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Anomalous Press ANMLY is an international journal of literature and the arts. Anomalous Press is home to Anomaly, an international journal of literature and the arts.

We provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre.Anomaly is committed to actively seeking out and promoting the work of marginalized and underrepresented artists, including especially people of color, women, q***r, disabled, neurodivergent, and gender nonconforming artists. We recognize that, as Kazim Ali wrote brilliantly to Aimee Nezhukumat

athil: “The notion of an unbiased concept “literary merit” is an inherently and inescapably racist principle. An institution that relies on it is by definition a white supremacist institution.” Anomaly recognizes that aesthetics are not neutral, and that difference tends to be marginalized.Anomaly is committed to encouraging experimentation in the arts.Anomaly believes in the importance of compensating artists for their work, and we are working toward financial sustainability, which will allow us to compensate our contributors and our editorial staff for their work.Anomaly focuses on especially innovative and experimental literature and arts. Anomalous Press is run by an entirely volunteer staff, dedicated to literature and art and the internet (well, more like literature and the art on the internet, but we’re fans of the medium, too). Anomalous Press was founded in 2010 in Boston, MA by Erica Mena, Shannon Walsh, Rachael Trousdale, David Johnston, Sarah Gilmore, and Matt Landry. The original incarnation of was Anomalous, a web journal, completely hand-coded, that published 17 issues between 2010 and 2015.In 2011 Anomalous Press began publishing print chapbooks in hand-made letterpress-printed cover editions of 100. Since then, Anomalous Press has published 23 books (as of 2018) of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literature in translation.In 2014, Anomalous Press founding editor Erica Mena joined Drunken Boat as the Managing Editor, and in 2015 was asked to step into the position of Editor and Executive Director. Erica, along with the entire board and editorial staff, resigned from Drunken Boat in 2016 (to learn more about that, please see this blog post: http://www.vidaweb.org/drunken-boat-is-now-anomaly/). The editorial staff elected to continue working together by starting Anomaly, and we're glad to continue this work together and with you here.

"He serves the pigeon, expanding his great grey beard to please her. His star signs deliver the convoluted news: your de...
16/12/2024

"He serves the pigeon, expanding his great grey beard to please her. His star signs deliver the convoluted news: your dead father sits at the street corner in this moment, open to questions if you can find his face."

—Lake Angela translates Georg Amsel

https://anmly.org/ap39/lake-angela-translates-georg-amsel/

ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres!We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonficti...
15/12/2024

ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> http://anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> http://anmly.org/ap39

"When I rode the school bus to high school, a teenage boy regularly spat at me, his spittle hitting my jacket and slowly...
13/12/2024

"When I rode the school bus to high school, a teenage boy regularly spat at me, his spittle hitting my jacket and slowly gyrating to the floor. Every school day my stomach lurched when I climbed the bus steps..."

—Charmaine Arjoonlal

https://anmly.org/ap39/charmaine-arjoonlal/

"New Yorkers in the unemployment line telling me they saw death, a man jumped from a building, hit the ground in front o...
11/12/2024

"New Yorkers in the unemployment line telling me they saw death, a man jumped from a building, hit the ground in front of them, they dodged the body and bought a bacon egg and cheese.”"

—Glenn Shaheen

https://anmly.org/ap39/glenn-shaheen/

"There were no attempts to exhume what had been laid to rest, no attempts to blow out hot breath on cool embers, and by ...
10/12/2024

"There were no attempts to exhume what had been laid to rest, no attempts to blow out hot breath on cool embers, and by nightfall we all went our separate ways."

—Keegan Lawler

https://anmly.org/ap39/keegan-lawler/

"But fate cheated me. Life asked of me a sacrifice that I didn’t want to give. Death demanded of me a tax I did not want...
09/12/2024

"But fate cheated me. Life asked of me a sacrifice that I didn’t want to give. Death demanded of me a tax I did not want to pay. I was forced to give up a future with my mother."

—Marianna Marlowe

https://anmly.org/ap39/marianna-marlowe/

"You think that ‘cigarette’ is probably the most beautiful word you know. You don’t know why, but when you hear someone ...
06/12/2024

"You think that ‘cigarette’ is probably the most beautiful word you know. You don’t know why, but when you hear someone sing that word in a song, you shiver with delight."

