Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought

Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought [1]

Basic Information

State:

New York

Website:

http://www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/azure-a-journal-of-literary-thought.html [2]

Country:

United States

Submission Guidelines:

http://www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/submissions.htm… [3]

Address:

104 Adelphi St

Address (line 2):

#422

City:

Brooklyn

Zip / Postal Code:

11205

Contact Information

Sakina

Fakhri & Diana McClure

Co-editors

Contact E-mail:

Sakina.LazuliLiterary@gmail.com [4]

Details

Formats:

Web

E-publication

Payment:

Contributor copies only

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Charges Reading Fee:

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

We love work that is linguistically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding of the reader. We want literary fiction that grows in complexity upon each visitation; we enjoy ornate, cerebral, and voluptuous prose executed with thematic intent. Writers we admire are Zadie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Tom Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Tom Stoppard, Vladimir Nabokov and James Baldwin.

Every piece published in AZURE appears alongside a customized black & white sketch that is devised and executed by our in-house illustrator.

We accept literary fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, screenplays, stageplays, fragments, meanderings, philosophy and poetry. We are not concerned with genre distinctions; we want only for it to be thoughtful, intelligent, and beautiful. All writers tend to develop a scrap heap of brilliant writing - sharp dialogue that has been cut in service of a plot, a philosophical tirade that can't quite be couched in a narrative, a stunning imagistic landscape of linguistic pyrotechnics that deserves an audience... literary beauty that cannot necessarily be expressed in more than bursts and fragments.

Issues per Year:

Year Founded:

2015

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

1% to 5%

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

4-5

Subgenres:

Experimental [5]

Feminist [6]

Fiction [7]

Flash Fiction [8]

Historical [9]

Literary Fiction [10]

Nonfiction [11]

Poetry [12]

Political [13]

Prose Poetry [14]

Serialized Fiction [15]