Hybrid Lit List: Journals for unconventional writing
For those of you who don’t write in conventional ways it can be daunting seeking literary journals for writing that doesn’t fit neatly into traditional genres. As part of a panel on publishing across genres and form for the CT Lit Talk, I compiled my Hybrid Lit List into a takeaway to kick off your publishing journey. I post it here as an offering with warm wishes for your creative growth.
These literary magazines are especially interested in experimental writing that touches upon some of the following practices: hybrid, visual poetry, poetry objects, sound art, video, design, cinepoetry, text+image, graphic narrative, comics, cross-genre, audio, collage, fragments, ephemera, maps, hypertext, interactive, video games, dance, multimedia writing.
Disclaimer: As with anything online, please make sure to do your research on the journal before submitting. Not all publications listed here have been personally vetted.
Journals
*=prize (so go on and get that cash!)
1001 Journal » image+text, comics
3AM Magazine — Poem Brut series » visual poetry, sound
The Adroit Journal » hybrid
Afternoon Visitor » visual poetry, hybrid
A Glimpse) Of) » sound, hybrid
A Velvet Giant » hybrid, cross-genre, experimental
Always Crashing » collage, audio, hybrid
Angime » hybrid
apo-press » performance, hybrid, ritual
Arcturus » hybrid
Autofocus » hybrid
bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects » hybrid, experimental
*Bat City Review — Editors’ Prize Contest » hybrid, visual poetry
beestung » hybrid, experimental
Bennington Review » hybrid, cross-genre
Big Other » hybrid, cross-genre
Birdfeast » hybrid
Black Sun Lit — digital vestiges » hybrid, fragments, ephemera
Bomb Cyclone » multimedia, audio, sound
Booth » comics
*Breakwater Review — The Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest » experimental, hybrid
Cartridge Lit » video game-inspired lit
Clade Song » audio, video
Coast|noCoast » hybrid
The Concrete Desert Review » audio
Container Magazine » poetry objects
The Continental Review » video poetry
Contra Viento » hybrid
Cream City Review » hybrid
ctrl+v » visual poetry, collage, digital, sound, video, and more
Dead Alive Magazine » cross-genre, experimental, multimedia
Death Rattle/Oroboro Lit Journal » comics
DIAGRAM » new media
Doubleback Review » hybrid
Entropy Magazine » digital, interactive, hybrid, comics
Fairy Tale Review » graphic novels, comics
Fecund » hybrid, digital media
Foglifter » hybrid work by queer and trans writers
Fonograf Editions » cross-genre, audio
Fourteen Hills » hybrid
Ghost Proposal » cross-genre, post-genre
Gigantic Sequins » comics
Glint » hybrid, multimedia, visual poetry
Golden Walkman » audio
The Gravity of the Thing » multimedia, cross-genre, hybrid, experimental
Great River Review » visual poetry
Half Mystic » hybrid
Harpy Hybrid Review » hybrid, video, collaborations, comics
Heavy Feather Review » comics, hybrid
Honey Literary » hybrid, comics
Hothouse Literary Journal » hybrid, visual poetry
The Hunger » hybrid
The Ilanot Review — Ephemera(l) » hybrid
Indianapolis Review » visual poetry
It’s Real Magazine » hybrid
Kissing Dynamite » visual poetry
Kithe » graphic narrative, hybrid
Kweli Journal » multimedia
Lammergeier » hybrid
Masque & Spectacle » hybrid, video, sound art
The Massachusetts Review » hybrid
Meshes Journal » poetry+dance, moving image, performance
Metatron – #MicroMeta » video poetry
Mizna » hybrid, comics
Moon City Review » graphic narrative
MoonPark Review » hybrid
New Delta Review » digital media, hybrid
New Session » hybrid
Night Music Journal » hybrid
No Contact » hybrid
The Operating System » hybrid
Oxbow Magazine » hybrid
Oyez Review » hybrid
Passages North » hybrid
*Permafrost Magazine — New Alchemy Contest » hybrid
Petrichor Magazine » visual poetry, cinepoetry
Pine Hills Review » hybrid
Pollux Journal » hybrid, multilingual
Poem Atlas » visual poetry, poetry objects
Poetry Online » visual poetry, cinepoetry
Posit » video, animation
Puerto del Sol – Black Voices Series » multimedia
Queer Southeast Asia » hybrid
Quarterly West » hybrid, new media
Reality Beach » video
*Redivider — Blurred Genre Contest » hybrid, graphic narrative, visual poetry
Rivulet » collage, maps, hybrid, experimental, sound, film
SAND Literature and Art » hybrid
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly » hybrid
Sleepingfish » hybrid, video, multimedia
Slouching Beast Journal » hybrid
Solstice » graphic narrative
SPORAZINE » experimental, visual poetry by trans writers
Stay Journal » hybrid
*Stillhouse Press — Experimental Writing Contest » hybrid, experimental
Streetcake Magazine » visual poetry, experimental
Surfaces » collage
swifts & slows » text/visual collaborations
Tab Journal » text+image, hybrid, design
The Talking Book » audio, comics
Territory — Cursed » hybrid, maps
Tether's End » visual poetry, poetry objects
The Texas Review » comics, cross-genre
Theta Wave » comics, hybrid, sound, multimedia
Thin Air Magazine » hybrid
Threadcount Magazine » hybrid
TIMBER » hybrid, visual poetry
TriQuarterly » video essays, cinepoetry
Variety Pack » hybrid
Voicemail Poems » audio poetry
Western Humanities Review » hybrid
Whiskey Tit » hybrid
The Woven Tale Press » video, sound
Zenith Literary Magazine » hybrid