Guidelines- ZINE
PUNK MONK MAGAZINE
GUIDELINES
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"In this zine, we ask that women/girls stand at the front.
Please allow/encourage this to happen.
This is an experiment."
Elevating femme/queer/weird voices since 2012.
We're OPEN for all submissions including REVIEW REQUESTS! (See below or read this for more info.)
Submissions that fail to follow the guidelines will be deleted without reply. Same goes for submissions made outside submission windows. (If you receive no reply within seven months, assume this has occurred.)
Read our interview with Jim Harrington here.
We want writing from the gut/heart.
Paint splatters. Safety pins. Mosh pits.
Healing. Hope. Humanity.
Mistakes. Misgivings. Misfits.
Mere shock value has no place here. We want the mud from which the lotus blooms. Writing with an "untucked shirt." (If you get the reference, this is your scene!)
We welcome emerging, established, and new writers.
OBVIOUSLY, we're anti-AI. (But very pro-human!) No fancy shit, scatology, hate speech, showing off your degree. (We kinda prefer if you don't have one!) No fancy formatting. No five dollar words (or four dollar words!)
#OwnVoices STRONGLY preferred!
We are excited to elevate femme voices, though all (within the realms of moral sanity) are welcome.
We're especially interested in a feminine perspective w/ edge- that which our EIC has dubbed "femmepunk" in reference to their own work. It's rare to see the two combined, and rarer to find spaces curating those fab femmepunk gems.
Inspo (we are editing/updating this all the time):
Assata Shakur
Kathy Acker
Elizabeth Smart (as in By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, but the other Elizabeth Smart's memoir is exceptional and brave work)
Eileen Myles
Kim Hyesoon
d'bi Young
Zadie Smith
Helen Oyeyemi
Judith Katz
Sylvia Plath (her memoir, not her poetry)
Marilyn Monroe (YES, her poetry!)
Allen Ginsberg
the LADY Beats (Elise Cowen, Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson!!!)
Sophie B Watson
Ntozake Shange
Leslie Feinberg
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Saul Williams
Joy Harjo
Joy Young
Tommy Orange
Michelle Tea
Martin Millar
Claudia Dey
Zora Neale Hurston
Sherman Alexie
Maggie Nelson
Anne Carson
etc....
Vibes:
saying "no"
bruised knees
stray cats
cracked rose quartz
old Converses
unwashed hair
chipped black nail polish
your first (or last) tattoo
feeling lonely in a moshpit (or your bedroom, or anywhere)
PUNK POETRY:
1 poem at a time, please. Non-rhyming/free verse preferred. Short poems (1-2 stanzas) strongly preferred.
Genres: General, Contemporary, Experimental, Slam.
Music artists are welcome to submit song lyrics as a poetry submission.
Check out Em Ramser's amazing poem to see what we're looking for. And Allie's wicked slam poetry.
PUNK PROSE:
Flash fiction only. (Up to 1K.) Micro-fiction welcome.
We prefer freakish prosetry, weird musings, raging declarations of independence.
For "actual" "stories", we prioritize feeling over plot, inner dialogue over outer dialogue, what-ifs over reality.
Genres: General, Minimalist, Urban, Experimental, Hybrid.
(NO genre fiction!)
Jenna Best's flash fiction is a great example of what we want. And B. Hudson's piece.
FIERCE FEATURES:
We want your CNF!!! No pitches necessary. Send completed interviews, anti-academic essays, articles, rants, retrospectives.
Interests:
femininity/femmeness/femaleness (esp pieces that challenge stereotypes thereof), feminism, sex work, sexuality (esp LGBTQ and trauma), punk/alt/emo/counter culture, pop culture, nostalgia, mental health/wellness, analog lifestyle, literature (but not with a capital L.) Swearing fucking welcome!
2K and under, please.
AUDACIOUS ART:
We want your art!!! If it explores punk culture/music, social commentary, satire, fierce femininity, or anything wonderful and weird, we want to see it!
Open to mainstream art, too!!!
We love bright, poppy, saturated hues and black n white photography.
(NO AI. FFS.)
Black n white art will be considered for cover art for our (rare) print zines.
Get a gander of Laura Brant's Come Get Some! and Seriously? by Kay Hogan for reference.
REBEL REVIEWS:
Punk Monk Magazine welcomes review requests from authors, publishers, and promo agencies!
We review traditionally published novels, novellas, collections, chapbooks, and microchaps, and charge 30 CAD per review.
All reviews written in-house by EIC C.E. Hoffman.
To submit a review request, please email punkmonkmagazine(at)gmail(dot)com w/ title: Review Request: Book Title by Author Name. (Eg. Review Request: Come and Join the Dance by Joyce Johnson.)
Paste book jacket blurb, author bio, publisher name, and a one-page sample in email. (If no publisher name is provided, I will assume the work is self-published, and we are not reviewing self-published works at this time.)
If interested, I will reply with instructions on where to send payment, after which you can send me your ebook/ARC/review copy.
Read more about review requests here.
Ready to send? SWEET!
Email to punkmonkmagazine(at)gmail(dot)com
Email title: SUBMISSION TYPE- Submission Title by Author Name (eg: PUNK POETRY- Revolutionary Letter #6 by Diane di Prima)
Prose/Poetry/CNF:
Paste in the Body of your email. Your piece will be published exactly as it was pasted.
Art:
Attach as a PNG or JPG file.
You can also submit prose/poetry/CNF/art through our Google Form. Please continue to send review requests by email only.
Reprints welcome. Tell us where it was previously published.
Simultaneous subs welcome. If someone snags your stuff first, let us know.
Excerpts welcome. Let us know what it's from.
No multiple submissions.
We reserve the right to make edits, and serialization rights. You retain all other rights to your work (as it should be.) We rarely make edits, but when we do, we will ask if you approve of some alterations. We will not, however, show you the edited piece to approve.
No bios, please. Call the editor by name. We don't send out links to published works, but tell you the date your piece will be published. If it's not on the site by midnight, shoot us an email.
We are moving back to the DIY/irl realm of promoting this publication. Stay tuned for updates.
All good things,
C.E. Hoffman
