Villain Era celebrates the petty vendetta, the enduring grudge, the annoying inconvenience. Who hurt you? Tell us. On the other hand, tell us about when you were someone else’s villain.
While we love a good revenge story, Villain Era is not an outlet for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, or any other sick thinking you want to direct to a group of people, especially a marginalized group.
Villain Era is agnostic of form and tradition, but while we love form and tradition, we also really love innovation and discovery. Send us your weird little angry poems and your snotty sonnets. We’ll also take your fiction, if you have it. The shorter the better. But good is good.
When you have a score to settle and you want to enter the octagon verse first, that’s when you should think of us.
Unpublished work only. Simultaneous submissions encouraged. Send 3-5 poems of any style, no longer than 10 pages total. Fiction or nonfiction up to 6,000 words. (If it’s longer or weirder than a word count, send it anyway and let us know in the email what’s going on.) Email as a Word doc or RTF to villaineralit at gmail dotcom. Put your full name and “Submission” in the subject line. Be kind——don’t use wacky fonts or anything beyond the 10-12 point range.
All work should be representative of your villain era(s).
NEW!
Villain Era is open to book reviews and interviews, too!
Please query us by email to pitch your review or interview, with a very brief statement noting how you see your piece fitting into our editorial focus.
Villain Era’s Vendettas
Sometimes your revenge needs to be really specific. Focused. Targeted. Personal.
That’s why we’ll be hosting a series of Vendettas, special folios of themed work with specific submission periods and guidelines. Be on the look out for these very special calls for submission by following our social accounts.
Let justice prevail.
