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5 months

Joyland is back open for submissions. Please submit only one story or essay at a time. We are able to pay writers $100 per piece. We look forward to reading your work.

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Joyland Magazine

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2 years

Mark your calendars: we’re opening for fee-free submissions this weekend!

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3 months

Joyland commits to adhering to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and to complying with the underlying guidelines for the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

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2 years

Attention writers: we're open for fiction and nonfiction submissions (10,000 words or fewer).

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4 years

Looks like it’s MFA acceptance/rejection letter season again. Not sure who needs to see this, but most (all?) literary journals truly do not give a shit whether or not you have an MFA. We certainly don’t.

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Joyland Magazine

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2 years

Ready to publish your work? We're open for submissions for short stories, creative nonfiction essays, and excerpts.

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Joyland Magazine

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4 years

Welcome to the new Joyland.

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3 years

Today on Joyland: new fiction by Brandon Taylor ( @blgtylr )

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6 months

We are pleased to announce our nominations for this year's Pushcart Prize. Congratulations our our nominees, @emotrophywife , @giganticanovel , @maxdelsohn , @notyouemily , @blgtylr , and @azhang852 .

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3 years

We are offering free general submissions for the months of June and July. Send us your fiction and creative nonfiction.

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6 years

Pro tip. When you receive a rejection from a literary mag, don't forget to reply with a page long screed about how much you hate the mag now. It's amazing how many emerging authors miss this important step in relationship building.

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Joyland Magazine

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2 years

We are offering 75 free submissions, starting today and ending October 17 at 11:59pm ET. Please submit your fiction and creative nonfiction here:

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5 years

literary journals bragging about auto-rejecting an author because they misspelled a word in the second sentence of their story is, uh, “a weird flex,” as the youths say

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3 years

"In the other timeline they were laughing at a joke one of them had made. In the other timeline his hand was on her thigh and no one had just sort of thrown up. Her hair looked better over there, too." — from 'Ten Year Affair' by Erin Somers

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Joyland Magazine

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4 years

We’ve got a new look and are open for submissions. Send us your fiction and creative nonfiction:

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Joyland Magazine

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3 years

Submissions for our Open Border Fiction Prize are OPEN! @tkiramadden is the judge & winner receives $1,000 USD & publication. We can't wait to read your work.

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Joyland Magazine

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3 years

We are delighted to share our nominees for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to the nominees!

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Joyland Magazine

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3 years

We're offering *free* general submissions through the end of the month. Send us your stories and nonfiction before 8/1.

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3 years

"Do you remember how love tasted? I do." — from 'Sediment' by Divya Maniar

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Joyland Magazine

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7 years

How about some good news? Starting Nov 1st, all writers on Joyland will be paid, not just our print contributors.

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2 years

We are offering 75 free submissions beginning today, March 11, and running through 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, March 14. Send us your work!

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6 years

When going through the slush we will NOT automatically reject: - bad titles (easy fix!) - no previous pubs (gotta start somewhere!) - font choice (omg why would you ever use comic sans!) We WILL auto reject: - Racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic stories (bye forever!)

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Joyland Magazine

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4 years

It's that time! Each month, Joyland waives submissions fees for a weekend. You can submit your work to us for $0.00 now through Sunday, 7/26 at 11:59 p.m. Please only submit one piece of work for each fee-free period.

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Joyland Magazine

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5 years

We're sad to say goodbye to @kylelucia , one of the people who made Joyland what it is today, but happy to announce that @michellelynking is the new owner of Joyland. So excited to see where she and the editors take this journal from here!

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4 years

A new Joyland Magazine is on its way. See you soon.

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4 years

A new website means a new masthead. We’d like to introduce you to our team of editors. First up, our editor-in-chief @michellelynking . Michelle's work has been published in Catapult, Hobart, and Triangle House. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College.

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Throughout the month of January, we will be donating 50% of our Submittable fees to eSims for Gaza. We will be making donations on 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, and 2/4.

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"He mentions that I have a lot of weapons on my key chain which makes me think that there are not enough."—Katie Burke from her essay 'Typically a Woman'

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Joyland Magazine

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4 years

. @dantielwmoniz is joining us an editor for the South. Dantiel's fiction has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Joyland, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and elsewhere. MILK BLOOD HEAT is her first book. She lives in Northeast Florida.

