We’re so excited to announce that for the first time since 2015, Spout Magazine is open for submissions!
Spout Magazine sets the table for weird writers (self-identifying). Spout values a DIY-like determination to produce and share creative work; we wish to be a home for writing that demands attention.
Send us your experiments, your genre-benders, your formal disasters. We admire writing that arrives as a gut-punch, a freak accident. Letters as phenomena conjured from an extreme source. Punctuation as estranged pulp. Syntax as evidence of an untoward divine. While we seek work that disorients us, we also invite writing that’s straight-forward, that deliberately engages with convention. Since we’re committed to publishing work of different styles, we may not know if we’d like something until we see it.
Spout lives at the intersection of the interdisciplinary, previously publishing the written work of musicians, the printed poetry of spoken word artists, historians’ cultural criticism, community organizers’ personal essays, and doodled agitprop.
Spout Magazine seeks to publish writers of all backgrounds and highly encourages submissions from writers and artists who have been historically underrepresented in publishing, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, D/deaf and disabled, system-impacted, and working-class writers, as well as all writers regardless of age, education, citizenship, nationality, and publication history. Spout is committed to the resistance against state violence everywhere, from Minneapolis to Turtle Island to Palestine, and we strive to reflect that solidarity in the community of writers and artists we publish.
Submissions are open through May 30th. Read our full guidelines and submit your work at Duosuma. Link in bio!
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Spout Press is thrilled to unveil our brand new website, beautifully designed by Hadley Hendrix (@hadleyhendrix ) and with support from CLMP (@clmp ) via the Small Press Future Fund.
Our new website at once captures Spout’s DIY, 90’s punk roots (check out that CMYK!) while adding features such as an accessible, responsive design and a user-friendly store to order books directly from Spout. The website includes several original drawings from Spout Magazine’s archive, connecting our earliest history to today as we continue book publishing and prepare to bring back Spout Magazine as an online magazine (more on that soon👀). We’d love for you to take a self-guided tour of our new digital digs!
As we share this news, we remain committed to drawing attention to ICE’s continued presence and impact upon the Twin Cities and Minnesota we call home. For the months of February and March, 20% of proceeds from all website orders will go to frontline organizations and mutual aid calls to get rent relief, groceries, supplies, and legal aid to those who need it most.
Spout Press's first poetry titles, THE BOOK OF ARCANA: TOMORROW'S STONE AGE COSMOLOGY TODAY and THE HOTEL STERNO by Jeffrey Little are both on sale for National Poetry Month, 30% off with the code SPOUTPOETRYMONTH26 (link in bio)
“This maniac’s treatment of the English language speaks to a larger apocalypse on the horizon…not to be missed.” – Paul D. Dickinson, CITY PAGES
"Gershom Scholem meets Max Bodenheim at the Hotel Sterno for tea (or something) with Kafka and Breton. Jeffrey Little rocks, twitches, and utters cascading numinal concatinations that sound good and are funny in a meaningful way. He’s an unsung poetry treasure; help discover him. Be the first in your neighborhood to put Jeffrey Little on the poetry map." —Maria Damon, author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry
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All poetry titles 30% off with the code SPOUTPOETRYMONTH26 for National Poetry Month! Get them at spoutpress.org.
Here are two of our favorite poetry books, SWEET NOTHING by @kazimalipoet and WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP by J. Otis Powell!? from our "Out of Pocket" series.
In SWEET NOTHING Kazim Ali finds, just beneath the details of daily life, the presence of spiritual reality. A corner of the street, a gesture of the hand, the pattern on a rug, all act as evidence of a generative emptiness. Sweet Nothing documents those details in a language of charmed engagement, and claims language, whether prayer, monologue, or poem, as our most prized of veils over the abyss, as the beauty that grows from sweet nothing and the technique of linking one life with another. Ali’s passionate attention explores the lyric truth of being alive, moment by moment.
In WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP, J. Otis Powell!? pens a deep acknowledgement to both the pain of language and its potential for liberation. In these elegant and absorbing poems, Powell!? pays soloist to a backdrop of jazz rhythm, capable of moving from the elegiac to the celebratory to expressing the haunted nature of American life. His poems describe how the moment of poetic expression arrives in daily life at soul level. This is a poetry of necessity.
