SORTES
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From the Editor
SORTES is a spinning collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations to help while away the wintery June nights. It’s an oddball grabbag wunderkammer mixtape offering distraction and refreshment. We have neither theme nor scene. Each issue is its own creature. We publish both the sufficiently strange and insufficiently boring: swart stories, hoity poetry, magical surrealism, beatnik travelogues, hard modern haiku, pulp, fantasia, antibiography, crooning balladeering, experimental sentimentalism, and grainy sideways photography. We also host online readings, old time radio performances, and other beloved gimmicks as they occur to us. SORTES is published quarterly. Each issue includes ten contributors of literary, visual, or performance art. We maintain a very small number of creators and works per issue so that artists and readers can have a chance to get to know each other. SORTES was born and ill-bred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but we invite writers and artists everywhere to live the SORTES dream.
Submission
SORTES considers all unsolicited submissions of poetry, prose, illustration, music, video, and anything else you think may fit our format. Or may not fit our format: feel free to poke us with submissions of dance, sculpture, puzzles, and other un-literary but inescapable indeedy modalities. SORTES, you’ll notice, is primarily a black-and-white publication, and we like to typecast ourselves by leaning into monochrome illustrations, videos, and photography, but we’ll happily consider your polychrome submissions. Submissions are ongoing throughout the year. We consider artists with both extensive and limited publishing experience. We accept simultaneous submissions but please inform us if your work has been accepted elsewhere. And while there’s no restriction on the number of pieces you can submit, please have a heart. There’s no need for an extensive cover letter or publication history but please tell us who you are, what kind of writing or art you do, and a bit about what you’re sending us. There are no formatting requirements for text submissions. There is no fee to submit. Please send submissions as email attachments whenever possible; multimedia submissions may be sent as links. See their submission guidelines before submitting your work: https://sortes.co/#submissioncontact
Upcoming
June 2023: Radio SORTES old time radio performance June 2023: SORTES 14 publication July 2023: SORTES 14 reading All events are free, online, and open to all. More info at https://sortes.co/#events
Information
Editors Name Jeremy Tenenbaum; Gabby Fernandez; Alec Calder Johnsson; Aria Braswell; Emily Zido
Print publication? No
Circulation 3,000+ readers annually
Do you take online submissions? Yes
Submission Guidelines URL https://sortes.co/#submissioncontact
Approx. Response Time? 1 month
How often do you publish? 4 times annually
Year Founded? 2020
Do you pay? No
Twitter N/A
Mailing Address:
Jeremy Tenenbaum SORTES 735 North 26th Street, Apt 1R Philadelphia, PA 19130
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sortesmagazine