Menagerie publishes fiction, essay, poetry, and hybrid works. What we like: sentences so sharp they draw blood; the strange and inexplicable; the wild and weird and uncanny. Our menagerie contains curios of all sizes and shapes. 

Menagerie Magazine houses crafted exhibits of text and art.

Each issue is a curated statement: several poems, fictions, and hybrid works that deserve the close attention of a small stage. Like a Joseph Cornell shadow box, we bring together a mixture of objects. Things both found and made, memories and discoveries, outcast and beloved. 

Hybrid and uncategorizable pieces are of interest. Likewise the unwieldy, the absurd, the grotesque. What others may spurn we embrace. We’re less interested in knowing what a thing is than in seeing what it does.

Things we like: fictions ala Borges, Link, Calvino, & Sparks; weird lyric essay; engagements with the environment and natural world; poems that explode form; bricolage, masala, & sagul sagul; forays into the omnipresent information-saturated online architecture we live in.

Things we don’t: lukewarm prose, sentences bereft of emotion, formulaic attempts at being on trend, conformity, pat endings, sentiment-drenched rhyming poems, neat and orderly stories.

This is the menagerie. A shadow box. A pin cushion. A junk drawer. A curio cabinet.

Welcome to our exhibition.

If you know, you know. These publications have exceptional energy and editorial vision, with an ineffable quality that makes them special.

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Menagerie Magazine

Tip Jar submissions are open at any time during the submission window.
  Fiction submissions should be no more than 5K. 
  One submission at a time, please.
  We tend to publish in the 1-3K category more frequently, given the short attention span we all have on the web.

Note: If only tip jar subs are available, that means we've hit our monthly (submittable-imposed) free cap. If you want to submit for free, just wait till the start of the next month.

Fiction

Tip Jar poems are open at any time during the submission window.
  Please submit 3-5 poems as a single file for consideration. 
  If one of the poems is accepted elsewhere, notify us, and we’ll continue considering the other poems in your submission.

Note: If only tip jar subs are available, that means we've hit our monthly (submittable-imposed) free cap. If you want to submit for free, just wait till the start of the next month.

Poetry

Tip Jar submissions are open at any time during the submission window. 
  Essays should be no more than 5K. 
  Hybrid submissions are encouraged.
  We tend to publish in the 1-3K category more frequently, given the short attention span we have on the web.
  One submission at a time, please.

Note: If only tip jar subs are available, that means we've hit our monthly (submittable-imposed) free cap. If you want to submit for free, just wait till the start of the next month.

Menagerie Magazine

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