Editor Interview: DOGZPLOT Flash Fiction

200 word riff-raff

DZANC
PUBLISHING GENIUS
STORYGLOSSIA
WIGLEAF
PANK
FEATHERPROOF
LIT N IMAGE
PRICK OF THE SPINDLE
WORD RIOT
ANOTHER SKY PRESS

FICTION
Sam Lipsyte, Davy Rothbart, Junot Diaz, Kyle Minor, Stefan Kiesbye, Suzanne Burns, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jayne Ann Phillips, Elizabeth Ellen, Lydia Copeland, Scott McClanahan, Sam Pink, xTx, Brandi Wells, Andrea Kneeland, Jeff Parker
POETRY
Uncle Walt, Peter Schwartz, John Berryman, Stephen Dunn, Robert Hershon, Daniel Bailey, William Carlos Williams, Scott Oliver, Mike Young, Donald Hall, Ezra Pound

Nothing. We are not trendsetters. We just keep bringing it and we hope people keep feeling us.

Don't try to second guess what you think we'll like. Always send your best writing, your best representation of yourself.

We're looking for a meaningful glimpse into a specific moment in time. Think small space, claustrophobia. Like we're being exposed to something intimate, literary voyeurism if that makes sense.

There isn't much to get wrong. All submissions are welcome. Multiple subs. Simultaneous subs. Send one story or a thousand stories. Just make sure they are 200 word or less. Yeah, that means you, you aren't special. Yes you are, we love you, but still. Keep it 200 words or less.

Everything we need to know we figure out when we read the story.

It's 200 words max, so we read them all the way through, several times, never less than three, and at least one of those times is out loud. If we're still on the fence after four or five reads we'll put on some headphones and let the music decide for us.

We may pick at it, trim here and there, squeeze it, make suggestions, but nothing drastic, and nothing without the author's consent. Except Cicily Janus. And yes Cicily, we're still sorry.

There is no typical day. Everything is so casual and sporadic. When we feel like reading submissions we do, when we don't we don't. We are teachers and writers ourselves, so we're trying our bestest.