Spout Magazine Spout Press

Spout Magazine sets the table for weird writers (self-identifying). Spout values a DIY-like determination to produce and share creative work; we wish to be a home for writing that demands attention.

Send us your experiments, your genre-benders, your formal disasters. We admire writing that arrives as a gut-punch, a freak accident. Letters as phenomena conjured from an extreme source. Punctuation as estranged pulp. Syntax as evidence of an untoward divine. While we seek work that disorients us, we also invite writing that’s straight-forward, that deliberately engages with convention. Since we’re committed to publishing work of different styles, we may not know if we’d like something until we see it.

Spout lives at the intersection of the interdisciplinary, previously publishing the written work of musicians, the printed poetry of spoken word artists, historians’ cultural criticism, community organizers’ personal essays, and doodled agitprop. We publish poetry, fiction, translation, and thought. Our “Thought” section includes any literary genre of nonfiction, including personal essays, cultural criticism, interdisciplinary yet artistic and playful reviews of books, music, theatre, film & TV, art exhibitions, and performance. We encourage hybrid pieces as well, so submit work to the genre that it most closely resembles.

We consider work from writers at all stages in their careers. We take pride in championing voices who have never been published before and of all backgrounds. We are based in Minneapolis, and make sure to publish work that reflects our local community, although we encourage and accept submissions from any and all locations.

Spout Press & Magazine seeks to publish writers of all backgrounds and highly encourages submissions from writers and artists who have been historically underrepresented in publishing, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, D/deaf and disabled, system-impacted, and working-class writers, as well as all writers regardless of age, education, citizenship, nationality, and publication history. Spout is committed to the resistance against state violence everywhere, from Minneapolis to Turtle Island to Palestine, and we strive to reflect that solidarity in the community of writers and artists we publish.