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We're starting a new literary journal as a printed companion to this website. We're hoping to give it the same rambling energy, but with a bit more polish. Submissions for our first issue are now closed; thanks so much to all who have contributed their work so far. The issue is (currently) due out in the New York area and elsewhere in April. If you haven't heard back from us yet, your work remains under consideration for future issues. We're currently accepting submissions for our second issue and, after a good amount of time editing, we've decided to narrow our submissions criteria a bit: for fiction, we're particularly interested in straight-ahead realism that deals with darker issues, though not necessarily in a dark way. We're also currently exploring the idea of doing a military theme for issue 2, so if you have a military background and happen to write about it, please send your stories our way. Submissions need not be dark comedy, nor dark, nor comedy. We're just running on the idea that life is dark comedy. All genres are welcome--poetry, fiction, essays, etc.. Please send submissions to journal@darkcomedyhour.com in any format. We prefer submissions of 5000 words or less. You can also mail us at Dark Comedy Review 361 Broadway, Apt. 2 Brooklyn, NY 11211 If you choose to mail us, please include your email address or an SASE. Contributors will be compensated in copies and a small amount of cash (yet to be determined). Thank you |
We’re hard at work finishing the editing and publishing process for our first issue. If you haven’t heard back from us yet about your submission(s), we’re still reviewing your material and may keep your work under consideration for future issues. Thanks for your patience! Issue one should come to press around the beginning of April.
As you may also see, we’re overhauling our website: it’s a frantic scene over here, poems and stories strewn all over the floor and pasted to the walls, bloodshot code-filled eyes, spilled beverages and tangled computer cables. It’s a bona fide fire hazard. Please stay tuned!