The Chicago based magazine, Literary Orphans, is looking for pieces with an Irish angle. Not Oirish though, they are hasty to say. No Leprechauns or roads rising up to meet you, unless after 15 pints on the way home or perhaps in a post-apocalyptic way.
They take stories, poetry and flash fiction.
Send us your stories, your poems,
your lyric essays, your unwashed, your poor, your bastards, your
monsters, your orphans. We’re reading submissions for our Ireland issue.
We want writing that represents 21st Century Ireland in all its
multifaceted glory. Whether you’re Irish, of Irish descent, or simply
enjoy a glass of Tullamore Dew or Bushmills, send your best work.
Refrain, of course, from any mention of Emerald Isle, forty shades of
green, Leprechauns, St. Patrick, Riverdance, The Quiet Man, or other
similarly reductive tropes. Bring us the Ireland of expansive writing;
writing to curl our toes and send shivers down our hard drives.
Link
here
They say:
The world we struggle to create on these binary pages is a world that will make you uncomfortable and reflective. The writing on Literary Orphans is a mood more than a style.
It’s the nervous glances back at your apartment when you go for a walk
without your cell phone. It’s the nostalgia you have for squeaking
cassette tapes and Soviet ICBMs. It’s an analog dream in a digital era.
