We Ain’t Fancy.
Send us your best goddamn writing. We’re open for subs in 2025.
1. Because Writing has a Stick up its Ass. And Doesn’t Need One.
No one here is Tom Clancy. This is all for fun.
2. Calling All Dirtbags
Larry Brown. John Jodzio. Kevin Barry. Sean Ennis. Eliot Li. Jim Gavin. Wells Tower. Jim Harrison’s Brown Dog novellas. B Porter.
You?
Heavy Feather Review, BULL, Cleaver Magazine, Taco Bell Quarterly, X-R-A-Y, Lodge 49, HAD, Party Down, Letterkenny, Fleabag, Sideways, Shotgun Stories, BoJack Horseman. Deftones. Cobra Kai (Season One).
3. “What is a Dirtbag?”
We know it when we see it.
“writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself” (Faulkner).
“when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your own flourishing” (Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism).
For Extra Dirtbag Swag, See Adrienne Matei’s article in The Atlantic.
4. Dirtbag: Flash Your Trash
We publish fiction of all shapes and sizes.
5. We Publish the Coolest Writers on Earth.
We don’t give a shit if you have an MFA. We don’t give a fuck if you don’t.