Overview

The Dream People is a biannual electric journal of Bizarro texts, an avant-garde genre of writing & artistry distinguished by absurdity, irrealism, the grotesque, narrative experimentation, dark humor, & ultimately a cult sensibility. We are looking for high-quality, stylized fiction that escapes the boundaries of reality & attempts to represent the unrepresentable. In addition to short stories & flash fiction, TDP publishes book reviews, interviews, creative nonfiction, artwork, animation, short films, & literary microcriticism.

TDP is published in April & October. The deadline for Issue #30 is September 1, 2008. Manuscripts are read all year long. Allow 1 month for a reply. TDP retains electronic rights for six months after the initial publication of accepted work. Payment for publication is the price of a martini; authors & artists whose work is accepted will be asked how much a martini costs at a local bar or restaurant of their choice & a check in that amount will be made out to them. (NOTE: Authors are paid exclusively via PayPal.)

(NOTE: The editorial staff of TDP is highly selective. You are encouraged to read the magazine & get a sense of our aesthetic taste; such behavior, however, is not mandatory. Above all, make sure your submissions have teeth, & make sure every sentence counts.)


General Guidelines

Send all queries & submissios as .doc or .gif email attachments to this address:

stanleyashenbach@yahoo.com

Do not paste submissions onto emails. Please include a 100-150 word biography. TDP does not publish poetry.

Fiction & Creative Nonfiction. TDP accepts solicited & unsolicited manuscripts of up to 1,000 words. Manuscripts of 5-500 words are preferred. Translations welcome. No simultaneous submissions or reprints. Submit only 1 work at a time. Novel excerpts or stories in anthologies that have been self-published will not be considered for publication.

Literary Microcriticism. The maximum length for manuscripts is 500 words. While authors are encouraged to practice new & imaginative styles of texual inquiry on a range of topics, microcriticisms should focus on or concern Bizarro-related literature & film in some capacity, or they should themselves capture a Bizarro methodology. MLA documentation preferred.

Artwork & Animation. Submissions of photographs, paintings, sketches, sculptures, comix, & stand alone cartoons are all welcome. We are especially interested in animated texts & short films.

Reviews & Interviews. Reviews of speculative fiction & nonfiction books published within the last two years are considered for publication. Particularly appealing are reviews of alternative & independent press novels, story collections & anthologies. Likewise is TDP keen on interviews with speculative authors, artists & filmmakers. Self-published works and authors will not be considered for reviews or interviews.