What is ContiguousLyt?

We are a new kind of literary journal with a unique model and a mission that is as much about fostering newer writers as it is about discovering them.

Our Model:

For each issue, we will feature work by an accomplished writer who will supply a prompt toward which all the submissions for the issue should be written.

For example, we might have published Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, and then the Bard himself might have given us the prompt “Write a piece, prose or poem, in which you praise something in a very unexpected way.” (Of course, we can’t ask Shakespeare for a prompt because he’s dead, and if anyone on our staff can speak to the dead, we’re not telling. They burn witches, you know.)

There will be a ten-week open submission period following the publication of each issue’s piece, interview, and prompt.

As a writer, you should find a way that the prompt speaks to you (or, if it doesn’t, hope the next one does) and work with it in mind. We aren’t looking for pieces that use the piece published as a model, but rather work creates new ways to deploy the craft element discussed in the prompt.

We will choose the 6-8 pieces that we think best create a varied discovery of the different sorts of work that can be generated from a shared idea. Work that isn’t the same as original piece but is, shall we say, contiguous to it.

We publish twice per volume, with one issue in the winter and one issue in the summer.

How to Submit:

Send submissions to: contiguouslyt+submissions@gmail.com.

Note: Submissions are open to everyone except faculty, staff, or students from UTC. If you are a former UTC student, please wait until 3 years after your graduation to send us work. We know, we know. But this is standard for university-sponsored literary journals.

Send other queries or questions to contiguouslyt@gmail.com.

Masthead:

Founding Editor: Sarah Einstein

Managing Editor: Jude Keef

Institutional Sponsor: UTC