I am currently seeking submissions for the next issue of Mass Culture, due out sometime in mid-late July.
Any quality visual art or writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.) on the general subject of sex and/or death is welcome. The specific theme of Vol. 5 will be Middle America, which I'm defining here as the bland majority of the US that excludes liberal coastal cities, hip college towns, and the like, with an emphasis on suburbia and/or the Midwest. Note that this region has spawned any number of dreadful things, e.g. notorious serial killers, child abduction, school shootings, and so forth. Think along the lines of middle-aged married men seeking furtive blowjobs in cruising parks and truckstop restrooms, stalkers peeping on elderly widows in the bushes at night prior to their home invasion, bored and sexually-frustrated teenagers chugging Robitussin and plotting firearm mayhem, etc.
You need not have lived in or traveled through that region in order to contribute--for instance, in Vol. 4 I included a story set in Weimar Berlin despite the fact that I have never (yet) left the continental US or time-traveled--but seeing as I'm the editor and I did grow up in the Midwest, I'll be able to tell if you're just completely bullshitting. (Note that the photo above was taken circa 2001 on the corner where I used to wait for the schoolbus.)
Further guidelines:
-Writing: Try to keep it at 1,000 words or less due to spacing issues. DOC, TXT, or RTF format (or just copy and paste into the body of an email).
-Art: Mass Culture is designed at 7.5" x 5" with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch, so do keep that in mind if you're thinking of submitting a full-page spread (or more). B&W, greyscale, and color are all welcome. Format: JPEG or PSD.
Submit to lcvonhessen@gmail.com. The deadline is the 8th of July.
