Broadside journal
The old-school grassroots literary delight for writers who actually read journals.
all the fancy bullshit
Broadside Journal isn’t about vanity. This isn’t about adding another mastrabitory notch in your bio by submitting to yet another journal you don’t subscribe to.
(Finally, someone said it.)
Broadside Journal Isn't to Display on Your Bookshelf
Yes, we have a professional editor, but we aren’t focused on book sales. We print broadside (A4) for writers to read (unpretentiously) the glorious work of other writers.
No Charts and Graphs or Sexy Pictures
We print text here. Stories and poems – rants maybe – things people write. We don’t apologize for not trying to be everything to everyone. This is a damn good literary journal.
Our Editors Treat Everyone Equally
We don’t select your work for publication because of your impressive biography. Frankly, we don’t care what you did yesterday. What did you send us today?
We Only Accept Submissions By Mail
We don’t accept online submissions. We don’t want submissions from writers that don’t care. If you are only interested in free, online “cut and paste” submissions, this journal isn’t for you. Here, everyone has skin in the game. If you want to be part of this, you have to mail it in.
Make a CASH Donation
When you mail in your submission, send some cash (actual green stuff). Whatever you want to give. Anything will do. There’s probably something laying around. Shove it in the envelope. This is a grassroots affair. We need some bread to do this well. Help a little and together great things happen.
Everyone Gets a Copy
Everyone who submits something for consideration will get a copy of the next issue in the mail. You wake up someday soon, and open the mailbox, and suddenly Broadside Journal appears! Truly decent reading material that is genuinely appreciated by other writers.