God's Cruel Joke
Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Last updatedGod's Cruel Joke is a magazine seeking experimental, boundary-pushing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, reviews, and mixed media with a speculative, surreal, or transgressive edge.
Response time info: no longer than three months
Read the full guidelines at godscrueljokelit.com↗Submission calls
Open to: 18+
Looking for fiction that explores the stranger, more dangerous waters of the human condition; especially interested in the Dionysian, scatological, surreal, absurd, existential, and unhinged; no strict word limit but do not send novels; up to 3 pieces of flash fiction per submission; only one submis
Open to: 18+
Accepting essays, memoirs, and reviews that explore the stranger, more dangerous waters of the human condition; only one submission per reading period.
Open to: 18+
Seeking poetry that breaks down barriers in theme and style; up to 3 poems per submission; only one submission per reading period.
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