Infrarrealista Review — Creative Nonfiction

Overview
Infrarrealista Review positions itself as a venue for creative nonfiction that resists the generic. The editors explicitly solicit essays on polycules, cultural icons of the Rio Grande Valley, and the uncelebrated towns of Texas—material that is specific, situated, and often overlooked by national literary magazines. The call also invites work on internet culture and essays that braid the personal with the political, suggesting a curatorial interest in writing where the private and public spheres are not separable but mutually constitutive. The journal accepts micro essays as well as longer pieces, with a firm ceiling of 1,500 words. This constraint is not incidental: it favors compression, precision, and the kind of essay that earns its space. Submissions are read on a rolling basis, and accepted work is compensated at $50. A $5 fee is required to submit. The editors state plainly that work without a direct connection to Texas will be rejected, making regional specificity not a preference but a criterion. The curatorial vision is thus both narrow and deep: Texas as a lived geography, not a backdrop; the personal as always already political; the internet as a legitimate site of cultural inquiry. Writers who treat these subjects with formal intelligence and without apology are the intended audience.