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"Here at Untoward we greatly value what’s humorous. Untoward’s Mission Statement might best be understood as follows: we want fiction that’s funny in some way, as we see it, laugh out loud, gently stated, or suchlike."
"Here at Untoward we greatly value what’s humorous. Untoward’s Mission Statement might best be understood as follows: we want fiction that’s funny in some way, as we see it, laugh out loud, gently stated, or suchlike."
Vibe
Weird / outsider / wtf even is it
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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
2 genres
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Short Form: 1500 words, Long Form: 5000 words
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Short Form: 1500 words, Long Form: 5000 words
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Statistics
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Total submissions tracked
469 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
469 days
Fastest response time
469 days
Slowest response time
How to submit
Process
We use Submittable.
Cover letters
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
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Rights for published work
Authors do retain copyright on all works. What we ask for is one-time electronic rights. Rights revert to the author following publication in Untoward. Also, know that we may want to publish your work in a print anthology, etc. It could happen!
Additional info
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About the Magazine
Founded in 2010 | United States
If you’re thinking of submitting it might help you to know we love and admire the following writers (and encourage you to read them, as well): George Saunders, Samantha Irby, Amelia Gray, Etgar Keret, Lindsay Hunter, Lorrie Moore, Dorothy Parker, Percival Everett, Donald Barthelme, Patrick Somerville, Shirley Jackson, Jane Bowles, Robert Walser, xTx, Kurt Vonnegut, Jac Jemc, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Alissa Nutting, Roxane Gay, Jane Austen, Franki Eliot, Aimee Bender, Ottessa Moshfegh, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Machado de Assis, Russell Edson, Daniil Kharms, Ishmael Reed, Ben Loory, James Tate, Friedrich Nietzsche, Amber Sparks, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Gaddis, Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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 :)
Matt Rowan
Editor-in-Chief
Examples
1 pieces from Chill Subs people
