Are you off-kilter enough to write for The Raging Face?
We welcome submissions of fiction and non-fiction that are clever, clean and short and could fit into the broad categories of nonsense, humor, absurdity, comedy, ridiculousness, satire, spoofology and baloney. As for form, we publish essays, short stories, sketches, plays, treatments and most other forms, though we're really not that excited about poetry. Reading the writing on the site is the best way to understand our voice and what we're looking for. Just follow the most ridiculous part of your heart--should bring you to our door.
Some annoying ground rules:
- Clever. Your piece should work as a an original story, with at least some structure. We like absurd stuff, but we need it to hold together, even if just a little bit. For some reason, we get some very straight-ahead fiction and essays. We don't publish it, so you'll save yourself time if you don't send that kind of thing.
- Clean. We're prudes; we try to avoid publishing pieces that use unnecessary obscenities or are too blue. Basically, avoid using "bad" language.
- Short. Please keep pieces short--we no longer read anything over 1,000 words, and we prefer them shorter. We've learned that people tend not to read long work online.
- Format. Send us your pieces in Microsoft Word attachments, without italics, bold type or any other special formatting. We won't use it and it makes it difficult, and takes us more time, to convert your piece to our format.
- Simultaneous subs. We've got no problem with simultaneous submissions. We just ask that you let us know if something you sent us is going to be published somewhere else.
- Fakery. You should feel free to send us material under a pseudonym.
- Re-publishing. Also, for some of our favorite writers, we'll put up stuff that's been published elsewhere, with proper attribution, as long as doing so doesn't violate laws or our own ill-thought-out code of ethics.
- One at a time. Please don't send more than one piece at a time. Sometimes people send a few things and ask us which one we like best. We're happier when you make that choice before sending to us.
We can't promise we'll put your stuff up, but we'll give it a good read. We can't tell you how long it will take us to read your piece, but we do try to get back to writers as soon as we can. If you sent us something and haven't heard back in awhile, please feel free to e-mail and check in.
Please contact or submit works to us by email at masterATragingface.com. Thanks a lot for checking us out.
--Your Editors of Your The Raging Face