Defunct Mag

11/01/2023

In addition to launching Issue 11, our Third Annual May Day Chapbook dropped today too! It's a beauty. And a beast.

Purchase here: https://defunctmagazine.submittable.com/submit/248120/purchase-third-annual-may-day-chapbook-winnerno-actual-sin-by-c-e-hoffman

11/01/2023

Defunct 11 is here! Defunct 11 is here! Happy 1/11!!!

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09/12/2022

16/11/2022

We're hosting another reading this Friday, celebrating the books of two of our current MFA students. And an open mic! Join us! Friday 11/18 from 5-7 at Freddy's Bar in Brooklyn.

15/11/2022

We're open for submissions for Issue 12! (And we'll be bringing you Issue 11 soon.)

Defunct is a celebration of what is over, & what isn’t yet. We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost.Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re funky. We can be fancy when we want to. Our contributors bring back th...

11/11/2022

We were so saddened to hear of the passing of Kevin McIlvoy, a dear friend of the Defunct family. Here's a poem of his, from our re-launch issue (click through to see graffiti that our Editor-in-Chief's kid did for the piece--she really loved Mc, as did/does our EiC):

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02/11/2022

Hey Brooklyn! Come hear the Defunct crew read, and read with us if you want!

28/10/2022

Our latest review of an essentially extinct animal, and those that are still here, by Editor Noelle Thomas:

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22/09/2022

Editor Micah Dela Cueva wrestles with whether or not re-purposed war vehicles should become defunct:

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25/08/2022

Managing Editor Will McDonald's review of defunct things is now live on our site!

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09/08/2022

Defunct is excited to announce that the winner of the 2022 May Day Chapbook Contest is poet C.E. Hoffman! Hoffman’s honest and wholly original entry, No Actual Sin, surprised and captivated the selection committee. Their poems were courageous, leaving no subject taboo, and we are excited to work with Hoffman in publishing this chapbook through May Dayour Ppress.

Official list of finalists are below:

Winner: No Actual Sin, by C.E. Hoffman

Runner-up: Igneous, by Durell Carter

Honorable Mentions: Secret Hallelujah Amen, by Marcia LeBeau and tender stars, by Alison Lubar

We’d like to thank everyone who submitted to the contest this year. Defunct magazine will be publishing Issue 11 later this Fall. Thank you for your continued support!

06/07/2022

We’re open for submissions for the rest of the summer! Send us words.

Defunct is a celebration of what is over, & what isn’t yet. We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost.Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re funky. We can be fancy when we want to. Our contributors bring back th...

27/06/2022

Our latest review of a defunct thing by our Managing Editor, Lacey Cohen!

https://defunct.site/reviews/lacey_cohen/band/28

22/06/2022

Last day to submit to our chapbook contest! We opened on May Day, and we’re closing on the solstice. We look forward to reading your words.

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19/06/2022

Only two days left to submit to Defunct’s May Day Chapbook Contes!

Our third annual chapbook competition opens on May Day, May 1st. May Day Studios will make 100 letterpress copies of the winning manuscript, fifty of which will go to the author.Previous winners include PRIDE by Julie Marie Wade and Let the tides take my body by Zach Semel. Both are hybrid, q***r na...

04/06/2022

Defunct started as flash essay reviews of defunct things, and we've returned to that tradition by publishing reviews by the student Editors who run the magazine. Here's the first; we'll be publishing one a week throughout the summer:

https://defunct.site/reviews/zoey_adam/a_browser-based_massively_online_multiplayer_game_in_its_most_simple_form/26

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23/05/2022

Defunct 10 just launched, the latest issue of our online magazine. And we're currently reading for our chapbook contest, the explicitly political print arm of Defunct. Guidelines here:

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21/05/2022

Issue Ten is live!

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01/05/2022

Happy May Day! The third annual May Day Chapbook contest is open for submissions. Send us your poems, essays, fiction, or hybrid writing about workers' rights, pagan holidays, or anything else! Winner gets 50 letterpress hand-bound chapbooks made by the fabulous May Day Studios. We'll be open until Midsommar's Eve/the summer solstice/June 21st.

https://defunct.site/submit

30/04/2022

Our Editor Zoey reading at our open mic!

30/04/2022

Our open mic!

29/04/2022

Contributor Jared Harél reading in Brooklyn!!! He’s from Queens, but we’re buddies and he’s brilliant.

29/04/2022

Editor Lacey reading in Brooklyn!!!

29/04/2022

Our Editor Eli reading from her thesis tonight in Brooklyn!!!

29/04/2022

Tonight at Freddy's Bar and Backroom! Be there or be square!

15/04/2022

ATTENTION ALL FOLLOWERS! 📣 SUBS ARE CLOSING TODAY @ 3 PM!!! ❗❗❗

EVERYTHING (and everyone) MUST GO (to our site at https://defunct.site and/or https://defunctmagazine.submittable.com/submit to see submission guidelines and... submit!)

14/04/2022

Submissions close tomorrow, 4/15, at 3:00 p.m. EST. Send us your words!

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12/04/2022

Our raffle winner from AWP rocking her Defunct gear! Thanks, Emma.

07/04/2022

On April 29th at Freddy's Bar and Backroom Defunct Magazine will be hosting our spring reading series featuring Jared Harel with student readers Elizabeth Jacobs and Lacey Cohen

There will be an open mic following scheduled readers.

Come grab a drink, listen to some amazing authors, and chat with us! 🍻See you there!

29/03/2022

Our Submittable is open! If you emailed us a submission it is being read, but now we're easier than ever to submit to! We can't wait to read your weirdness.

Defunct is a celebration of what is over, & what isn’t yet. We’re mourning. We’re functioning. Let’s show the world what we want & need through what we’ve lost.Punk’s not dead, punk’s not dead. We’re punk. We’re funky. We can be fancy when we want to. Our contributors bring back th...