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Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought [1]

Basic Information
State: 
New York
Website: 
https://lazuliliterarygroup.com/azure-a-journal-of-literary-thought.html [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://lazuliliterarygroup.com/submissions.html [3]
Address: 
104 Adelphi Street
Address (line 2): 
#422
City: 
Brooklyn
Zip / Postal Code: 
11205
Contact Information
Sakina
Fakhri
Co-founder/Editor
Contact E-mail: 
sakina.lazuliliterary@gmail.com [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Digital
Print
Payment: 
Contributor copies only
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months

Azure publishes work that is linguistically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding of its reader. It seeks pieces that increase in complexity upon each visitation and exhibit a density worthy of scholarly or artistic study. Azure’s aesthetic tends towards ornate, cerebral, and voluptuous prose/poetry executed with thematic intent. Experimental, craft-driven works and pieces written in distinctly Victorian/modernist styles can be found within these pages.

We accept literary fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, screenplays, stageplays, fragments, meanderings, philosophy and poetry (but no AI-generated work!). 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: 
1 (monthly online; annual print volume)
Year Founded: 
2015
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
1% to 5%
Issue Price: 
$20
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
15-20
1,000 to 2,500
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]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/azure_a_journal_of_literary_thought

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/azure_a_journal_of_literary_thought [2] https://lazuliliterarygroup.com/azure-a-journal-of-literary-thought.html [3] https://lazuliliterarygroup.com/submissions.html [4] mailto:sakina.lazuliliterary@gmail.com [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/feminist [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/historical [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nonfiction [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/poetry [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/political [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [15] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/serialized_fiction