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Nat. Brut’s (pr. nat broot) principal mission is to showcase the work of writers and artists who have been historically devalued or pigeonholed by art and literary institutions. We publish work that has been buried, ignored, and disappeared from public consciousness. Equally, we seek work that comes from artists’ buried, ignored, and disappeared impulses and practices—the risky, the exploratory, and the potentially ugly.

We bring together work that is serious and humorous, formal and experimental, by artists and writers who are trained and untrained, emerging and established. The work that we publish is intentionally representative of different identities, perspectives, and experiences. We believe in the power of presenting all of these voices in proximity.

Please be familiar with the magazine and read the information below before you submit.

General Submission Information: Please Read

We are currently holding free open fiction, nonfiction, comics, and poetry submissions June 1, 2023–July 15, 2023. We are also open for folio submissions until July 15, 2023. We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.

General submission guidelines:

  • We DO accept folio, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry via the Oleada submissions platform. Please be familiar with the guidelines below for each category before submitting.

  • If you are not able to submit through Oleada, please send us an email at editor@natbrut.com.

  • We DO NOT accept or respond to poetry, nonfiction, or fiction submissions that do not follow our guidelines.

  • We DO NOT currently accept unsolicited interviews, visual art, video art, video poetry, or animation.

  • Please send only work that is previously unpublished (with the exception of comics submissions). We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in the notes section of the form, and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification) if it’s accepted elsewhere.

 

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Please Note: Nat. Brut no longer releases biannual print issues. We do, however, publish content regularly online. Work accepted for publication online will be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.

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The Wild I
Issue 17 Folio

Guest Editors

Noa Mendoza

Ayaz Muratoglu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


For Nat. Brut Issue 17 we are seeking work based around the idea of “exploding the I,” drawing from Dorothea Lasky: “all poets harness a wildness in the I of our poems. An I in a poem contains so much ego––is so puffed up with its brute strength––that it is willing to shred itself in the space of the poem. Or, that is to say, it feels so strong and confident to be itself that it feels completely free not to be anything at all.”

We're interested in poems that explore the ‘I’ as a tense, a noun, a particle of language, as extension of form. Is ‘I’ a space of world building or a space of collapse? Where does ‘I’ expand and relax and open? When is ‘I’ untrue? Or is ‘I’ always true?

This prompt is open, permeable, but seeks at its core an interrogation of the personal through an explosion of the I. We are drawing from the tradition of diaries, journals, and epistolaries (‘the literature of I’), but seek to deepen and complicate this, to see the ‘I’ as language, as vocabulary, as medium itself. Like the ‘I’ in the final stanza of O’Hara’s Mayakovsky, we are looking for poems that purposefully mistake the ‘I’ for something beyond the self. How might the ‘I’ facilitate or break away from meter, tension, musicality? We want to be surprised by what ‘I’ can hold, what it can’t, and where it slips away, or into something new.

  • Please limit five poems per submission.

  • We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.

  • Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.

  • Please send only work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to support@natbrut.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions close July 15, 2023.

Final stanza of Mayakovsky by Frank O’Hara:


  It may be the coldest day of
  the year, what does he think of
  that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
  perhaps I am myself again.


When I or Else by June Jordan


   when I or else when you
  and I or we
  deliberately I lose I
  cannot choose if you if
  we then near or where
  unless I stand as loser
  of that losing possibility
  that something that I have
  or always want more than much
  more at
  least to have as less and
  yes directed by desire

Folio

Fiction Submission Guidelines

Fiction Editor

Diamond Forde

  • We consider stories of any length. Please limit one story per submission

  • We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.

  • Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.

  • Please only send work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to fiction@natbrut.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions close July 15, 2023.

Fiction Submissons

Poetry Submission Guidelines

Poetry Editor

Alana Solin

  • Please limit five poems per submission.

  • We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.

  • Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.

  • Please send only work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to poetry@natbrut.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions close July 15, 2023.

Poetry Submissons

Creative Nonfiction Submission Guidelines

Nonfiction Editor

Meghan Lamb 

  • Nat. Brut publishes memoirs, personal essays, and literary journalism surrounding issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, and identity as they relate to creative output and representation in art, publishing, and academia. We seek to publish work that is incisive and moving while remaining accessible to a broad, non-specialist audience.

  • We consider pieces up to 5,000 words in length, and we also consider pitches, both for single and serial pieces.

  • Please limit one essay per submission.

  • We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.

  • Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.

  • Please send only work that is previously unpublished. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to nonfiction@natbrut.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions close July 15, 2023.

Nonfiction Submisins

Comics Submission Guidelines

Comics Editors

Kayla E and Tony Wei Ling

  • We consider standalone short comics up to 10 pages, suitable for online reading. 

  • Please limit one piece per submission. 

  • We aim to have a turn-around time of three months for all open submissions.

  • Please note that we are currently an online-only publication and are no longer releasing biannual print issues. Work accepted for publication online will, however, be considered for publication in any future Nat. Brut print anthology.

  • Unlike our other sections, you may send work that was previously published. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter and be sure to withdraw your piece promptly (via an email notification to comics@natbrut.com) if it’s accepted elsewhere.

  • Submissions close July 15, 2023.

Please send submissions to comics@natbrut.com.

Comics
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