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It’s Poetry’s birthday month, or so we’re told! All Spout poetry titles are 30% off on our website with the code SPOUTPOETRYMONTH26 through all of National Poetry Month. Link in bio.
Also, we’re still taking submissions of poetry (and fiction and thought and translation) for Spout Magazine through the end of May. Send us your work!
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Such a blessing to have the whole Spout collective together alongside @writlargeprojects for AWP in the charming, nautical Baltimore. Love the seafood, street art, fascists getting fired.
We debuted brand new Spout t-shirts, pictured at the booth. You can get yours through our website. Plus more books for our “Full Pockets” sale! Use code FULLPOCKETS26 for 30% off books through March 20th.
Spout's @iammichellefilkins and co-editor @mmaldrich4 will be talking about their Minnesota Book Award-winning Locker Room Talk: women in Private Spaces and share their knowledge and experience supporting writers as they find their voice and seek publication.
Books and merch will be available for purchase and signing. Thank you @chanhassenfriendsoflibrary for inviting us and sponsoring the event! Registration recommended (link in bio).
Hope you can join five editors from five small presses as we talk shop in a panel called “Small Presses Getting Big Attention” at AWP on Saturday, 3/7 from 12:10-1:25 in room 328, level 300. Our panel is sponsored by CLMP, is moderated by Xander Gershberg of Spout Press, and also features Perugia Press’s Rebecca Olander, June Road Press’s Sara Arnold, Trio House Press’s Natasha Kane, and Split/Lip Press’s Caleb Tankersley. We’ve really enjoyed getting the chance to share our experiences as editors in indie publishing, and we look forward to continuing that conversation with you! 📚📖🎤 @clmporg@awpwriter@ohmygershberg@spoutpress@rholanderpoet #perugiapress @saralikesbooks@juneroadpress@thebartendingeditor@triohousepress@caleb.tankersley@splitlippress #awp26
We’re so psyched for AWP this year! Say hello to us at booth #436 and swing by for our presence at the 12:10pm panel discussing how to find "success" as a small publisher in all its forms amidst a publishing ecosystem of bigger and more-resourced presses.
Also! We will be hosting brief open-mic readings with our boothmates Writ Large Projects (@writlargeprojects ) on Thursday, March 5th and Friday, March 6th at 11am, 2pm, and 4pm. Come to the booth to sign up!
Note: If you can’t make it to AWP, you can still participate in our book sales on our new website! All online book sales will be discounted during the AWP weekend, and we’re also donating 20% of our proceeds to frontline organizations and mutual aid calls to get rent relief, groceries, supplies, and legal aid to those who need it most.
Here's our top three reasons why we’re excited about AWP:
- Connecting with readers and writers face to face!
- Promoting our literary magazine, which we’re so excited to launch for the first time since 2015! Stay tuned for our call for open submissions.
- Organizing horizontally with presses, editors, and other creatives as we find unity in our commitment to quirky literary arts that disorient and delight us.
Cheers!
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Celebrate the reissue of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 (@wsupress ) with author Maureen Aitken and Mona Susan Power – author of 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 – who will share new work from her novel-in-progress!
Michelle Filkins from the collective will host the event, which is free and open to the public on Saturday, February 21st at 2pm.
Link in bio for registration and more information!
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Spout Magazine ran from 1989 to 2015. From the start, Spout prioritized publishing experimental writing by emerging writers, publishing early work by Richard Siken, Hoa Nguyen, Joanna Fuhrman, Hadara Bar-Nadav, and so many more.
Looking back at this archive, we are so humbled to have been included in their publishing journeys in this small way and to have shared their work with Spout readers.
As we relaunch Spout Magazine online on our new website next year, we're thrilled by the opportunity to encounter new work again. We really can't wait!
Right now, we're raising money to launch volume two of Spout Magazine. Please consider donating at the link in our bio @givemn to help us publish compelling writers again and host launch events with live-music here in the Twin Cities. Donations of $25+ will receive a thank-you gift of books and merch.
@richard_siken@hn2626@hadarabar@josarif
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