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"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."
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Acceptance Rate
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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16
Total submissions tracked
69 days
Average response time
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
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Rights for published work
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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
