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Dustin LaValley
Temper, Red as Her Lips
Cameron Pierce
How to Live Forever
Paul Toth
Flexible-Dose Study
V. Ulea
Just a Story
BP Whalen
Chekov's Nightmare

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Dustin LaValley
Party Girl

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Rob Parker
Goatse, Agape!

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Apeshit
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Shark Hunting in Paradise

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Brad Kendall


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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 May & November. The deadline for Issue #33 is April 1, 2010. Manuscripts are read all year long. Allow 1-2 months 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.)

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.

SOME TIPS FOR GETTING PUBLISHED IN TDP: [1] Include a professional cover email & biography with each submission. [2] Foreground active over passive verbs. [3] Whenever possible, avoid adverbs ending in -ly in favor of active verbs. [4] Don't explicitly moralize but rather critique via representation and/or context, i.e., let the 3 Ds (Description, Detail and Dialogue) subtly assert whatever message you may be trying to convey. [5] Capture our attention with YOUR FIRST SENTENCE, which should be dynamic (in terms of prose) & unique (in terms of theme). [6] Don't write prose that is too colloquial; we hardly ever publish it. [7] Don't be weird simply for the sake fo being weird. [8] Be serious about your writing—but don't take your writing too seriously. (NOTE: These tips are subjective. We do not mean to suggest that they are rules for all good prose. Far from it. They simply reflect our personal tastes.)




General Guidelines

Send all queries & submissions as .doc, .docx or .gif email attachments to this address:

stanleyashenbach@yahoo.com

Do not paste submissions onto emails. Do not send submissions as .rtf or .wps files. 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. No unsolicited novel excerpts. Writing that has formerly appeared in self-published formats 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 speculative literature & film in some capacity, or they should themselves capture a speculative 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.