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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

Response Time

469 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • 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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Track submission

6

Total submissions tracked

469 days

Average response time

0%

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

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

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

Active on social media

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