SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: underwood.reed@gmail.com. SUBMISSIONS DUE: JUNE, 2014

EUGENE TOOMS needs your “contribution.” Send him stories, send him poems, send him essays. Send him art. Send him your livers. Just don’t send him to bed without dinner…

EUGENE TOOMS likes work thats forward thinking but never dull, genre-inflected without being genre bound. He likes surrealism, new horror, SF, New Weird, Old Weird, Weird Weird, the Lovecraftian, the Borgesian, the Kafkaesque. He likes Donald Barthelme. He likes Wisconsin Death Trip a lot. He likes Joseph Cornell.

EUGENE TOOMS wants to read the stuff you’ve been keeping under lock and key, the stuff you’ve been hiding from the light because they’ll lock you away if they get their grubby hands and eyes on it. He wont judge, promise.

FICTION: EUGENE TOOMS will accept work any size: short, long, tall, wide. Please send as a .doc or .docx file type, as he finds these more digestible.

POETRY: Send as many poems as you want. Send all the poems! Just don’t send: poems about the changing seasons, poems about the weathered hands of mothers or grandmothers, poems about children playing in parks who are not later devoured by wolf-like monsters, poems about the small pleasures of domestic life. These EUGENE will turn into papier mâché. Please send all poems in a single .doc or .docx document.

ESSAYS: EUGENE TOOMS wants to publish a few essays, but they should be somewhat in the sphere of the magazine’s preferred subject mater (e.g. “yes” to an essay about Voodoo stores after Katrina; “no” to an essay about fixing your car with your dad; use your best judgement). Also, EUGENE TOOMS vastly prefers essays that have some element of formal daring to them. Send essays of any length as a .doc or .docx.

ART: EUGENE TOOMS needs art! As with the essays, make sure your art suits the overall aesthetic of the magazine. EUGENE especially likes collage based art, but he’s into everything. Send as a high resolution JPEG.

At this time, EUGENE TOOMS can only pay in free issues and subscriptions, but he really hopes to change that down the road.

Since this a submission call for the first issue, it’s a little tough to say at this point how long it will be before the magazine arrives, but expect to see it in the next six months

Direct any questions to underwood.reed@gmail.com.