After three print issues and several years of online stories, we are closing our Oblong-shaped doors. We won’t be publishing any new work, but the archives will remain online.
The debut issue features fiction from the (former) wild horse-tamer, zinc-smelter worker, flag-pole painter, post office worker and cave-dweller Catfish McDaris, a veteran of the small press world, whose biggest seller was Prying, a chapbook with Jack Micheline & one Charles Bukowski.
40+ pages of short, short fiction from both knowns and unknowns for £2.95.
Click here to pre-order a copy of the debut issue from our online shop.
Oblong I will be released on 1st September 2012 – if you buy one now we will put your name straight down on our oblong-shaped list and will send one in the post as soon as it is released.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the first issue of Oblong is now full so we are temporarily closed to submissions.
The debut issue is out in 12 short weeks, so do check back then to read the first piece and to find out how to buy a nice printed copy.
If you’re interested in contributing to the second issue we should be reopening submissions in late August/early September. We’ll let you know!
Also, for those interested, a quick google search tells me that the following celebrities all have Oblong-shaped faces:
Rihanna
Jessica Alba
Beyonce
Tyra Banks
We are pleased to announce that Oblong is now listed on the excellent writers’ resource, Duotrope: http://duotrope.com/market_7578.aspx
If you enter a piece for publication, please report the outcome of your submission and our response times to Duotrope.
Also, inane thought for the day #1: ‘Oblong’ is an anagram of ‘blog on’.
Oblong is a new literary magazine based in Brixton, London.
We are now accepting submissions for the first issue, to be released in August 2012.
The print edition will be 8″ x 5″ and will feature a selection of short fiction by writers from the UK and abroad. From August, one piece will be featured online every week.
We hope to hear from you soon!
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