The Alarmist
There are presently no open calls for submissions.
The Alarmist is a dark, funny, silly and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually. It’s not about trying to prove how clever or well-read you are. We want to buck the modern trend, and tickle and entertain with what we publish.
We’re after work that has to be seen or read to be understood and appreciated. If you can explain your work quite easily to your mates at a pub, then it’s probably not for us.
We want funny
We want dark
We want darkly funny
We want surreal
We want experimental
We want surreally experimental
We want maniacal
We like writing: poems, prose, stories, snippets, plays, letters.
Famous literary folk we like, although by no means an exhaustive list, include Kharms, Beckett, Barthelme, Gogol, Lu Xun, Poe, Thompson, Feneon, Blissett and Dick.
We also like comics, clowns and jokers of many stripes.
Failing all that, if it’s good, or if there’s a certain je ne sais quoi and it doesn’t use droll unnecessary French terms willy-nilly but is the sort of work to unashamedly use the term willy-nilly just because it has willy in it, or simply if we like it, we’ll publish it.
Then there’s the art: this whole thing’s going to look good – very good. We like cartoons, doodles, scribbles, paintings. We like excessive colour, despite what we said about dark.
We’re after work that has to be seen or read to be understood and appreciated. If you can explain your work quite easily to your mates at a pub, then it’s probably not for us.
We want funny
We want dark
We want darkly funny
We want surreal
We want experimental
We want surreally experimental
We want maniacal
We like writing: poems, prose, stories, snippets, plays, letters.
Famous literary folk we like, although by no means an exhaustive list, include Kharms, Beckett, Barthelme, Gogol, Lu Xun, Poe, Thompson, Feneon, Blissett and Dick.
We also like comics, clowns and jokers of many stripes.
Failing all that, if it’s good, or if there’s a certain je ne sais quoi and it doesn’t use droll unnecessary French terms willy-nilly but is the sort of work to unashamedly use the term willy-nilly just because it has willy in it, or simply if we like it, we’ll publish it.
Then there’s the art: this whole thing’s going to look good – very good. We like cartoons, doodles, scribbles, paintings. We like excessive colour, despite what we said about dark.