Swink

This project is believed to be defunct. (May 2014)

About

Swink lives to work with and publish the work of new, emerging, and experimental writers. We like the the marginal and the hybrid, the cunning, the whimsical, and the gleefully odd, the overtly silly, the maniacally formal, the obsessively structured, the colloquial, the discursive, the open-hearted, the humble, and we applaud the messy results of interesting risks. Each month we offer new fiction, essays, poetry, and category-defying work in our three departments: Wit's End (humor), You Are Here (pieces about place), and Dead Letter Office (epistles never sent).

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published 12 x per year

Collapse section Fiction Believed Defunct

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Unknown

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: No specific word count limits known (our definition: up to 1000 words).
Short Story: No specific word count limits known (our definition: 1000 to 7500 words).

Styles:

Unknown

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Unknown

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Essay: No specific word count limits known.

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Unknown

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Unknown

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Unknown

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026