Guidelines- Mag


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.)


PLEASE read ALL the guidelines. 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!) 


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. 


Random inspo: 


Assata Shakur

Kathy Acker

Elizabeth Smart

Eileen Myles

d'bi Young

Zadie Smith

Helen Oyeyemi 

Judith Katz

Sylvia Plath (her memoir, not her poetry) 

Marilyn Monroe (YES, her poetry!)

Elise Cowen

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

Diane di Prima

Sherman Alexie

Maggie Nelson

Anne Carson

etc.... 


Random prompts/vibes: 


saying "no" 

bruised knees 

stray cats 

cracked rose quartz 

your first (or last) tattoo

old Converses 

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. 


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: Minimalist, Urban, Experimental, Hybrid. 

(NO genre fiction!)

Excerpts welcome. Just let us know what it's from.


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 interviews, anti-academic essays, articles, ramblings, 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, healing, literature (but not with a capital L.) Swearing fucking welcome!

Excerpts welcome, too. Just let us know what it's from. Flash only. (Unless solicited by the EIC.) 



AUDACIOUS ART: 

We want your art!!! We're not picky. If it explores punk culture/music, mindfulness, fierce femininity, or anything wonderful and weird, we want to see it! 

Open to mainstream art, too!!!

(NO AI. FFS.)


Get a gander of Laura Brant's Come Get Some! and Seriously? by Kay Hogan for reference. 



REBEL REVIEWS:

Punk Monk Magazine is welcoming review requests! 

We review traditionally published novels, novellas, collections, chapbooks, and microchaps in-house. We charge 30 CAD per review.  

All reviews written by EIC C.E. Hoffman.

Find out how to submit review requests here. 



Ready to send? SWEET! 


Email to punkmonkmagazine(at)gmail(dot)com 


Email title: SUBMISSION TYPE- Submission Title by Name you want to be published under (eg: PUNK POETRY- Howl by Allen Ginsberg) 

  

Words: 

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/sim subs welcome. (Just tell us where it was previously published, and if someone snags it first, email us to let us know. If you emailed your submission, reply to your original email to withdraw.)

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're chill re: cover letters. No bios, please. Call the editor by name. We don't send out links to published works but we tell you the date your piece will be published. If it's not on the site by midnight, shoot us an email. 



Stay Creative!



All good things, 


C.E. Hoffman




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