Strange Hymnal is a literary magazine of mystery, ritual, and obsession. A biome of writing and art that worships the strange and unusual. An investigation of liminal spaces, the ineffable, the profane, the god that lives inside the car wash. A made religion, consumed by possibility, the duality of self, the tension between fear and curiosity, the seen and unseen.
Email us at editor (at) strangehymnal (dot) com. Submit up to 5 pieces as a single .doc, .docx or PDF. 5,000-word limit. We accept art, hybrid work, poetry, essays, short stories, translations of the dead.
We’re especially interested in seeing work from BIPOC writers and artists, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, neurodiverse and disabled creators, folks from rural places, makers both emerging and late-career, and folks who make hard-to-categorize art: poems in a series, hybrid writing, mixed-media art, art with digital elements, so on and on.
We like:
- Unreliable narrators
- Irreverence
- Gray ideas of reality
- Nonhuman entanglements
- Subversive formal poetry
- Narrative poetry
- Mystery + the inaccessible
- The awareness of people as characters
- Essays that ask more than they answer
- Things made for the joy of making
- The place where language falls away
