Send your stuff to seriouslitmag AT gmail.com. Let me know what category you’re submitting to in the subject line.

 

What I generally look for in each category:

 

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I personally lean more toward experimental / raw / weird fiction. However, I won’t turn down something more traditional if it’s really well-written.

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Whether it’s a voice-driven piece that takes place inside the speaker’s head or it's one with a well-defined world and characters, I’m mainly concerned with how it affects me emotionally. If it can actually make me laugh or cry, I’ll probably publish it.

 

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There are so many styles and approaches to poetry these days that I’m really open to anything. 

 

As with fiction, I like something that can strike me viscerally. If it takes five stanzas to do it, send me five stanzas. Go easy on the epic poems, though—this is just some crappy online journal.

 

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I’m not looking for intelligent argumentative essays for this category (even though I might like reading them elsewhere). And if you have more conventional memoirs, they might not do well here either.

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I want to hear actual stories from your life—messy break-ups, that fight you had with your mom or dad, that one time you bailed your degenerate uncle out of jail, etc.

 

If it’s bad enough to upset your boss, I’ll probably take it.