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Show us your claws (and scales, fur, wings, tails, etc.)

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Now all we need is a gi-fuckin’-normous bowl of cocktail sauce. (Also, major props if you know and love this movie.)

Stories and poems have been pouring in for our Legendary Creatures issue, which is great. Keep ’em coming! Check out the full guidelines and submit.

We would love to see more submissions featuring ANIMALS rather than human or human-like beings. We’d also like to see more contemporary and local creatures of legend—a story about the Mutant Rat Monsters that live in your hometown garbage dump, or a poem about a giant squid who falls in love with a pirate. Also, we’re crazy about haiku! Especially when they follow Michael Dylan Welch’s list of tips for writing haiku from Haiku World (although you can substitute imagination for personal experience in this case).

Also, JDP’s founder and our friend Eirik still needs those lungs. Please help if you can, and thanks so much to those of you who are already spreading the word and/or making a contribution.

Submissions Are Open for Legendary Creatures Issue

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Mess with the cockatrice, and your ass is granite.

Mess with the cockatrice, and your ass is granite.

For this one, we are looking for fiction AND poetry. In order to be considered, your submission must feature a legendary creature, such as a mythical beast or a figure from cryptozoology—including the Jersey Devil, naturally, but not limited to him. Dinosaurs and other animals confined to past geological eras are also fair game, because the only place they currently exist as living beings is in our collective imagination. (Which totally bums us out if we think about it for too long. Cheer us up by writing something incredible and sending it to us.)

Short stories: Submit one story of up to 5000 words (this is a bit longer than our regular monthly magazine limit, which is still 4200 words).

Flash fiction: Submit one to three stories of up to 1000 words each in a single document.

Poetry: Submit up to a total of 100 lines of poetry in a single document. This can be one long poem or multiple short poems. We welcome formal verse and skillfully crafted free verse. If prose poetry is your thing, please submit it as flash fiction, and keep in mind that we are wary of huge blocks of text with no white space.

No reprints. Simultaneous submissions are fine; just withdraw your work if another magazine snatches it up first. (And if that magazine finds a bag of flaming chupacabra turds on its front porch the next morning, don’t look at us.) Include a brief third-person bio with your submission.

Deadline: June 1, 2014

We accept hard-copy submissions delivered by dragons. If your dragon is unreliable, you may use Submittable.

P. S. We are still open for regular fiction submissions. (They have their own guidelines.)

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

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Nailed it.

Answer #1: Places! Answer #2: Here!

Unsurprisingly, writers who choose to associate themselves with JDP often go on to perform additional death-defying feats of creative dexterity. We recently highlighted the literary accomplishments of Danger_Slater and our production editor, Samuel Snoek-Brown, and we thought this might be a good time to update you on what a few of our other favorite people have been up to.

Carl Fuerst, whose “The New Mercury Ghost Dancers” appeared in Issue 10, has recently launched a journal of bizarre audio fiction called The Break Room Stories, which is a great way to experience odd little tales with someone else’s voice doing all the work for you. Check out his submission guidelines if you think you might have a story you want him to consider.

“Floating in Jagermeister,” one of the two amazing poems Amanda Chiado contributed to our Poetry Issue, will be reprinted in the forthcoming Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books anthology from Minor Arcana Press. (We nominated her other poem, “The Birth of Houdini,” for a Pushcart Prize.)

If you’ve been looking for something special for the Stephen King fan in your life who also appreciates fine needlework, you will definitely want to check out yt sumner’s pop-culture-craft Etsy shop, Stitch You Up. (She wrote another of this year’s Pushcart nominees, “Bazaar,” as well as “The Last Bird,” “Hole in the Garden,” and “Big Girl.”) We’re only sorry we weren’t the ones who bought this so-terrifying-we-just-peed-a-little Pennywise. And it looks like she takes custom order requests, too, so this could be the year your dream of a cross-stitched billy-bumbler becomes a reality.

Finally, our illustrious founder Eirik Gumeny’s hilarious “Gnome-pocalyspe” is included in the recently released Tall Tales with Short Cocks, Vol. 4, from Rooster Republic Press. And if you’re going to be tootling around Albuquerque in your car (or mobile meth lab) any time soon, you won’t want to miss his recently posted Breaking Bad Self-Guided Driving Tour, featuring twenty-one locations from the show in one conveniently downloadable .pdf.

By the way, if you’re reading this and thinking, why didn’t they mention my recent [insert accomplishment or venture here] in this post?, it’s probably because we didn’t know about it. So tell us! Shoot us an email or brag to us about it on the Twitters; we promise we’ll be proud of you. And maybe a little jealous. But mostly proud.