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Artifice is a nonprofit literary magazine, published twice annually, that aims, by content and context, to showcase creative work aware of its own artifice. The things we like, we like more than we can stand.


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The Wishlist

Note that the following are not intended to be prompts, but rather examples of the sorts of things, tonally and formally, we'd like to see in our submissions. Of course, the best way to figure out what we're looking for is to check out the magazine.

And don't forget to visit the Wishlist Archives.

  • A treasure map
  • A story in musical notation
  • 1 thing you might throw at a window, wrapped around a brick
  • Something that includes a Greek chorus
  • A timebomb, ticking or otherwise
  • 5 photos with captions
  • 3 pieces that will stump our graphic designer
  • The contents of a specialists' drawer
  • 24 want ads
  • 2 redactions
  • A narrative in the form of a maze
  • A maze in the form of a narrative
  • An assortment of graphs
  • 1 flowchart
  • A series of sticky notes (we won't limit you to Post-Its)
  • 4 poems that use clipart/small pictures as punctuation
  • 5 poems or stories in the form of equations
  • 3 poems created by elliding words from Project Gutenburg, Wikipedia, US Weekly or People Magazine quotations (ellided words should be included, but struck through or x'd out)
  • 1 poem cycle in which each poem in the cycle uses a different form
  • 1 concrete poem
  • 1 Literary/Horror/Western/Conspiracy story (that is, a story that's all four at once)
  • 3 poems created from tabloid articles via the cut-up method
  • 4 labyrinths created using parentheses, footnotes, endnotes, etc
  • 3 comics (.pdf format, please)
  • 5 stories that involve pictures, not as illustrations, but as an integral part of the stories themselves
  • 7 diagrams of horrible machines
  • 3 stories or poems in the form of rules to an imaginary game
  • 2 poems based in whole or in part on Akira Kurosawa movies
  • 1 poem meant to be included in an errata
  • 20-30 (at least!) drawings for a corner-of-the-magazine flipbook (Submit as .pdf; on acceptance, high res images will be needed)
  • 1 book review collaboration between the reviewer and the reviewed
  • 1 piece, any form, called "A Basic Guide to Science"
  • 2 stories or poems that involve folding or cutting the paper on which they are printed
  • 2 stories that require active reader participation
  • 1 story in the form of a multiple-choice personality inventory, such as the MMPI
  • 1 piece you'd tell a child not to put in their mouth
  • 1 Schrödinger's box
  • 1 Nutrition Facts Label
  • 1 bundle of hate mail tied with a ribbon
  • 1 bundle of love letters tied with a shoelace
  • Baby teeth
  • 1 frozen dinner
  • 1 audio cassette of yourself banging your face against a cake with squishy noises
  • A wall

 

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