LITMAGS
Bourbon Penn
Bourbon Penn
is a US speculative fiction magazine available to read free online, or to purchase in ebook and paperback format, writes Gary Dalkin.
Editor Erik Secker and his team are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. They want genre or speculative stories, and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal. Above all though, they want character, saying, ‘for us, stories live and die by their characters’. They want fully drawn characters ‘who surprise us with their honesty, complexity, and contradictions’.