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Guidelines

"Defunct is a celebration of what is over, & what isn’t yet. We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost."

"Defunct is a celebration of what is over, & what isn’t yet. We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

1-8 months

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

7 genres

Fiction

Max pieces: 5

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Nonfiction

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Hybrid

Max pieces: 5

genre-bendy things max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Review

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 1

reviews of defunct things

Translation

Max pieces: 5

translations of all genres. max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Wtf is genre, send anything

Max pieces: 5

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Fiction

Max pieces: 5

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Nonfiction

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Hybrid

Max pieces: 5

genre-bendy things max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Review

Max words: 2500

Max pieces: 1

reviews of defunct things

Translation

Max pieces: 5

translations of all genres. max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Wtf is genre, send anything

Max pieces: 5

max 5 pieces of short work, 1 piece of long work

Statistics

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Track submission

16

Total submissions tracked

69 days

Average response time

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Average acceptance rate

15 days

Fastest response time

121 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable.

Cover letters

Cover letters aren’t required, but are welcome. If you send a cover letter, please tell us what we need to know about you in order to meet your work on its own terms—we care a lot more about your identity and where you’re coming from than we care about your credentials or accolades. And we would love to know how you found us!

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

We want more queer submissions! More translations from non-European languages! More genre fiction (by that we mean sci-fi, ecofabulism, fantasy, etc.)! We want more essays! We want more genre-bendy things!

About the Magazine

Founded in 2010 | United States

Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re funky. We can be fancy when we want to. Our contributors bring back the dead, salvage the past, reveal their obsessions. We’re interested in questioning functional systems that no longer serve us, and broadcasting voices that have been told they don’t belong. Send us your manifestos, speculations, elegies, reincarnations, ars poeticas, recipes, & what we haven’t realized we want, yet. Enliven us.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Erin Stalcup

Editor-in-Chief

Will McDonald

Managing Editor

Lacey Cohen

Managing Editor