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Every now and then we all feel a little Anomalous.
We welcome submissions of literary works of texts (poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation) and hybrid, muti- and new media, audio or video literary works, and images. We realize literary is a slippery term, and we most assuredly do not mean the fifth definition as listed on Dictionary.com. Neither do we think of the term as exclusive—H.G. Wells and Anaïs Nin created great works of literature. If it’s good, it’s good. Period.
We’re not sure that we can explain our aesthetic in a way that makes sense, so if you’re thinking of sending us your work, take a look at what we’ve already published. It’s all online and free. We want works that challenge us, and challenge you, to move outside our comfort zones, individually and collectively, and socially and anti-socially, and liminally and subliminally, and into spaces new and old and musty and fresh.
Learn more about who we are and what we’re about here.
We only accept electronic submissions.
Text: Submit your work through our submissions manager
Art: We are interested in presenting series of works that avoid the illustrative. The art is considered with the same seriousness (or frivolity or joy or pain) as our literary selections. If you think your work would fit, send it our way.
Chapbooks: Anomalous Press is a very small press, and we don’t have the resources to open for general submissions for chapbooks. Instead, we keep an eye on our favorite journals (our own especially!), and go to readings and generally participate in the literary community, and listen to the suggestions of our authors and friends. We may run a contest again in the future, so if you’re interested in getting our news, please sign up to be on our email list.
Everything Else: Email what you’ve got, in whatever format you have it in.
Make sure that your name is IN THE FILE NAME of whatever you’re sending to us. If you feel that genre is important, and is not necessarily clear, also indicate what genre you intend your work to fall under.
Please include a brief bio.
We want to make sure everyone gets their fair share of our attention, so please limit your submission to 5 poems, or 3500 words of prose at a time.
Translators are encouraged to include a note on the translation, which clearly doesn’t count towards the submission limit.
Anything else, well, use your best judgement. Having good judgement says a lot about a person, and we are prepared to trust yours. Don’t betray that trust.
If you have questions, email with the subject line QUERY.
Other stuff:
We only accept submissions during the months of March, July, and November. Feel free to query if we haven’t responded within two months.
Please don’t send anything that’s been previously published. We probably won’t check, but we’re asking nicely.
We accept simultaneous submissions, but please tell us if we missed the chance to publish your work immediately.
We seek first English serial rights for the works we accept, with all other rights reverting to the author after publication. But we want credit for recognizing your brilliance in any future publications of the work, please.
Translators are responsible for securing the rights to publish the translation from the original rights holder. Please include in your submission a note indicating where you are in this process.
We publish an audio version of the issue, which means that if your work is accepted you’ll be asked to make a recording of it for us to use. We can help you figure out how to record your work, but if you’re submitting make sure you’re down with a fully-accessible audio publication of the work.
We can’t pay our contributors right now. This is a project funded by love and willpower. Maybe someday, if the funding fairy graces us with an income stream, we can divert that stream to our contributors. But right now, you get our love.
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