Menagerie publishes fictions, essays, and poems. We believe in sentences so sharp they draw blood, the strange and inexplicable, the wild and weird and uncanny, words in thickets, clusters, and flocks, pieces that move us beyond caring what others think about said pieces.
Things we like: fictions ala Borges, Link, Calvino, & Sparks; weird lyric essay; engagements with the environment and natural world; poems that explode form; bricolage, masala, & sagul sagul; forays into the omnipresent information-saturated online architecture we live in.
Things we don’t: lukewarm prose, sentences bereft of emotion, formulaic attempts at being on trend, conformity, pat endings, sentiment-drenched rhyming poems, neat and orderly stories.
We care about writers and artists. That means if you’ve entrusted your work to us, you’ll get a response. And we pay $50 per acceptance (e.g. one piece of prose or 1-3 poems). Because it’s important we value what you’ve made. Menagerie is open year round; subs are free till we hit our monthly cap, so get in early. Tip Jar subs are always open.
We’ll do our level best to promote your work, pairing each piece with original artwork, and providing social posts you can use on your own channels. It’s our hope that Menagerie will serve as an accelerator for bringing your work into the world and getting it noticed.
We observe the following guidelines:
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
- Please submit to only one category at a time.
- Poetry submissions may include 3-5 poems at once.
- Stories and essays should be no more than 5K.
- Please expect a response time of 30-60 days.
In short: if you’ve written something and don’t know what to call it, we want to see it. Our menagerie is vast and unending, and contains all size and shape of curios.
Perhaps yours will soon be one of them.
Submission link here.
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