Literary
Mainstream
Experimental
Open to All / Most Genres
Open to all / most themes

We're looking for fiction and poetry mostly, but we'll look at nonfiction too. As a wise person once said, whatever fits the filigree. We're interested in finding stories about drifters and hustlers and dreamers finding beauty in things they never thought they would. Or stuff about fighting or gambling. Or about doin' it. Tell me a good story, preferably one I could tell my favorite bartender. If you have enjoyed any of the following writers, we might have something in common: Martin Amis, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Denis Johnson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Tod A., Paul Auster, the Coen brothers, Alan Weisbecker, William S Burroughs, John Welter, Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Waits, Stephen King, Gibby Haynes, Roald Dahl, Cormac McCarthy, and Hubert Selby, Jr. If you're still unsure, just take a look through our archives. We've built a reputation as a journal that defies categorization. We like to flirt with mess around with those genre conventions. We like a good ending. We like good dialogue. We like strange lingo. Style as much as substance. Content more than context.