Based in Los Angeles, Underground Voices is an online and print literary magazine formed in 2004. They provide edgy, raw, dark fiction, flash fiction, and poetry. In this year, Underground Voices expands into a small press with its first book Chewing the Fat. They’ve got some award and nomination too, e.g. Pushcart Prize XXXI Best of the Small Presses (2007), Storysouth Million Writer’s Award (2006 and 2005).
Although no payment yet for poetry and prose, Underground Voices are looking for poetry, fiction, and flash fiction and non-fiction. Fiction should run up to 4,000 words in maximum. Interesting?
Just send your email submissions in the body of the email or as an attached Word document to uveditor@undergroundvoices.com (attention: C. Powell, the editor). Don’t forget to include your bio.
Underground Voices only accept unpublished work and hold first and one-time rights only. Once they have published your work, you are free to submit it elsewhere.
Underground Voices allow simultaneous submissions. But if your work has been accepted elsewhere, please notify them so that Underground Voices may withdraw it from consideration.
Work that has appeared in print magazines will be considered as long as it doesn’t appear on the print magazine’s website. Underground Voices don’t accept work that has already been published online.
Wait, There’s Print Edition too!
Underground Voices’ print editions will be annual (issued in December). Fiction should be no longer than 7,000 words and previously published works will not be considered. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. If you decide to republish your piece elsewhere, it is recommended to credit Underground Voices as a place of previous publication.
The print edition will fuse new works with the best of the monthly online publication. The deadline is September 15th. Every year. [image by George Grie as seen on UndergroundVoices.com]