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Oh, that Magic!

April 25th 2008 in News

Sometimes it’s called magical realism, sometimes literature of the fantastic and there’s even a new label, “literature of the new weird.”  Call it whatever you like, this is lit and poetry with a touch of whimsey, with just a sprinkling of magic dust. Check out The Big Blog of Marvel for bloggers on magical realism.

So where to submit those quirky pieces filling your files?

Here are a few magazines from the not-well-known Shimmer to the hard-to-get-into Virginia Quartely Review that take ficiton and poetry with a fantastical edge–

Shimmer
http://www.shimmerzine.com/submission-guidelines/what-we-want
 
One Story
http://www.one-story.com/
 
A Public Space
http://www.apublicspace.org/submit/
 
Strange Horizons
http://www.strangehorizons.com/
 
Virginai Quarterly Review
http://www.vqronline.org/
 


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