Call for Submissions: Always Crashing

Always Crashing is now open for submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and nonfiction (though we prefer not to be told if it’s nonfiction). 

 

We are interested in surfaces and form. We are interested in discontinuity and want to watch you break things. We want to read works that seek something via untruth, fantasy, artificiality, the plastic, deep superficiality, and attention to their own construction. We are interested in work that strikes curious poses; in the “experimental,” not as an avant-garde, but as a furthering of a subterranean literary tradition. We are interested, ultimately, in the aesthetic: the beautiful and the sublime, sure, but also the boring, the dumb, the merely interesting, the zany, the disgusting, the cute—particularly when pushed into strange and unfamiliar territories.

 

Always Crashing publishes one print issue each year and will feature online content year-round. We are headquartered in Chicago and Urbana, Illinois.

 

Submissions may be sent to:
 

submissionsATalwayscrashingDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

 

Please include your name and the word “SUBMISSION” in the subject line.

 

We do not (and will not) charge for submissions.