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5 years

Starting today, Joyland will be donating all money raised from our Submittable fees to @yellowfund . This offer will last through Sunday, 5/19.

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8 months

Today on Joyland, new fiction by Brandon Taylor.

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7 years

"Break All the Way Down" by @rgay is our most read story ever. Now you can read it in her collection Difficult Women

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2 years

We’ll be donating all submission fees from today through July 1 to the National Network of Abortion Funds. General submissions, $4.50: Open Border Fiction Prize, $5:

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Joyland Magazine

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3 years

Joyland Magazine is now accepting entries for its 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize, to be judged by T Kira Mahealani Madden ( @tkiramadden ). The winning entry will receive $1000 (US) and be published on Joyland.

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1 year

Today on Joyland: "Affection," an excerpt from @emializh 's forthcoming collection of short stories, GIRLFRIENDS, a witty and sharp story story about parties, kissing, and whether or not one should stay in graduate school.

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Joyland Magazine

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4 years

This isn’t an insult to MFA programs. They can be useful. But if you’re getting rejections, know that it’s not an indication that you shouldn’t continue writing.

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3 years

We're offering free submissions this weekend! Send us your fiction and creative nonfiction here:

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Joyland Magazine

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2 years

We are delighted to share the news that “Masculine” by Mathilde Merouani is the winner of our 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize, judged by T Kira Māhealani Madden ( @tkiramadden ). Mathilde's vivid and devastating story is available now on Joyland.

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6 years

Submissions for our $1000 fiction prize are now open! This year our judge is @rachelkhong , author of the acclaimed novel Goodbye, Vitamin!

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1 year

Today on Joyland: An excerpt from SALMON, a novella by Sebastian Castillo ( @bartlebytaco ) about a young poet and his travels to a mysterious country named SALMON.

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Jo Barchi ( @theyarenotaboy ) is our new Midwest Editor. Jo is a writer/editor/ice cream scooper living in Chicago. They have previously been an editor at Ghost City Press, and Les Figues Press. Their work has appeared in Hobart, Triangle House Review, and Peach Mag.

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2 years

Our Open Border Fiction Prize, judged by @AlexKleeman , is now open! The winning story will receive $1,000 (US) and be published on Joyland. Two runner-up stories will also be published and will each receive $250 (US).

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Joyland Magazine

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6 years

All hail @michellelynking , who has been moved to Executive Editor! Michelle started out as a contributor, then submissions editor, managing editor, & now Executive Editor. She's done it all & we can't live without her!

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Joyland Magazine

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3 years

Starting today through Monday, 12/21 we'll be donating all Submittable fees to purchase gifts and gift cards via Transanta (), an Instagram-based community organization that helps to deliver gifts to trans youth in need.

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7 years

We're looking for an Editorial Assistant to join our team!

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1 year

We’re overjoyed to announce the results of our 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. Finalists were selected by the editorial team at Joyland, and the winning stories were selected by @AlexKleeman . In first place is Amy Zhang’s masterful story, “Slow Clap.”

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Joyland Magazine

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2 years

Our Open Border Fiction returns on June 1 with @AlexKleeman as the judge! The winning story will receive $1,000 (US) and be published on Joyland. Two runner-up stories will also be published and will each receive $250 (US).

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"I remember he said we should take a bath together, and I remember his body—my naked body, his naked body, and how his nakedness neither invited nor intimidated; it just existed." — from 'The Most Fun We’ll Ever Have' by Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng

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“Sometimes—and this was a tragic element to contemporary life—you experienced something deeply intimate with a person, and it was this very experience of intimacy which foreclosed all possible intimacy in the future.” —from ‘Warehouses’ by Brandon Taylor

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3 years

Please join us in welcoming the newest members to the Joyland team! Walker Caplan ( @walkercapl ) is joining us as Managing Editor and Maddie Crum ( @maddiecrum ) is our newest Northeast editor.

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In “Initial Conditions” by @which_is_to_say , two assistants manually install the work of an abstract artist who makes “light sculptures,” and whose vision is either vague or brilliant.

