MAGPIE ZINE
There are presently no open calls for submissions.
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welcome, feral storyteller!
Magpie Zine is a quarterly online publication. Each issue is a themed collection of somewhat unusual, possibly urgent, and slightly unhinged human expressions, teetering between a rock and a highbrow. The mag was born from an affinity for early underground zines—subversive, intelligent, uniquely collaborative, and vigorously imaginative. We are devoted to the spirit of that counterculture and the heart and soul of originality. We support writers and artists whose aesthetic is an experience. View our fall issue here →
we seek the following:
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art—artwork, photography, collage—humor, and the wildly unclassifiable. The prose word limit is 1500. For poetry, submit 1-3 poems. For visual art, submit 2-4 pieces. We strongly favor work with depth and unique insight. Life is absurd, and we like being moved in unexpected ways by its absurdity.
Humor is all about humor. We’re looking for terrible pitches, delightful fangirl 4th-grade book reports, and hand-drawn pie charts. More on humor subs →
publication basics:
Submissions must be previously unpublished, original, and from the original creator. (Shared on your personal social media or personal blog is fine. We don’t consider this as a publication.) We only accept stories written by corporeal humans. We don’t consider AI-written stories. For artwork, we just ask that it not be previously published online or in a major print publication.
We cannot offer payment at this time, but submissions are always free. Only submit to one category per reading period.
If we have already published your work, please wait three issues before sending us more. If a piece was previously declined, please do not resubmit it unless encouraged to do so.
Currently, our response time is max three months.