SUBMISSIONS
Always Crashing is looking for submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, video, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and nonfiction (though we prefer not to be told if it’s nonfiction).
We are interested in surfaces and form. We are interested in discontinuity and want to watch you break things. We want to read works that seek something via untruth, fantasy, artificiality, the plastic, deep superficiality, and attention to their own construction. We are interested in work that strikes curious poses; in the “experimental,” not as an avant-garde, but as a furthering of a subterranean literary tradition. We are interested, ultimately, in the aesthetic: the beautiful and the sublime, sure, but also the boring, the dumb, the merely interesting, the zany, the disgusting, the cute—particularly when pushed into strange and unfamiliar territories.
We publish new work online every two weeks, and print issues sporadically. You may familiarize yourself with our online edition here, or check out our print issues—including digital versions of our back issues—here.
Submissions with audio-visual components are particularly welcome. Feel free to send a link with a password to your audio-visual submission.
Please wait to hear back about your submission before submitting additional work. If resubmitting, please send as a new email thread, rather than a reply to your previous submission.
Please send all submissions through our submission manager. Note that we do not accept submissions via post. Submissions send via post will be destroyed unread.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged; please let us know immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
Always Crashing requests first North American serial rights and exclusive serial rights for three months from date of publication. We do not consider previously published material for publication.
We do not (and will not) charge for submissions.
Thank you to Ross White and Bull City Press for hosting our submissions platform.