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Are there actually any *good* online lit sites...

Started by Scarlet Intangible, April 28, 2021, 10:23:24 AM

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to read (and submit) poems/short stories on?


Every time I go on one to read new* stuff I am very quickly bored. It's either (mostly) not very good, or (sometimes) sort of okay-ish. Once or twice I've read something I thought was brilliant. But most of the time I'm underwhelmed.

So... recommend me a good site? There must be at least one good[nb]Yes - 'good' is subjective. What I mean when I say 'good' is - 'to my taste' (which is objectively good).[/nb] one. Maybe it's beyond the search engine's cretinous grasp. (I guess I will say for clarity - what bores me about a lot of the stuff I read is the feeling like I've read it before; so I want something exciting I guess. Should I use the word 'experimental', or would that make me a twat?)


*as in recently published, not just 'new' to me

With regards to poetry
https://www.poetryfoundation.org
is probably the one I look at the most, though
https://www.3ammagazine.com
is currently accepting submissions in an experimental style- if you go to their submissions page you'll see they've got a very specific thing in mind.

poloniusmonk

Always Crashing is pretty good, if a pain to navigate: https://www.alwayscrashing.com

This is one of my favourite things I have read recently: https://www.alwayscrashing.com/current?offset=1618322400621

Thank you both.

The one thing I want to submit is short fiction, which 3am aren't accepting atm. I have a few places in mind, along with Always Crashing now too.