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“I swear to Odin (that’s a viking god) when I saw what was happening at cage three I almost turned and walked away.” A retail employee is surprised on the ladies’ fashion floor in @monetwithlove ’s “Three Arms.” New on Joyland South!

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3 years

We're donating 100% of this weekend's Submittable fees to @toofound , an organization dedicated to providing necessary resources for Austin, TX's homeless population.

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3 years

Today on Joyland: an evocative essay on youth and a suburban summer. "The Buddy System" by Cassie Mannes Murray.

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5 years

Today on Joyland, flash fiction by Joseph Grantham ( @MisterJGrantham ) about the way grief messes with your head:

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1 year

"I was a POC (plus)—subcategory: Indian (minus)—Muslim (plus), straight (minus), upper middle class (minus). Alana was white (neutral), straight (minus), Jewish (plus), and seemingly rich (minus)." —Nabeel Chollampat, "Private Viewing Mode"

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Joyland Magazine

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4 years

Have you been working on a story or essay? Send it our way! We're waiving submissions fees through November 6.

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3 years

Today on Joyland South, a new short story by Daisuke Shen. "Good Route, Bad Route" is told from the point of view of a lonely video game developer, haunted by his past.

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6 years

Before we leave, here's one final shout out to the editors who brought greatness to Joyland every week of 2017: @CarleighBaker @themockler @senzaflash @bhurthimself @jdsctt @kylelucia @manualofstyle @RebekahBergman @KaitGetsLit & Michelle Lyn King!

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3 years

Today on Joyland South, finding meaning in a place of remarkable insignificance. An exploration of memory and trauma in "Skateland USA" by Graham Irvin ( @grahamjirvin ).

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Today on Joyland: "The Jester's Privilege" by Madeline Cash, a short story that uses microscopic shellfish, French cuisine, and a multilateral NDA to examine the paradox of work and meaning.

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6 years

"Greg says I like to antagonize people. (I say I like to make people think.)" From the new story, "Signs," by the brilliant Elizabeth Ellen up at @joylandfiction Midwest. Read!

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5 years

this story by @franhoepfner will take you back to undergrad, back to days of wearing weird sweaters and being a piece of shit

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4 years

Thank you to all the writers who submitted to us in June! Because of you, we were able to donate $782.40 to @TheOkraProject .

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3 years

All the mindreader's wife wants is for the mindreader to read her mind... or so she thinks. What happens in a marriage when more than knowledge—of the self and our loved ones—is at stake? Today on Joyland South: "Allelopathy" by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya.

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4 years

Today on Joyland: Elizabeth Ellen's "Snatch Shots" is a character study of a people-pleasing pop princess that follows her rise to fame, drug-addled fallout, and artistic comeback.

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Joyland is open for submissions for creative nonfiction, short stories, and novel excerpts. We pay $100 USD per story or essay.

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In "Family: Orchid," a new short story by K-Ming Chang, a daughter watches her mother and aunt, both of them Orchids, as they think about death, breeding, and birth, in the shadow of their Taiwanese heritage. Available now on Joyland:

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Today on Joyland: a new short story from Jimmy Cajoleas. "Tongues" is a coming-of-age confession about being lost, then found, then lost again.

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Today on Joyland: "The Gold Thread" by John Cotter ( @smalllights ) about a crew of poets and a hyacinth macaw searching the city for hidden treasure:

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7 years

In need of Friday plans? Might we suggest getting your heart broken by @brandonlgtaylor 's new story?

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Today on Joyland: "Like Goldfish" by Shy Watson ( @formermissNJ ), an audacious and savagely funny about fifth-grade make-outs, Vacation Bible School, hunger, and longing.

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6 years

We're *so* excited to announce to announce the news that our new New York editor is @amyshearn ! Amy is a brilliant writer and editor, and probably could've edited the last sentence so that it didn't have some version of the word 'new' 3x.

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"Grief has no predictable stages." —from 'Berthe Morisot’s Last Letter' by @summerbrennan , new today on Joyland

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hello @WritersofColor -- would love for you to promote our $1,000 Open Border Fiction Prize to your brilliant fiction-writing followers!

