Outlook Springs

05/05/2023

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05/05/2023

"They met at a Star Wars convention in Youngstown, Ohio. He’d come as Bib Fortuna, the Twi’lek majordomo of the space gangster Jabba the Hutt. She was Maz Kanata, the proprietor of an interstellar tavern on the planet Takodana. When they saw one another across the carpeted ballroom of a busy Ramada Inn, they were drawn together as though he was the Millennium Falcon and she was the tractor beam of the original Death Star."

Read this Star Wars Cosplay Love Story live on the site today.
http://outlooksprings.com/stories/id-just-as-soon-kiss-a-wookie/

A story by Casey McConahay from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.

25/01/2023

OH WOW OH JOY It's our Best Small Fictions nominations! Give a mighty congratulations to Satoshi Iwai, Daniel Galef, Claire Hopple, Gary Glass, and Samuel Zagula!

17/12/2022

Get your loved ones the gift that keeps on reminding you to stare into the abyss until the abyss averts its gaze in embarrassment. http://outlooksprings.com/issues/

18/11/2022

Wrote a mad-lib inspired story for The Rumpus' Letter in the Mail Program about a girl and a black rainbow, which asks the reader to fill out and finish the story via the U.S. mail.

It's perfect for people like me who are always disappointed with how stories seem to end. This way, the reader gets to end it themselves however they want and then send it in.

https://therumpus.net/2022/11/17/december-spotlight-letters-in-the-mail/

16/11/2022

Behold, our 2023 Pushcart Prize nominees!

The Fight for Normalcy | Billy Thrasher
Flying Chef | Satoshi Iwai
Gulping | Robin Gow
Do Not Feed the Animals [I] | Shawn Delgado
Hansel and Gretel's Teeth | Lincoln Michel
The Classification of Living Things | Michelle Ross

03/10/2022

Issue 1 contributor Joe Meno has a story up on Selected Shorts!

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works that contemplate a way out—of our lives, and even of this world. In Joe Meno’s “Books You Read,” performed by Joan Allen, a young boy helps his...

01/10/2022

Here's our Best of the Net nominations!

POETRY
Dylan Ecker “100% Frick”
Gia Grillo “Do you like me...”chisaraokwu. “To all the gods that came after us” koss “If William Burroughs were your secretary”
Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto “The Words at My Ear” chris pollard “potato”

FICTION
K. Joffré “The White Walkers”
Nina Lukina “Cold Front”

NONFICTION
Cali Kopczick “Other Lives: A Party Trick” Jessica Evans “Three Ways to Eat a Heart”

11/08/2022

A love story from a galaxy far, far away. "I'd Just As Soon Kiss a Wookie" from Casey McConahay in Issue8!

http://outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-8/

10/08/2022

So much good writing in Issue 8, including this poem by Shawn Delgado.

http://outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-8/

09/08/2022

We plugged the description of sirens from Marisa Crane's story "Siren Island" into an AI art generator. Read the rest of their story in the new issue of Outlook Springs!

outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-8/

07/08/2022

Here it is, alive and in the flesh!

Support independent publishers and writers and interdimensional railway.

Order yours today: http://outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-8/

31/07/2022

There was an error with the ordering site, but it's been fixed now. If you recently tried to order Issue 8 and could not, you can now!

http://outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-8/

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29/07/2022

TOOT TOOT! ALL ABOARD! Mt. Outlook Interdimensional Railway is leaving the station! (That means the new issue us here! Get it today! (Tomorrow is fine also. Old Oaty is a patient train and doesn't abide the rules of time or space.)

To ride the Mt. Outlook Railway is to be transported into an unforgettable, unrememberable era of superpositional luxury, which is why it has continued to enchant passengers from all over the worlds: from Sandpoint, Idaho all the way to the Devil’s Singularity.

Features fictional, poetic, and nonfictional wordworks by Michelle Ross, Lincoln Michel, Casey McConahay, Greta Hayer, Laura McGehee, Marisa Crane, Matthew Chamberlin, Gary Glass, Samuel Zagula, Mary Lynn Reed, Tom Roth, Daniel Galef, Soramimi Hanarejima, Michael P. Moran, Claire Hopple, John Riebow, Rebecca Higgins, Billy Thrasher, Franklin K.R. Cline, Shawn Delgado, Bernadette Geyer, Zakiyyah Dzukogi, Satoshi Iwai, Kyle E Miller, Rae Rozman, Robin Gow, Constance Bacchus, and Xavier Reyna.

http://outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-8/

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06/07/2022

HELLO WRITERS!

