I made a magazine!

[emma]

Well, sort of. It's a website, and I made it with a bunch of other really awesome people. Still, I'm super proud of it - I've been working on it for a really long time, and I think it's turned out pretty well.

It's an online literary magazine for "unpublishable literature" - stories and poems that got cut or killed or rejected from other magazines, but that are good enough that we felt like they should have a place somewhere. It's a really weird mix of work and contributors - probably the only place you can find stuff by Helen DeWitt and Sheila Heti next to a rap by a guy called Oldskool Toadstool - but I think it works (sort of).

Anyway, it's over here if you're interested: http://incongruousquarterly.com/.

Sorry for the boring post. You guys are the nicest/coolest bunch of internet people I know, which is why I want you to read it. </boring sincerity>

[Emily]

This is marvelous!

Emma is fantastic!

Hooray for literature & rejection (that leads to better things) & 21st century zines!

[DoodleJump!]

I love it! Thanks, Emma.
I shalt spread the word.

[fonpr]

Well, sort of. It's a website, and I made it with a bunch of other really awesome people. Still, I'm super proud of it - I've been working on it for a really long time, and I think it's turned out pretty well.

It's an online literary magazine for "unpublishable literature" - stories and poems that got cut or killed or rejected from other magazines, but that are good enough that we felt like they should have a place somewhere. It's a really weird mix of work and contributors - probably the only place you can find stuff by Helen DeWitt and Sheila Heti next to a rap by a guy called Oldskool Toadstool - but I think it works (sort of).

Anyway, it's over here if you're interested: http://incongruousquarterly.com/.

Sorry for the boring post. You guys are the nicest/coolest bunch of internet people I know, which is why I want you to read it. </boring sincerity>

Really like the concept.  No longer "unpublishable" once  published.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Nice!

Sheila Heti is great.  I really like that blog of Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama dreams she did in 2008.  And the Kill Fee section has some serious heavy hitters in it. 

[emma]

So the second issue is out now, and I'm super super proud of it. A very weird but awesome mix of poetry and fiction, PLUS a music section that features nine "unpublishable" tracks from a bunch of very different artists. Holy Fuck made us a 7-minute sound collage out of stuff they've recorded on tour on their iphones, Amy Klein (you may know her as the extremely badass guitarist from Titus Andonicus) gave us a beautiful solo recording, Jasmyn Burke from RatTail recorded a poem over voicemail for us - I could go on, but you should probably just go look at it. I know I'm biased, but I think it's pretty cool.

www.incongruousquarterly.com

!

(and thank you for looking/being so patient with my shameless self-promotion.)