Online Lit Mag

Submissions for the online lit mag are always open and ongoing. We are seeking fiction, personal essays, critical essays, poetry, comics, and experimental hybrid works. We are especially interested in writing that is engaged with how we live in late-stage capitalism. We will consider writing that is heartfelt, well thought out, relevant, exhilarating, and/or weird. We will not consider writing that is half-baked, redundant, or that punches down. We are very willing to work with writers to develop pieces if the writer is interested and approaches the submission process with that in mind - let us know.

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Email localsmokepress@gmail.com with any questions or send your submission as a Word doc attachment or comparable (please include genre and title in subject line). We will contact you via email. We are not able to pay online contributors at this time, but should we receive a grant or become profitable in the future, honorariums will be paid to all past contributors. We appreciate you!

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Previous Calls for Submission

​Volcano Zine!!!

Submissions for our print journal are currently open through April 1, 2023. This is a project on the theme of volcanoes. It will be titled Volcano Zine!!! The cover art will be by Brenden Fortescue. We are seeking fiction, poetry, personal essays, science-based writing, history/political theory, and experiments. Comics and diagrams/illustrations are encouraged. Photography is unlikely to be considered, but not necessarily a hard no. There is no limit on word count. Please consider the theme "volcanoes" broadly! 

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Submission is free. Submission does not guarantee publication. Simultaneous submissions are fiiiiiiine. This is a short-run publication, which will be released at the Spokane Zine Fest, May 13, 2023 and sold on our Etsy store. It will not have a wide distribution. Contributors selected for publication will be paid an honorarium.

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Email localsmokepress@gmail.com with any questions or send your submission as a Word doc attachment or comparable by April 1, 2023! Please note whether you prefer us to send you an accept/reject notice only, or are willing to work together on editing/development. Cover letters and bios are not necessary unless you wish to include them. We will contact you via the email address you submit from. We appreciate you!

Work + Leisure

Submissions are now closed for Local Smoke’s very first quarterly lit mag. Publication of this project has been delayed due to global pandemic in early 2020. We expect it to go to press in Summer 2021.

Submission is free. Submission does not guarantee publication. Simultaneous submissions are fiiiiiiine. This is a short-run publication, but we want the good shit! We can work with contributors on editing if necessary.

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The theme is Work + Leisure, how they blur and how they co-exist. We are seeking fiction, personal essays, poetry, and experiments. Comics, illustrations, and history/political theory will also be considered for publication. Word count should be (approximately) between 2 words and 3,000 words. Submissions will be selected based on originality, specificity, diversity of style, clarity or potential for clarity with editing, and (BROAD) relevance to the theme.

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Please consider the definitions of Work + Leisure broadly! not only wages vs. vacations.

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Suggested topics include: first jobs, race in work + leisure, dis/ability in work + leisure, gender/transitioning in work + leisure, unemployment feels, family reunions, class mobility & wages, when work & travel are combined (book tours? conferences? research trips?), anarchist views on work & workers, emotionally transitioning to self-employment, weird relationships with coworkers, what it feels like when art is your job, childhood “vacations” (trip to visit relatives? summer camp/camping?), travel as relationship test, witchy/ healing practitioner work (astro, tarot, intuitive, bodywork, herbalism), hitchhiking & public transportation, how your education does or does not inform your work, origin stories of your philosophical views of work.

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We are working on getting a grant so that contributors can be paid an honorarium, but we don’t know how that will work out or what it will be. Assuming that works out, every contributor will be paid the same amount, not according to word count, length, or content. Contributors will absolutely receive 2 copies of the publication, but we’re really REALLY hoping to offer you more than that!

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Email localsmokepress@gmail.com with any questions or send your submission as a Word doc attachment or comparable by December 1, 2019! We will contact you via the email address you submit from. We appreciate you!