ELASTIC, the magazine of psychedelic art and literature, will debut in spring 2025, with generous support from Harvard and UC Berkeley. We’ll print art and writing that’s immersive, dreamlike, daring, and genre- and time-bending; that interrogates power by breaking form; and that acts to expand the mind and the possibilities of narrative.
Questions? Answers? Get in touch:
info@elasticmag.com
Submissions for our inaugural issue, on the theme of dying, are now open until September 23.
Elastic’s first issue, to be published in March 2025, will be on the theme of dying. Submit pitches or finished work until September 23 to:
There are so many ways to die. There are big deaths and little deaths, sudden deaths and slow dissolutions. We might print an essay in which a biologist is decomposed by his fungi, a short story on stellar death, kaleidoscopic renderings of wilting plants or decaying teeth or discarded fingernails, photographs of rotting fruit. Maybe the self at the center of a poem is extinguished in the piece’s marginalia. Maybe the narrative gradually unravels, deconstructing itself. We are looking for pieces that interpret the theme widely and playfully. Think transitory states, rebirth, decomposition, disappearance.
We’ll be publishing poetry, essays and short fiction (of up to 4,500 words), and visual art of all kinds. But the goal is to frequently and gleefully blur genre lines and expand the idea of the page and the canvas. We also welcome joint projects and work that combines visual and written elements. We pay relatively well for a small magazine.
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