We are open for submissions! Send us you fiction, poetry, and non-fiction tinged with the strange.

https://outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit

Hello from Outlook Springs!When we are open for submissions, if we hit our Submittable limit, submissions will close until the first of the next month.Send us your weird, wobbly wordwork: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See genres for specific submission guidelines, but here's a quick rundown:- Ple...

22/06/2022

Submissions for Issue 9 are now open! Send us your weird, wobbly wordwork: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

https://outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit

22/06/2022

Are you caught up with previous issues of Outlook Springs? NO? (Don't worry, all secrets are safe on the internet.)

Right now, you can get 20% off with the code BOOKFANS through June 23rd.

http://outlooksprings.com/issues/

Outlook Springs is a literary journal from another dimension. It is devoted to fiction, poetry, and non-fiction tinged with the strange.

08/02/2021

Look for some familiar faces tonight during the Super Bowl: We bought 19 minutes of ad time to talk about the em dash.

30/01/2021

question for any lawyers who might be following us:

If I solicit a blurb from Stephen King for my book and he does not respond, can I just put

“ “ ~Stephen King

on the cover?

09/01/2021

It lives. Issue 7. Snag this scintillating stack of wordwork today.

As always, it comes with our 100% Guarantee. If you receive your copy and aren't completely guaranteed, we'll cover the guarantee. We guarantee it. http://outlooksprings.com/issues/issue-7/

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02/01/2021

Issue 7 is FINALLY done. IPD (Important Purchase Details) coming next week. Excited for you to see this one. As always, it's made with 100% real matter.

Big thanks to our friends at PotatoSaladSicle for their generous sponsorship of this issue.

See you this winter at Camp Summer.

20/10/2020

The Citron Review

Today's inventive CNF is a time machine. Caution: you are likely to enjoy the "Car Sickness."
https://citronreview.com/2020/09/23/car-sickness/
Travis Dahlke is a writer from Connecticut with work forthcoming or appearing in Joyland, Outlook Springs, SAND Journal, Barren Magazine, and The Longleaf Review, among other literary journals and collections.

05/10/2020

Outlook Springs Issue 7 Pre-Order: Camp Summer & Limited Patch from Outlook Springs

Issue 7 is in the works! Consider pre-ordering this delightful wordstack and earn one of our limited ETERNAL CAMPER merit badges (first 27 pre-orders!):

Holy mackerel you can pre-order Outlook Springs Issue 7 and get a super limited edition Eternal Camper Patch! 6 x 9 book including amazing wordwork by some amazing wordworkers. 3 x 3 embroidered patch is limited to 27. Ships in N

21/05/2020

An Astronaut’s Alphabet

"Universe: Not as big as people think. You, me, the Corolla, the gas station. That very bad beautiful song. Summer. This is a universe, complete in itself. Learn from me, the universe is not out there." ~ Fiction by Jennifer Evans

A story by Jennifer Evans from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.

30/03/2020

The Citron Review

Leah Mueller's "escapee" by a resilient wisp of a poem. Discover its quiet power in our Spring Issue.
https://citronreview.com/2020/03/19/escapee/

Leah Mueller is an indie writer and spoken word performer. Among her books: Misguided Behavior, Tales of Poor Life Choices (Czykmate Press), Death and Heartbreak (Weasel Press), and Cocktails at Denny’s (Alien Buddha Press) were released in 2019. Leah’s work also appears in Blunderbuss, The Spectacle, Bad Pony, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, and other publications.

15/03/2020

Your Father, Frederick

Over the next few months, we'll be releasing pieces from Issue #6. Check out this story from Audra Kerr Brown.

"'Don’t ever let Father see you cry,' she’d warn. 'Crying feeds his hunger.'"

A story by Audra Kerr Brown from Outlook Springs, a literary journal from another dimension.

04/10/2019

Issue 6

Have you picked up the latest issue of Outlook Springs? Get it in time for Halloween. Buy a couple hundred (thousand?) and hand 'em out to all the trick-or-treaters.

Order here:

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02/10/2019

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