Small World City
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From the Editor
Small World City is a Dhaka, Bangladesh-based online literary magazine looking for speculative stories—in the very different forms they take. We are looking for the strange, the irreverent, the niche… the stories that eschew reality. Ghosts, freaks, punks, misfits, gangsters, martians, manhunters, detectives, astronauts, and argonauts. We publish fiction, nonfiction, hybrid text, art, poetry, and philosophy. Issues are published 4 times a year—August 1st, November 1st, Feb 1st, and May 1st. “Through providing a platform for both emerging and established voices, SWC aims to foster change in how we consume literature. Strongly encouraged are deviations, and where possible, depravations, of the norm,” said editor Mehrul Bari to The Daily Star. We believe that Dhaka’s literary community deserves better recognition and representation, both domestically and globally. Now, against the backdrop of a noticeable rise in alternative subcultures and genres emerging in Dhaka’s arts scene, SWC seeks to showcase captivating stories that defy reality and challenge conventional narratives.
Submissions
FICTION: We are looking for speculative fiction—this is a broad, almost unlimited category which entails anything that pushes back against realist fiction. How much you want to push is wholly up to you. We welcome entirely imagined realms, as well as worlds precisely like our own, barring one small change. Give us the unnatural, the preternatural, the antinatural, however way it comes. NON-FICTION: We welcome reflective, philosophical, or confessional non-fiction that sheds light on corners of life unfamiliar to us: too strange to be true, too pathetic to have happened, too perfect… We are also looking for stories + essays revolving around speculative works. This includes film, TV, literature, music, comics, video games, theater, etc. We want something with a hypothesis; something to be argued. POETRY: We are looking for literary and speculative poetry. As above, this is a broad, almost unlimited category entailing anything that challenges conventional poetry. This could mean an experimental, structure-challenging poem, or it could mean a formal-verse poem centered around ghosts and freaks and incantations. Give us poems of darkness and the strange. How you interpret it, or go about bringing it to us, is wholly up to you.
Information
Editors Name Mehrul Bari
Print publication? No
Circulation 5,000+
Do you take online submissions? Yes
Submission Guidelines URL https://smallworldcity.com/submit
Approx. Response Time? 2 months
How often do you publish? Quarterly
Year Founded? 2023
Do you pay? No
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