we are The AlarmistAre you? The Alarmist is a fresh, new, dark, funny and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually. It’s not about trying to prove how clever or well-read you are. We’re not the Paris Review. We want to buck the modern trend, and tickle and entertain with what we publish. “Plenty of variety, freedom, fun, irreverence, and ever-expanding talent… …Beautifully designed, with a strong graphic palette full of energy, it looks very nice, but is also filled with excellent and highly engaging written work.”

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what we want from you *Issue 2 out now! Click here to buy your copy* We're after work that has to be seen or read to be understood and appreciated. If you can explain your work quite easily to your mates at a pub, then it’s probably not for us. We want funny, we want dark, we want darkly funny, we want surreal, we want experimental, we want surreally experimental, we want maniacal, we want the absurd. We like writing: poems, prose, stories, snippets, plays, letters. Famous literary folk we like, although by no means an exhaustive list, include Kharms, Beckett, Barthelme, Gogol, Lu Xun, Poe, Thompson, Feneon, Blissett and Dick. We also like comics, clowns and jokers of many stripes. Failing all that, if it’s good, or if there’s a certain je ne sais quoi and it doesn’t use droll unnecessary French terms willy-nilly but is the sort of work to unashamedly use the term willy-nilly just because it has willy in it, or simply if we like it, we’ll publish it. Then there’s the art: this whole thing’s going to look good – very good. We like cartoons, doodles, scribbles, paintings. We like excessive colour, despite what we said about dark. Click here to purchase a copy of The Alarmist Click here to submit your work
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