Unlikely Stories Mark V

The magazine seeks intellectually stimulating, experimental fiction, including stories expressing the opinions of people who do not exist and work engaging with social realities. Send no more than three stories or 8,000 words at a time; query first for a single story longer than 8,000 words. The magazine is taking a brief break from reading submissions, but invites submissions with slower response times.

The magazine seeks creative nonfiction that stimulates thought, especially firsthand accounts of activism and attempts to bring about sociopolitical change. Send no more than three stories or 8,000 words at a time; query first for a single piece longer than 8,000 words. The magazine is taking a brief break from reading submissions, but invites submissions with slower response times.

Spoken-word submissions are primarily sought as videos, with occasional audio tracks accompanying published poetry; send them to the poetry editor and consult the instructions for .mp3 and .mp4 submissions. The magazine is taking a brief break from reading submissions, but invites submissions with slower response times.

The magazine seeks socially relevant and radically experimental poetry, including boundary-pushing work, translations, Spanglish, Hawaiian Pidgin, and other English-adjacent patois. Send no more than six poems or ten pages at a time; contact the editors first about a single poem longer than ten pages. The magazine is taking a brief break from reading submissions, but invites submissions with slower response times.