Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine is looking for art, essays, stories, and poems that capture the essence and immediacy of the beast. Render on the page what is both alien and familiar about an animal, animals, or being “animal.” Our readers want what is safe, dangerous, and wondrous. They want to discover the animal caught within the prose and see it set free beyond the imagination. No “fluf
fy” work, please. Nonfiction: needs book excerpts, personal essays, experimental, memoir, humor. Does not want anything overtly religious, pornographic, or sentimental. Length: 5,000 words. Fiction: needs adventure, confession, experimental, ethnic, fantasy, horror, humor, mainstream, science fiction, suspense. Poetry: needs avant-garde, free verse, traditional. Send up to five poems in one document. Do not send poems in separate documents. Total not to exceed five pages. Art: Please send work that is at least 300 dpi and a .jpg. Animal will consider simultaneous submissions, but asks that you notify us immediately if you are accepted elsewhere. We do not reprint work published elsewhere, in any form. Please send submissions pasted into the body of an e-mail, as well as attached to the e-mail as a MS Word-compatible document, to animalliterarymagazine @ Gmail.com. Put the title and genre of work in your subject line. Please send questions for the literary magazine at the same address to Elisabeth Lanser-Rose, fiction editor; Danita Berg, non-fiction editor; and/or Stephen Mills, poetry editor.
