We seek thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces. Think Olympics on a case of Red Bull. Think October in April. Think Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey.

Bending Genres is committed to publishing the best fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and microreviews from dedicated writers. We are open for submissions year-round. Our writer’s work has been included in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, Best Poetry, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Brooksie C. Fontaine is a coffee addict who got into college at fifteen and annoyed everyone there. She is a teaching assistant, illustrator, and MFA recipient. Her work has appeared in over thirty literary journals and anthologies, including trampset, Bending Genres, Literally Stories, Anti-Heroin Chic, Fahmidan Journal, and Ghost Parachute.



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Brooksie C. Fontaine is an obnoxious coffee addict who got into college at fifteen and annoyed everyone there. She is a teaching assistant, illustrator, and recipient of MFA degrees in English and Illustration. Her work has appeared in over thirty literary journals and anthologies, including trampset, Bending Genres, Defenestration Magazine, Eunoia Review, Aureation, Report From Newport, Boston Accent Lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, and more. Her Twitter is BrooksiesBooks, where she posts daily microfiction.


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Marie Cloutier (she/her) is a writer and poet. Her work has been published in Scribes Micro,  Bare Back Literary, and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir. Connect with her on her website, www.mariecloutier.com. 

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Marie Cloutier (she/her) is a writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Bending Genres, Bare Back Magazine , Neologism Poetry Review and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir. Her website is www.mariecloutier.com.  

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Marie Cloutier (she/her) is a writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Scribes Micro, Corvus Review, 10x10 Flash Fiction and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir. Her website is www.mariecloutier.com. 

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Marie Cloutier (she/her) is a writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Bending Genres, Dorothy Parker's Ashes , the Sheepshead Review and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir. Her website is www.mariecloutier.com.  

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Benjamin Davis (he/him) has stories and poems in several literary journals, including Wigleaf, Booth, Moon City Press, and Slippery Elm Press. His poem collection, The King of FU (Nada Blank, 2018), was such a smashing success it shocked the indie press who printed it into an early grave. He is now writing his first six novels. Find him on Chill Subs.


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Jae Casella is an emerging genderqueer poet and photographer. They live on the coast of Maine where they enjoy date nights with their wife, strolling the shoreline with their metal detector and snapping photos. Their favorite place to be is outside. Jae's poems have appeared in Wingless Dreamer, Red Rose Thorns Journal, Bending Genres, Epistemic Literary and are forthcoming in Maine Transgender Poetry Anthology 

Their photography website is https://jaecase.viewbug.com/. Their social media handle for Instagram is JammityJam.


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My name is Jae Casella. I am an elder genderqueer emerging poet and photographer living on the coast of southern Maine. My poems have appeared in Wingless Dreamer, Red Rose Thorns Journal, Bending Genres and Epistemic Literary. 

You can see my photography in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Light Journal, and on the walls of family and friends around the country.

My Instagram handle is @jammityjam. My photography website is jaecase.viewbug.com


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Rina Palumbo (she/her) is working on a novel and two nonfiction long-form writing projects alongside short fiction, creative nonfiction,  and prose poetry. Her work appears in The Hopkins Review, Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy, Bending Genres, Anti-Heroin Chic, Identity Theory, Stonecoast Review, et al.


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I discovered Bending Genres thanks to Chillsubs! I was thrilled to have my first CNF piece accepted, and super quickly too! :)

A Perfect Day in Köln

"Nobody ever tells you how hard it is to kill someone, to extinguish their life. Nobody tells you how much your muscles ache in trying to strangle a struggling man, almost twice your size, as he attempts to throw you off."

The Matchmaker

I don’t remember at which rally I met Brad. He always went to them alone, wearing the brightest pink pussyhat and a tight “Future is Female” t-shirt. He was fit but awkward and a women’s rights superfan. Sometimes, I caught him talking to himself.

Virtue Signals

I was beginning to get very tired of sitting secluded in South Korea and having nothing to do and was considering in my own mind (as well as I could, for the hot day made me feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of going down...

Expatriating Down a Rabbit Hole

"One night years later after Kristen and I were married, we were arguing. I don’t
remember what we were arguing about. By this point we argued a lot."

Baggage

a reminder of room three's august

"bird watching is a form of suicide prevention. my body is a discovered science experiment, an undertested variable. field notes: i react negatively to touch now. i am not magnetic."

If A took everything

You aren’t positive you’re a couple until you find it hard to breathe. She sweeps in, magnificent in her mutability. You might have met her on the plane, attending that long-delayed concert or during your first trip back to the movies. 

Mistress #19

How To Build A Rocket

Alive

breadcrumbs

"...But still, memory is what returns without returning..."

I Try Not to Place a Brow in

"I made up the word to see if I could get a horny dork like Megan to laugh in science class. But she didn’t. Instead she wrote back, 'what the shit is an ardorglyph?'"

Ardorglyphs of the West

"the warbling spring slopes down to touch your shoulder/
where blouse slips below socket & you remember/
the way sun was a kind of melancholy hope in those days"

Anachronisms (Three Poems)

"First things first. Even though I’ve been lithographed: “TEELEAF® The Fortune Telling Game” I am not, in fact, a mere parlor game. I am a fortune teller’s assistant."

Divination with Marbles

Of Course

Transplant Diaries #4

A compulsive liar weaves a tangled web of deceit in his new relationship.

The American Association of Liars

At the university graduation, a family looks unhappy

I was first diagnosed with cancer, but then it turned out it was actually many tiny crabs inside of me.

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