Friday, November 25, 2005

Johnny America

Johnny America is a small journal of fiction, humor, and other miscellany. It’s also a web site, updated frequently and with much affection. Johnny America #3 (Halloween, 2005) sports thread binding and glow-in-the-dark covers, and is available now from our online shop.


Their submissions page is worth a read:
Submissions will be skimmed by a junior volunteer of questionable competence who sneaks web access while at his day job. If he likes a submission he will forward it to our lazy and capricious editors, who depending on their sobriety might or might not take notice. Our junior volunteer’s attention span is limited and his taste unrefined, so here are a few ideas that will likely propel a submission past him: reviews of bars (he likes to drink), stories with explosions, obtuse film reviews that he’ll misidentify as Clever, stories featuring Lucy Liu or any other Asian sexpot handwashing clothes or preparing dinner, non-fiction accounts of supernatural creatures (including unicorns). Mind that brevity is rewarded by our volunteer screener, and poetry by persons other than Stephanie Wakefield and Keith Kennedy is consistently rejected. We do not know why.

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