Talk Vomit is a literary magazine based out of Massachusetts that harbors a willful longing for when the internet was still fun. We publish essays, short stories, reviews, and experimental prose.

Talk Vomit is a literary magazine based out of Massachusetts that harbors a willful longing for when the internet was still fun. We publish essays, short stories, reviews, and experimental prose.

We have a particular affinity for literary horror. For more details about how to submit your work, please visit our submission guidelines.

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Talk Vomit

Our summer edition theme is “it’s complicated,” however you interpret that. You might consider: how you feel about your responsibilities, your situationship, your mother. Parenting, working, and art-making might also be fodder. Most of us spend our time living in the grey. To that end, what can’t you or your characters make up their mind about? 

It's Complicated

You might consider: how you feel about your responsibilities, your situationship, your mother. Parenting, working, and art-making might also be fodder. Most of us spend our time living in the grey. To that end, what can’t you or your characters make up their mind about? 

especially those in the 300-600 word range — unless you’re baking in some first-person narrative and lengthier criticism. If that’s the case, follow our general nonfiction word limit.

Our winter edition theme is “remember that” — and yes, it’s up to interpretation. What is the cost of memory? What is our relationship to archives? Think: correspondence, photographs, diaries, and regular old memories stored in our brains. What does it mean to allow a memory to pass into oblivion, and is that sometimes for the best when we consider the pitfalls of nostalgia or the environmental impact of digital storage? We’re interested in the complexities and multitude of feelings associated with what it means to remember.

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