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Submissions for our $1000 fiction prize are now open! This year our judge is @rachelkhong , author of the acclaimed novel Goodbye, Vitamin!

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Join us in congratulating our nominees for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. Cheers to Dan Hong, Rowan Beaird @rebeaird , Santiago Jose Sanchez @sntsnchz , Eshani Surya @__eshani , Dantiel W. Moniz, @dantielwmoniz , and Joseph Han @hanjoseph !

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"We picked up a fifth of Jim Beam at the corner store and he bought me a keychain with my name on it." —from 'The Voice' by Leila Register ( @leilaregister ), new today on Joyland

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Today on Joyland South, a new short story from Caroline Diorio about the limits of control and what it means to be a monster:

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"I ask God to take the heartburn away and nothing happens. I chew chalky tablets of medicine to the sound of more commercials." — from 'Pledge, Prayers' by Kayla Jean Murphy ( @dbtoil ), new today on Joyland

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Our 2018 Open Border prize launches Jan 9th. Until then, we're revisiting last year's winners and shortlisters. Here's "Kindling" by @kermichele

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"West Coast looked down, refocusing her eyes, a hard task for tipsy girls with electronic music-damaged eardrums wearing dresses whose hems do not stay down." —from 'The Petting Zoo' by Jade Song ( @jadessong )

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In celebration of @kundimanforever 's 20th anniversary, we are proud to announce the Joyland x Kundiman: 20th Anniversary Summer Series, a series of 20 prose publications from 20 Kundiman Fellows that will run from May-August on .

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We couldn't be happier for our senior editor @kylelucia !

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Today on Joyland: John Doe ( @pain___house ) exposes the nervy consciousness of a logged-on, yearning Everyman.

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Today on Joyland South: Tia Clark ( @tiamfnc ) expertly renders the particularities of love and hunger in a middle school-aged girl in "All This Want and I Can't Get None"

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"When you die, I become obsessed with recreating you. I walk endlessly through our town, to notable places in your life." — from 'Maps' by Vanessa Chan ( @vanjchan )

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"She closed her eyes. Her stomach dropped. She felt chilled and was unable to open her eyes. This was not painful." New fiction by Alex Higley ( @higley_alex ) up now on Joyland:

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A powerful new story by @teamutonji on Joyland Canada: "Property of Neil":

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. @woodlandraised is one of our new editors for the South. Ashleigh is from rural Woodland, North Carolina. Her collection SLEEPOVERS won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, selected by Lauren Groff. Her stories have appeared in The Oxford American and The Paris Review.

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"At Mama Agbor’s Joint, there were times when palm-wine and ogogoro and beer flowed like a stream, when even the lame came out of their hideouts to drink." — from 'Mercy' by by Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, available now on Joyland

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Claire is sitting in a meeting when she gets the notification that the host of a semi-successful political podcast has followed her back. "Friend of the Pod" by Frannie Comstock, available today on Joyland.

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Congrats to all the Indigenous Voices Awards Finalists including Joyland contributor and editor @CarleighBaker !

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Cofounder @BotJosephDavis 's forensic look at literary adaptations gets a profile at @BDisgusting .

Artist Draws Horror Villains As They Were Originally Written

Yes, Dracula totally had a mustache. We all have images in our minds of what the most iconic literary-based horror villains look like, but oddly enough, those images often don’t look at all the way...

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We’re excited to announce that Wendy C. Ortiz ( @WendyCOrtiz ) will be joining Joyland as a Nonfiction Guest Editor from March 15-April 15.

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Today on Joyland South, follow a typical Saturday in the life of a boy who gives shelter to stray fathers. "Bad Daddy" by Rickey Fayne ( @rickeyfayne ). Inspired by the work of Terrance Hayes.

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""An emotionally unavailable man is the blank canvas that I’m most comfortable with." —Jo Barchi, 'The First Taste'

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"To realize destiny is the purpose and pleasure of life. So say the rishis." — from 'NETRATĀ' by Mila Jaroniec ( @milajaroniec ), available today on Joyland

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Writers: we're open for general submissions and our editors are ready to read your work. Submit to us via Submittable.

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We're waiving our submission fee now through November 6. Please submit your short stories, excerpts, and creative nonfiction to us via

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