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Nat. Brut’s (pr. nat broot) principal mission is to showcase the work of writers and artists who have been historically devalued or pigeonholed by art and literary institutions. We publish work that has been buried, ignored, and disappeared from public consciousness. Equally, we seek work that comes from artists’ buried, ignored, and disappeared impulses and practices—the risky, the exploratory, and the potentially ugly.
We bring together work that is serious and humorous, formal and experimental, by artists and writers who are trained and untrained, emerging and established. The work that we publish is intentionally representative of different identities, perspectives, and experiences. We believe in the power of presenting all of these voices in proximity.
General Submission Information: Please Read
We are currently closed for general fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Our Issue 18 folio, edited by Cleo Abramian, will be open from August 1–16. We aim to have a turn-around time of two months for folio submissions.
General submission guidelines:
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We DO accept fiction, nonfiction, and poetry via the Oleada submissions platform. Please be familiar with the guidelines below for each category before submitting.
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If you are not able to submit through Oleada, please send us an email at natbrutmag@gmail.com.
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We DO NOT accept or respond to poetry, nonfiction, or fiction submissions that do not follow our guidelines.
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We DO NOT currently accept unsolicited interviews, visual art, video art, video poetry, or animation.
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Please send only work that is previously unpublished (with the exception of comics submissions). We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in the notes section of the form, and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification) if it’s accepted elsewhere.
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Please Note: Nat. Brut no longer releases biannual print issues. We do, however, publish content regularly online. Work accepted for publication online will be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.
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Folio Submission Guidelines
Guest Editor
Cleo Abramian
From Etel Adnan’s The Arab Apocalypse, 1989.
Drawing on Etel Adnan’s book-length poem, The Arab Apocalypse, which she wrote during the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, this folio looks for work that explores modes of poetic documentation in the space of apocalypse.
Adnan writes to us from the inside of what Jalal Toufic calls the surpassing disaster— that which spills past its immediate material annihilation and into “a withdrawal of tradition,” that which must ultimately be resurrected. “I saw it in color,” Adnan says, “Only that way I could express it.”
This folio examines the possibilities of language in this attempt toward resurrection. How do we locate language when language itself fails? And how can poetry bear witness to or document apocalypse by virtue of illogic, of laying down marks on a page? Of looking and looking and looking again at a sun.
Across the landscapes of genocide and the colonial project, we look to gather work that stands in solidarity with the struggles of Palestine and the other lands exploited by imperialism. Through the work collected here, we hope to further engage with our various lived and historic apocalypses as systemic, interpersonal, world-forming and destroying, a lens for our collective sight.
For this folio, we’re interested in works of poetry, hybrid text, translation, visual poems, and pieces born in found ephemera and physical matter.
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Please limit five poems per submission.
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We aim to have a turn-around time of two months for all folio submissions.
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Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.
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Please only send work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to natbrutmag@gmail.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.
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Submissions close August 16, 2024.
Fiction Submission Guidelines
Fiction Editor
Ariel Chu
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We consider stories of any length. Please limit one story per submission.
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We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.
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Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.
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Please only send work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to natbrutmag@gmail.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.
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Submissions close June 15, 2024.
Poetry Submission Guidelines
Poetry Editor
Alana Solin
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Please limit five poems per submission.
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We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.
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Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.
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Please send only work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to natbrutmag@gmail.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.
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Submissions close June 15, 2024.
Nonfiction Submission Guidelines
Nonfiction Editor
Meghan Lamb
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Nat. Brut publishes long-form essays, literary journalism, and cultural criticism. We are looking for essays that—wherever they involve the personal and the autobiographical—also respond to a specific cultural object or historical moment. The work we want to publish takes formal risks and attempts to answer the questions it puts forth, sharing researched and personal knowledge while remaining accessible to a broad, non-specialist audience.
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We consider pieces up to 5,000 words in length, and we also consider pitches, both for single and serial pieces.
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Please limit one essay per submission.
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We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.
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Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.
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Please send only work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to natbrutmag@gmail.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.
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Submissions close June 15, 2024.