Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to submit your writing to five journals in the time between today and Monday morning.
(Please post about your challenge successes in the comments, I'd like to start getting a little more interaction with the community here.)
To aid in your attempt, use the following tools.
Eyes Forward "Big List" of journals that publish experimental writing.
Derek Annis' Submission Calendar.
Entropy Magazine's "Where to Submit" post.
The Submission Wizard (my personal lit mag recommendation service—use the service this weekend and I'll throw in a preliminary suggestion of 2 journals within 12 hours of the form submission which won't count toward the service's recommendations)
A little reminder of a solid journal researching strategy: 1) About us. 2) Submission Guidelines. 3) Newest issue in your genre (bail on pieces you don't like). 4) (if you still think your work would fit) Submission Guidelines.
And just for fun, here are 5 journals that are currently reading submissions. They may not all fit your writing, but hopefully at least one of them will.
Freshwater Literary Journal is a solid print journal out of Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut. They favor accessible writing and are definitely worth giving a look.
Juke Joint is a funky lit fix out of the south who are "searching for unconventional Southern (& non-Southern) voices in poetry. Send us your lyrical, your narrative, your found, your erased, your not-quite-sure-it's-a-poem poem(s)"
Otoliths is all about the experiments, baby. Definitely read more than just a couple pieces to get an idea of what they like. They'll give you a little room to play with if they like the word-putty you're sculpting with—or, as they put it, "The intention is for Otoliths to appear quarterly, to contain a variety of what can be loosely described as e-things, that is, anything that can be translated (visually at this stage) to an electronic platform. If it moves, we won't shoot at it."
Brazenhead Review is a unique online journal that publishes an eclectic selection of writing. When browsing their issues remember that to flip through there are arrows at the left or right side of the page which you can click to move along to the next page.
HAPPY JOURNAL HUNTING!
