6 Lit Mags You Gotta Submit To This Week
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Mad (magazine)
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The Bowery Review's founder Tim Latterner wrote for MAD magazine. Understanding MAD's influential role in American humor publishing—from its founding in 1952 through its cultural impact on satire and comedy—provides valuable context for evaluating new humor magazines in this tradition.
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Little magazine
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This article discusses multiple independent literary magazines (lit mags), a publishing form with rich history dating to modernist movements. Understanding the little magazine tradition—from The Dial to Paris Review—illuminates why these small, often unpaid publications remain vital to literary culture.
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The Bowery Review: NY’s Best and Only Humor Magazine | Theme: Funny Short Stories → Deadline: Nov 28 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 2 days | 300+ followers — “The Bowery Review is looking for funny short stories, poems, cartoons, gags, and jokes! Please send us what you’ve got to theboweryreview@gmail.com.”
Our one cent: This is a brand new lit mag focused on funny stuff—what’s not to love? Started by Tim Latterner who was a former writer at MAD, National Lampoon, CollegeHumor and Playboy, I feel like we can certainly expect cool things from this mag. Get in first before they blow up!
Prosetrics The Literary Magazine | Theme: Aurora → Deadline: Dec 31 | Fee: No | Pay: No | Open for Fiction, Multimedia, Poetry | ☑︎ Sim Subs | ✖️ Reprints | R: 14 days | A: 6% | 1.5K+ followers | Netherlands | 2022 — “An independent literary magazine that publishes poets, writers, artists, both traditional and digital, and photographers.”
Our one cent: Another beautiful new-ish lit mag publishing across genres, they are fully self-funded and do not do any ads or sponsorships. I must say I have a soft spot for mags that have these kind of ethos and I’m always rooting with extra gusto for their success! Prosetrics is both print and digital and they’re currently open for a themed call coming out in the New Year. Send you word evoking “the
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