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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
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Acceptance Rate
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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Total submissions tracked
68 days
Average response time
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
Examples
4 pieces from Chill Subs people
