Magical Realism Market?

MikeAngel · Apr 10, 2006

I have several short stories that would most likely fit magical realism, but have no clue as to where I might submit them. It doesn't have to be a paying market, though I prefer that at this stage of my writing life. Either print or ezine would do. Anyone?

thank you in advance.

veinglory · Apr 10, 2006

By saying 'magical realism' do you mean that you want literary markets only? If not there are many fantasy markets that might be suitable. I suggest looking at some of the market lists like ralan.com

MikeAngel · Apr 11, 2006

veinglory said:
By saying 'magical realism' do you mean that you want literary markets only? If not there are many fantasy markets that might be suitable. I suggest looking at some of the market lists like ralan.com

Thanks V-glory, but I was looking for some personal recommendation from writers here. I can Google or list-read with the best of them. Nothing beats a testimonial from a peer. Magical realism may have many definitions, and there's a great list on a site I visited last week (I'll dig it up if you're interested), but yeah, literary mostly. I doubt that fantasy is the same thing, which may have goblins and witches and sorcerers and the like. Magical realism often has elements of colliding realities, or ambiguities within realism.

mnmamma · Apr 11, 2006

One Story publishes magical realism as long as it falls under the umbrella of serious literary writing, not to mention being a damn good story.

Check them out. In my opinion, they rock in all ways it is possible to rock.

kelly

Jay Tomio · Apr 22, 2006

Most fantasy I enjoy currently falls under the Magic Realism umbrella, or at least have a tang of it (Sean Stewart, Holly Phillips, Jeffrey Ford, Jeff Vandermeer, John Crowley among several dozen others).

If we are using a strict defintion, it's not magic realism unless speaking of South American, or South American inspired fantastic iction, in the mold of Borges (who was influenced by Kafka), Marquez etc. Magic realism has become something that anyone who doesn't want to call themselves fantasy writers claims, but there is no difference - there is plenty of fantasy that doesn't have familiar and overused tropes like Witches, Wizards, or set in medievil times That's a limited, and ultimately false defintion of fantasy, as anybody who keeps track of the Hugos, Nebulas, World Fanatsy Awards, etc know.

At any rate, I just announced and E-Zine that is spinning of my site, that pay $.05 cents a word, with a $55 minimum. I'm accepting all Fantasy short-fiction, whether magic realism, epic, high, sword/sorcery, slipstream, steampunk, dark - whatever. For details read here

Magical Realism Market?

MikeAngel

veinglory

volitare nequeo

MikeAngel

mnmamma

Jay Tomio