higher rankings.

@christopherbroms2508 Жыл бұрын

@@The_Blazelighter I have some major misgivings about such low ranking fiction. How does it appeal to the general audience?

@The_Blazelighter Жыл бұрын

@@christopherbroms2508 You'd be surprised at the quality and brilliance of low ranking fiction. If it recieved more promotion, then general audiences would definitely be on board. Even watered down fiction is quite admiralable in how it can gather together dedicated fans (Especially shippers. Whatever floats your boat I guess).

@joshuasims5421 Жыл бұрын

What Genre? If you have to ask, you can’t afford us…

@delectableworm3005 Жыл бұрын

Still waiting for this channel to inevitably blow up

@christopherbroms2508 Жыл бұрын

I just found it today, from my recommended, so I think that time may be close.

@amirhamza8924 Жыл бұрын

Where's the part where they turn away SFF stuff cause "that's not real literature"

@genericallyentertaining Жыл бұрын

You can send in SFF stuff, but you can't call it that; you have to say "magical realism" or "myth-inspired" or something.

@normanclatcher Жыл бұрын

Literally Fahrenheit 451.

@mattmorehouse9685 8 ай бұрын

@@genericallyentertaining Ah magical realism- it's like fantasy, only the magic is chaotic and not understood. Just like real life and the chaotic eldritch nature of the laws of physics. Or biology. Or geology. Yep, we know nothing about those.

@aidananderson1903 Жыл бұрын

Just realized that you are wearing different glasses for each person. Cool attention to detail!

@Taveren Жыл бұрын

There's something beautiful about the line literature is the food of the gods

@rev6215 Жыл бұрын

No but this is soooo accurate

@Richardiii2 Жыл бұрын

They also only pay in author's copies.

@atab6555 Жыл бұрын

This one was real good

@realNom2mooncow 9 ай бұрын

The quote is "raw and wriggling" (not raw and wiggling), correctly pronounced as "RAAAAaawwww, and WWWRRRIII[shakes head back in forth]GIGIGIIGIGIGIGIGLLLING"

@jeremiahunderwood6536 Жыл бұрын

Hey man im new to the literary magazine world. I have been rejected 11 times and currently have 9 pieces pending. I love the sun, carve, and The Paris review. ( even though i find the reviews poetry.... not that great alot of times) But i was wondering if you could give me some advice on which magazine to send like a Poe-ish, kafkaesque, short story to. Preferably print issue. Hope your well, thanks..

@writerinthewild._. Күн бұрын

One time I went to a writer's workshop and there was a writer who talked like this for every single critique he did. He went on to create a literary magazine. I'm not totally surprised. (He mansplained literature to literally a group of people that were in the top 7% of 10,000 applicants!!!)