Have You Submitted To Paragraph Line Recently?

Have you submitted to Paragraph Line recently? They’ve been on hiatus for a bit while the head of that mag (Jon Konrath) did various things like work on publishing and promoting Alpha Mike Foxtrot by John Sheppard and his own book Thunderbird (both excellent books and heartily recommended). However, they’re getting ready to ramp up again and for the first time in a while, they are taking submissions.

What do they dig? Well, if it’s freaky, they’re probably interested. Here’s a quote from their submittable submit page:

We publish two things: absurdist and outsider fiction.

Absurdist: we like stuff that’s funny, strange, experimental, offensive, and that has a serious WTF factor. If your writing is the literary equivalent of Kentucky Fried Movie, we want to see it.

Outsider: low-lifes, junkies, dope-heads, strippers, whores, beats, degenerates, and the marginalized; we’re big fans of Bukowski, but we don’t just want clones.

We’re looking for flash and super-short stories that defy genre. We like to read stuff we haven’t seen before. I realize everyone says that, but seriously, don’t give us the same cookie-cutter MFA story as everyone else.

No poetry.

As an example, here’s a link to a story of mine they previously published titled “Ideas: Where to Get Them and What to Do When They Won’t Leave.”

Anyway, if you’ve got something fun and weird, check them out. It’s a good mag and a cool thing to be a part of.