—Rachel Paris Wimer

https://anmly.org/ap39/rachel-paris-wimer/

"In this study, a woman was selected to undergo a novel technique for extracting guilt and shame. If successful, the pro...
05/12/2024

"In this study, a woman was selected to undergo a novel technique for extracting guilt and shame. If successful, the process will be utilized in large-scale processing of humanity."

—Sayuri Ayers

https://anmly.org/ap39/sayuri-ayers/

"Our mom was not like that. Our mom was loud and brash and struggled to keep abreast of everything that life threw at he...
04/12/2024

"Our mom was not like that. Our mom was loud and brash and struggled to keep abreast of everything that life threw at her. And I’m like Mom. That’s why no one likes me."

—Brianna DiMonda

https://anmly.org/ap39/brianna-dimonda/

"Nothing about the building suggests that this is New York City (for he has never been outside the building to verify), ...
03/12/2024

"Nothing about the building suggests that this is New York City (for he has never been outside the building to verify), and there are no windows which reveal any telling landmarks, but he knows in his gut that this is New York City..."

—Dillon Sefic

https://anmly.org/ap39/dillon-sefic/

"These same cousins were privy to crop circles, and Jesus. You couldn’t prove either wrong. And yes, there’d been hoaxes...
02/12/2024

"These same cousins were privy to crop circles, and Jesus. You couldn’t prove either wrong. And yes, there’d been hoaxes, but what do you have to say about the non-hoaxes? How can you explain away that?"

—Elijah Sparkman

https://anmly.org/ap39/elijah-sparkman/

"These were not the first lobsters ever to be in a movie. They’d been on the job for almost fourteen hours, starting wit...
27/11/2024

"These were not the first lobsters ever to be in a movie. They’d been on the job for almost fourteen hours, starting with their triumphant, if hungover, acquisition from a Chinatown market that morning"

—Julia Meinwald

https://anmly.org/ap39/julia-meinwald/

"The dryness was sending signals and requests, not capable of maintaining itself anymore. There could be only one way ou...
26/11/2024

"The dryness was sending signals and requests, not capable of maintaining itself anymore. There could be only one way out of that situation and it was hanging above the burned out land like an overripe fruit..."

—klau stępień

https://anmly.org/ap39/klau-stepien/

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Anomalous Press is home to Anomaly, an international journal of literature and the arts. We provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre. Anomaly is committed to actively seeking out and promoting the work of marginalized and underrepresented artists, including especially people of color, women, q***r, differently abled, neurodivergent, and gender nonconforming artists. We recognize that, as Kazim Ali wrote brilliantly to Aimee Nezhukumatathil: “The notion of an unbiased concept “literary merit” is an inherently and inescapably racist principle. An institution that relies on it is by definition a white supremacist institution.” Anomaly recognizes that aesthetics are not neutral, and that difference tends to be marginalized. Anomaly is committed to encouraging experimentation in the arts. Anomaly believes in the importance of compensating artists for their work, and we are working toward financial sustainability, which will allow us to compensate our contributors and our editorial staff for their work. Anomaly focuses on especially innovative and experimental literature and arts. Anomalous Press is run by an entirely volunteer staff, dedicated to literature and art and the internet (well, more like literature and the art on the internet, but we’re fans of the medium, too). Anomalous Press was founded in 2010 in Boston, MA by Erica Mena, Shannon Walsh, Rachael Trousdale, David Johnston, Sarah Gilmore, and Matt Landry. The original incarnation of was Anomalous, a web journal, completely hand-coded, that published 17 issues between 2010 and 2015. In 2011 Anomalous Press began publishing print chapbooks in hand-made letterpress-printed cover editions of 100. Since then, Anomalous Press has published 23 books (as of 2018) of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literature in translation. In 2014, Anomalous Press founding editor Erica Mena joined Drunken Boat as the Managing Editor, and in 2015 was asked to step into the position of Editor and Executive Director. Erica, along with the entire board and editorial staff, resigned from Drunken Boat in 2016 (to learn more about that, please see this blog post: http://www.vidaweb.org/drunken-boat-is-now-anomaly/). The editorial staff elected to continue working together by starting Anomaly, and we're glad to continue this work together and with you here.