Submission Guidelines - Read'em here....

We are interested in high-quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, comics, photography and other 2D art. Submissions can be on any subject; however, we are especially interested in work that voices alternative, non-mainstream, even radical views on politics, technology, the environment and modern culture. Poems can be traditional or experimental, fiction of any genre will be considered, and non-fiction should be fast-paced challenging.

Please submit no more than four poems, one short story, two REALLY stories, or one essay. For visual art, please submit no more than 3 pieces in any one media. Want to pitch a story idea? Contact us at the address below.

Please submit work digitally to:
Ricardo@feral-tech.com

By Post:
Rich Dana
OBSOLETE Magazine
POB 72
Victor, IA
52347


Please send a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with your work if you would like it returned. Do not send your only copy! Please do not send original artwork. We ask for first North American serial rights only. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication.

Thanks for spreading the word!!

A huge thanks to everyone who became on of the first 100 Facebooger fans of OBSOLETE  Magazine, and for spreading the word!  We are looking for writers, cartoonists, poets and artists to contribute to the first issue, due out on July 4th- so if you rant, scribble, cut'n'paste or muse,  keep watching the blog for more details. Submission guidelines and ad rates will be out soon-  drop me a line with questions or story ideas!

Submission Guidelines....

Yes,  there will be some!  Stay tuned..... shoot me an email with questions or story ideas.

THIS JUST IN!

Issue one will include a limited edition silk-screened cover wrap by Don Rock of TERROR WORLDWIDE and CHAOS CARDS .... Don's work has graced T-Shirts and concert posters for The Butthole Surfers, Survival Research, CBGB, Psychic TV and others.....

Why Publish a Rag? You ask WHY?

Yes, Brothers and Sisters, it's time- time to KICK OUT THE JAMS with a new, radical, revolutionary and raunchy ZINE!  No, not an "E-Zine" - this ain't no blog, vlog or twit... this is a real, turn your fingers black, pulpy paper product!  A newsprint tabloid, complete with slapdash layout, smudgy printing and inflammatory rhetoric!

Why a tabloid, you ask? Why an anachronistic throwback in this era in which we each have access to a veritable digital cornucopia of information?  Because, Dear Reader, THE TIME HAS COME! It is time to embrace the obsolete! Because, to paraphrase an old saw, "You had better be nice to the technologies you meet on the way UP the evolutionary ladder, because you are sure to meet them on the way DOWN...."

Need more reasons?  Try these on for size:

Can you fold a blog and shove it fashionably into your back pocket while waiting on line at a punk show, soup kitchen or welfare office?  NO!

Can you read a "Tweet" during take off and landing?  NO!

Can you line the cat box with and E-Zine?  NO!

Can you roll a website into a fuse for a Molotov cocktail?  NO!

Can you watch a youtube video after the utility company shuts off your power? MAYBE.... but probably NOT!

On the other hand...

Can you cut letters out of a tabloid to make a hard-to-trace ransom note?  YES!

Can you fold a tabloid into a hat?  YES!

Can you sit in the park, or on the train, or on the beach, or on the curb outside a punk rock club and read entertaining and thought-provoking articles in a tabloid without the use of an expensive and environmentally-unfriendly hazardous technology, and can you then turn to a complete stranger and offer them said tabloid as a gift, yes a FREE GIFT, impressing them so much with your hipness and earnest generosity that they seek you out later in the evening, strike up an in-depth conversation on the controversial and thought-provoking content of the aforementioned tabloid and eventually invite you back to their flat for guilt-free casual sex?  YES,  YES and YES!

These are but a few of the reasons to take part in the OBSOLETE Magazine revolution- Submit you rants, scribbles and revelations today!

OBSOLETE Magazine #1 - Submit to me NOW!

 Are you thinking about life in our big, beautiful strip-mall of a country-  Life after the fall? Life in post-industrial, post-imperial, post-prosperity, post-democracy, post-technology AMERIKA?

Submit your essays, artwork, poems, articles and comics TODAY!!!!!  Deadline is May 1st for the Summer edition- it will be the premiere issue of this chaotic quarterly, so be a part of it!

Questions? ricardo@feral-tech.com