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About the magazine

SORTES is an independent publishing platform and curatorial project founded in 2017 by a collective of writers and artists. Taking its name from the Latin sortes, referring to lots or divination, the project approaches publishing as a practice of chance and critical assembly. It operates without a fixed physical space, instead producing a series of themed print editions, online folios, and occasional public programs that bring together emerging and established voices. The core mission is to foster experimental writing and art that resists easy categorization, with a particular emphasis on cross-disciplinary work and texts that engage with the visual. Each edition is developed through an open call and a collaborative editorial process, resulting in carefully designed objects that prioritize materiality and reading as a durational experience.

Editorial focus

SORTES is an ongoing collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations. They have neither theme nor scene. Ten authors per issue and four issues per year, they publish both the sufficiently strange and insufficiently boring: swart stories, hoity poetry, oddball literary feats, beatnik travelogues, pulp, antibiography, experimental sentimentalism, and sideways photography. They also host readings, perform old time radio performances, and pull off other beloved gimmicks.

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Submitting your work

Reading periodJan 1 to Dec 31
Reading feeNo
PaymentNo payment
Response timeLess than 3 months
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsYes

SORTES accepts submissions only during announced reading periods, typically twice a year. Work should be previously unpublished and respond to the current theme, though unexpected interpretations are welcomed. They prioritize writing that engages with visual or material concerns, and artists' projects that use text as a medium. Submit via the online form with a brief cover letter, a bio, and a single PDF or DOCX file containing up to 10 pages of poetry or 3000 words of prose. Simultaneous submissions are accepted if notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Response times are usually 4–6 months; please do not query before then. They value clarity, originality, and a willingness to work with editors through revisions.

SORTES considers unsolicited submissions of poetry, prose, illustration, music, videos, and anything else you think may fit our format and feel—and very often material that doesn’t. Feel free to poke at us: we’d love to find a way to publish dance, sculpture, puzzles, and other unliterary modalities.

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