SUBMISSIONS

Our current reading period is 15 May - 15 September. You can follow updates to our reading periods, as well as more information on what we’re looking for and what we’re publishing, by subscribing for free to our email edition.

Always Crashing is looking for submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, video, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and nonfiction (though we prefer not to be told if it’s nonfiction).
 
We are interested in surfaces and form. We are interested in discontinuity and want to watch you break things. We want to read works that seek something via untruth, fantasy, artificiality, the plastic, deep superficiality, and attention to their own construction. We are interested in work that strikes curious poses; in the “experimental,” not as an avant-garde, but as a furthering of a subterranean literary tradition. We are interested, ultimately, in the aesthetic: the beautiful and the sublime, sure, but also the boring, the dumb, the merely interesting, the zany, the disgusting, the cute—particularly when pushed into strange and unfamiliar territories.

We publish new work online every two weeks, and print issues sporadically. You may familiarize yourself with our online edition here, or check out our print issues—including digital versions of our back issues—here.

Submissions may be sent to submissions@alwayscrashing.com. Please include your name and the word “SUBMISSION” in the subject line, and some sort of cover letter or friendly note in the email body so we don't think you're a robot. Please note that we are currently only reading for the online edition. Submissions with audio-visual components are particularly welcome.

Please wait to hear back about your submission before submitting additional work. If resubmitting, please send as a new email thread, rather than a reply to your previous submission.

Please note that we do not accept submissions via post. Submissions send via post will be destroyed unread.

Note that we do not accept submissions sent as links to Google Docs, WeSendIt, or other filesharing platforms. If your submission is too large to send as an email attachment, please query us with a description of the submission beforehand.

To withdraw work or query the status of a submission, please send your query or withdrawal note as a reply to the original thread. This will help make sure we get the message, and will help us keep our increasingly monstrous inbox somewhat more organized.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged; please let us know immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.

Always Crashing requests first North American serial rights and exclusive serial rights for three months from date of publication. We do not consider previously published material for publication.

We do not (and will not) charge for submissions.