Sometimes I come up with an idea for a post for my blog and I think, hey, this is actually pretty good. Then, this may seem confusing, I think, this is too good for my blog …
My ultimate goal is to get published (as I’ve written about a few times … here, and here for example). With that in mind, it makes sense that I would want to do something else with my occasional gems (or at least what I consider to be gems).
One complaint I have is that I wish there were more places to submit my brand of weird. I feel like I would have better luck if I was a dramatic/full of confusing symbolism short story writer, or a sci-fi writer – it seems like there’s oodles of that stuff. And poetry? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a goofball poem in a magazine, just the serious and artsy stuff. (The type that I read and say, “I really like the language in this poem but I have no idea what it’s saying.”) A number of magazines I have looked through to see if they would accept submissions from someone with my style have not panned out.
What’s My Point?
I do have a few places that I send things to. I figured I would write a post on this because it might force me to look up more magazines/popular online sources and then maybe I would quit being lazy and send more submissions out with fingers and toes crossed.
Bonus: I’ll be a kind internet neighbor to other quirky humor/oddball bloggers out there and share places that I think are a good fit for that particular category.
Here’s Where You Can Send Your Brilliant Quirky/Humor Story:
Shouts and Murmurs, New Yorker
- Submission Info for them (fiction allowed)
- Submission info for them (fiction allowed)
Mad Magazine (I have to be honest, I haven’t read one of these so I haven’t researched this … I think you need some art attached and I stink at drawing so I’ve never looked into them seriously)
- Submission info for them (fiction allowed)
Cracked.com (I’ve only read occasional things here and they haven’t been the type I write … I should look at this more though …)
- Submission info for them (fiction allowed)
McSweeney’s Quarterly (I’m reading an issue for the first time now and it seems like more literary fiction)
The Believer Magazine (I just subscribed to this so … I’ll get back to you, but I’m guessing memoir type essays)
If you are reading this and you know of another great source for that kind of writing, please let me know!!
If you add a good source in the comments I will be sure to link back to your blog/twitter/whatever when I add your revision to my post.
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