Regular Submission Guidelines

 

What we're looking for:

Literary Chaos Magazine is looking for courageous, experimental writers in the spirit of (but not imitating) Julio Cortazar, Donald Barthelme, and Italo Calvino. We will publish fiction, artwork, flash movies, rants, and poetry monthly. Flash art, short movies, photography, and art are also widely encouraged. Please do the necessary research to know what an experimental writer/artist is. Play with form, language, point-of-view, style, anything—and make it brilliant. When submitting to Lit Chaos, do not send previously published work. We should respond within a month although anything is possible. This means simultaneous submissions are not allowed. We have recently been killed by numerous, and sudden (one author waited about 8 hours) retractions and have therefore had to change our policy on this.

Please include this at the bottom of your email:

I hereby grant permission to publish and archive my work and understand that after the issue in which my work is printed all rights return to me, the artist.

Where to send submissions:

SUBMIT to litk.os@gmail.com or submit.k.os@gmail.com

A note about what you need in a submission:

In the subject line of your email, please include: Submission — category — title. For example, if you are submitting a poem titled "The Pack of Peanuts", write: "Submission — Poetry — The Pack of Peanuts" In the body of the email, paste your story or poem(s) and attach it as a Word document with no smart quotes, please. Also, a hello or hi Ra! or hi MJ wouldn't hurt. Our names can be found at the Masthead. Link on the left. Include a short biography, and (if you think it's necessary) a one sentence summary of the piece.

Art and Videos

If you're sending art, please make the titles web-friendly. If you have a piece named "C4 the final frontier" we cannot upload a file with a name with spaces and weird characters. Instead, call the file "frontier" or "c4_frontier". There should be no spaces and no special characters for file names. Thanks.

For video, we ask that you use yousendit.com or upload it with a "litchaos.com" watermark thoughout the entirety to revver.com. If you have any questions, please ask before sending.

 

 

Audio Issue Submission Guidelines:

We are beginning to collect work for the litchaos.com (downloadable) audio issue.

• send print poem or short fiction with an audio file in mp3 format
• send audio work. You can send mash-ups, music, short radio plays, whatever you can dream up
• then send it

to submit.k.os@gmail.com

We're not yet sure when this issue will be ready but it should be one of its kind.

 

Print Issue #2 Submission Guidelines:

Closed. We will inform you when #3 is going to be considered. Due to excessive backlogging no new submissions will be read for print issues now.