LIT Magazine is the brainchild of the Masters in Fine Arts of Creative Writing at the New School, where diversity, cultural critique, and the right of every artist to share their story, provide the foundation of our editorial vision.


LIT Magazine is an online publication accepting Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre, Translation, Book Reviews, and Art. 

Magazines seeking experimental, hybrid, offbeat, dissonant, and unconventional work that doesn't conform to traditional techniques, structures, or conventions. Editor picks from Wild Roof Journal.

Where to Publish Experimental Pieces

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We’re interested in many types of fiction at Lit, up to and including work that can be called "experimental." But what we are most excited to publish are simply stories we haven’t read before. 

This may seem obvious. However, our tastes in fiction tend toward the unconventional for a reason: we read hundreds of fiction submissions a year, and unfortunately we end up reading the same types of stories many different times. We often receives stories that fall into several common archetypes: the invincible-protagonist-with-a-heart-of-gold story, the bad break-up story, the university campus story, the middle-aged divorce story, and others. Therefore, the best submissions in this category will tell an uncommon story, or tell a common story in a different way, or in a different prose style. We believe that archetypal ground is best tread deliberately.   

Short stories or independently coherent novel excerpts are considered. Flash fiction is also considered, but should ideally be submitted in multiples. We do not accept hard genre (fantasy, sci-fi etc), but do appreciate other forms of non-realist work. We do not accept young adult fiction.

Prose - Fiction

We accept jpeg images of painting, illustration, photography, collage, multimedia, and experimental work.
Submit your work with a cover letter that details the following:
 

  Full Name
  Website (or online portfolio)  
  Location
  Contact Email
  A short bio (150-200 words)
  Social Media handles
  A minimum of 1 and maximum of 6 images of your work. Include title of each piece (if any) and medium.

At Lit, we want to read non-fiction that is aware of itself.

The ideal non-fiction work understands the archival, narrative, and methodological approaches that the medium demands. We are excited the most by personal essays with a strong narrative voice. We want to read work that makes us feel confident in the author’s perspective, and that goes beyond the simple retelling of a true event. Creative non-fiction is also encouraged, especially if the author is comfortable in experimenting with the form. Standard essays on literary subjects are best left as homework assignments.

Prose - Non-fiction

Poetry submissions should be no more than 3 poems or 7 pages.

Poetry

Book Reviews

Hybrid prose works generally experiment with non-traditional stylistic forms. This category is not just for works that defy casual interpretation, but also works that include elements generally reserved for non-prose writing.
At Lit, we are interested in hybrid prose that is aware of the tension between fiction and non-fiction, and wants to exploit, reify, and expand those terms, but not be contained by them. If it’s too prose-y to be a poem, but not clearly a short story or an essay, it might belong here. But this is not a category for the unsure – on the contrary, the best examples of hybrid prose are always the most deliberate.

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