Why subscribe?
Because you’re a dumpster fire.
We Deliver Monthly.
Cause anything more would just be fancy.
Flash Your Trash.
Send us your best goddamn writing (more about what we like, here). We opened for subs in January 2025.
Closed until next Submission cycle.
Submission Guidelines: (CLOSED)
When DIRTBAG opens for subs, email us (____) your double-spaced story/poem/excerpt as an attachment, along with a third-person bio. Please use “DIRTBAG SUBS” in the email subject field. Non-compliant submissions will be compacted in a digital dumpster.
DIRTBAG will accept or decline your submission within two to three months. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please, let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We will cheer you.
Don’t Plagiarize.
If we decline your submission and you would like to send us something different, please wait until the next submission cycle opens period to submit again.
We, unfortunately, cannot pay our writers at this time. But, we will never charge you to submit, or hide your work behind a paywall.
DIRTBAG wants first-time publication rights, which revert back to the author immediately following publication. If your work is reprinted elsewhere (say, on a bathroom wall), please acknowledge DIRTBAG as the original publisher. DIRTBAG will consider reprints, as long as the author owns the rights to the work (see #3.)
Masthead:
Mike Itaya, editor-in-chief
Genevieve Murdick, managing editor
Oliver Murdick, art
