We publish writers who call us by the wrong name in their cover letters. We hire people who have typos in their resumes. Whatever, you know?
Identity Theory
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Identity Theory
@IdentityTheory
Online lit mag publishing fiction, poetry, CNF, interviews, micro, hybrid, & more. Est. 2000. bsky.app/profile/identi…
- Listen, we are one of 50 lit mags to have published a certain writer in the past year. And it's true: this makes us slop. A cartoon corgi for a profile pic! Lame enough to still be posting on (Twitter)! On a Saturday! Clearly no standards whatsoever. We love everybody.
- Danielle Rose is no longer affiliated with Identity Theory. We'll comment further on this tomorrow but wanted to acknowledge that what happened is not okay and we have responded. We don't take this lightly; we want you to feel welcome and supported. We are listening.
- We aren't a fancy lit mag. We aren't clever. We aren't better than you. We're just some people and a corgi and a few cats. Send us your writing or don't. If we pass on it, it's probably still good. Maybe it'll end up in the Best of Someplace Someyear. Whatever.
- It's hard to run a lit mag during an apocalypse.
- Submissions have been slow since a member of the True Literary Elite outed us as a random website that publishes slop and garbage. We're fine with that. Think of how easy it'll be for you to hit your 50 pubs now that there's less competition. Submit now!
- Dear friends: Given the discourse our form rejection letter has spawned, we are sharing it with you. Please note that this letter is a group effort that incorporates feedback we got from Twitter users in the past. We aren't attached to it, and we are always open to suggestions.
- Why aren't more readings held at fast food joints and ice cream spots? Thinking about holding a reading at Dairy Queen.
- Someone was like "I need to withdraw my submission because you tweeted support for democrats" like wait what mag did you think you were submitting to? We published three interviews with Howard Zinn, people.
- Replying to @PreetBhararaThat's a long time for a man to hold press conferences denigrating the electoral process in new and interesting ways. I can't imagine the news cycles we are fated to experience in the coming weeks.
- Editing a lit mag should be fun. Writing for a lit mag should be fun. Don't lose sight of the joy.
- What's up, y'all? Just dropped in to let you know we got a submission yesterday. That was nice. It was nice to get a submission.
- Many writers aspire to place their work in a "Big 432" lit journal. As the 433rd best lit journal, we can't help you fulfill that dream. But we are happy to provide a stepping stone for your greater literary ambitions. Consider sending us your work.
- Literary (Twitter) is like 5% of what it used to be.
