INTERNATIONAL ZINE SCENE
US website McSweeney’s Internet Tendency provides ‘Daily humor almost every day’. Read the content at the website and the extensive guidelines, which are both informative and an excellent example of the kind of humour and writing that they are looking for.
Submit in the body of an email to the address for each section. Sections include humorous lists, ‘Reviews of New Food’ and ‘Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond’. Timely submissions are welcome for topical news responses.
Keep work to a maximum 1,200 words but note that shorter pieces are more readily accepted.
Average response time is ‘7.39 days’. There is payment for all accepted work, for first rights.
Website: www.mcsweeneys.net
The Squeaky Times is Australia’s satirical and humorous ‘Not The Real News’ website.
Read the content and guidelines at the website, then submit ‘satirical nonsense’ in the form of fake news articles, 25-300 words.
The team want humour but not ‘gore, erotica, political extremism, racism, homophobia, etc’. Submit a doc or rtf file or paste into the email body.
Response time is ‘around three weeks’. Payment is $2.50.
Details: The Squeaky Times, email: thesqueakytimes@gmail.com; website: https://thesqueakytimes.com
The Forge Literary Magazine is ‘open to all genres and voices, and stories with any background, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual and personal identity from all over the world’. Each submission is read anonymously by a rotating cast of editors with ‘wide-ranging and eclectic tastes’.
Submit fiction and nonfiction, not over 5,000 words and preferably under 3,000. Flash and micro prose are particularly welcome.
Submit through the website, where there is a submission fee after the first of each month. Response time is ‘currently four to eight months.’ Payment is $60 per piece regardless of length, ‘for exclusive worldwide English language rights for a period of three months.’
Website: https://forgelitmag.com
Eternal Haunted Summer is an ezine of poetry and short fiction about the heroes and divine entities of the world’s many pagan traditions. Everything published must have a pagan focus or otherwise interest its pagan readership.
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