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"An electronic magazine of literature, art, and culture that attempts a direct engagement with society and sociopolitical issues. We believe that art and philosophy are synonymous, and that they are the appropriate source of all social activism and political thought."

"An electronic magazine of literature, art, and culture that attempts a direct engagement with society and sociopolitical issues. We believe that art and philosophy are synonymous, and that they are the appropriate source of all social activism and political thought."

Vibe

Weird / outsider / wtf even is it

Response Time

4-8 weeks / 68 days

Acceptance Rate

100%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • 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 words: 8000

Max pieces: 3

Please send no more than three stories, or no more than 8,000 words, at a time. If you would like to send a single story longer than 8,000 w...

Nonfiction

Max words: 8000

Max pieces: 3

Please send no more than three stories, or no more than 8,000 words, at a time. If you would like to send a single story longer than 8,000 w...

Poetry

Max pieces: 6

Please send up to six poems or ten pages at a time. If you have a single poem that is longer than ten pages, drop us a line first and let us...

Review

We love reviews of small press books, as well as reviews and criticism of more mainstream works.

Art

Min pieces: 6

Max pieces: 9

We prefer to present virtual galleries of work by an artist or artistic team. To facilitate that, please send six to nine .jpg files.

Audio

We are interested in showcasing and promoting the works of musicians who are working to change the definition of musical genres. When we fea...

Video

movies, music, spoken word videos, humor We’re happy to embed YouTube or Vimeo videos. We’re also happy to embed .mp4s directly, but please ...

Fiction

Max words: 8000

Max pieces: 3

Please send no more than three stories, or no more than 8,000 words, at a time. If you would like to send a single story longer than 8,000 w...

Nonfiction

Max words: 8000

Max pieces: 3

Please send no more than three stories, or no more than 8,000 words, at a time. If you would like to send a single story longer than 8,000 w...

Poetry

Max pieces: 6

Please send up to six poems or ten pages at a time. If you have a single poem that is longer than ten pages, drop us a line first and let us...

Review

We love reviews of small press books, as well as reviews and criticism of more mainstream works.

Art

Min pieces: 6

Max pieces: 9

We prefer to present virtual galleries of work by an artist or artistic team. To facilitate that, please send six to nine .jpg files.

Audio

We are interested in showcasing and promoting the works of musicians who are working to change the definition of musical genres. When we fea...

Video

movies, music, spoken word videos, humor We’re happy to embed YouTube or Vimeo videos. We’re also happy to embed .mp4s directly, but please ...

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Track submission

3

Total submissions tracked

68 days

Average response time

100%

Average acceptance rate

60 days

Fastest response time

76 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

Please email the appropriate editor.

Cover letters

Please feel free to send a bio of up to 100 words, and/or a headshot of yourself, which might be resized upon publication.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

We don’t care what font you send your work in. We don’t care if you attach it or paste it in the body of an email. We disrecommend including your full address and phone number when writing to some people on the Internet you don’t know, but feel free to do that if you think you’re supposed to.

Rights for published work

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

Additional info

Well I just think their submission guidelines are a work of art

About the Magazine

Founded in 1998 | United States

Unlikely Stories Mark V is the new incarnation of the electronic magazine, Unlikely Stories, which has been published on the Web, more-or-less continually, since 1998. We publish poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, including firsthand accounts of sociopolitical activism. We publish galleries of visual art, music, spoken word, other forms of aural art, and audiovisual presentations, by which we usually mean short movies, but we might mean something else. We publish criticism of all these art forms, when that criticism engages with the reader and aspires to art itself.

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 :)

Jonathan Penton

Editor-in-Chief

Leona Strassberg Steiner

Art Director