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King Ludd’s Rag submissions are open for the next two weeks! Short stories 4,000 words and up.
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/malarkey-books/king-ludds-ragprint-submissions-2026
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Malarkey
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Our resolution is to process more than 1,000 direct orders through our website this year. This means we need to average 2.7 orders per day. We are currently averaging 2 orders per day so are naturally freaking out. Help us find peace!
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
https://malarkeybooks.com/store
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We have dropped the monthly price for book club to $10/month. If you’re already a subscriber there’s nothing you need to do; the new rate should go into effect automatically. If you’re not a subscriber the only thing you need to do is sign up. It’s just $10/month!
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Malarkey Book Club — Malarkey
https://malarkeybooks.com/malarkey-book-club
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Third sale of the year is a download of KLR No.6 for $0.50!
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King Ludd's No. 6 — Malarkey
PDF of KLR 6. Stories by Zachary Kocanda and Caroljean Gavin, as well as art by Stuart Buck and Holly Salvatore.
https://malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/king-ludds-no-6
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Poets, we’re planning on wrapping up selections this month but our poetry EPs project is open if you want to sneak in!
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/malarkey-books/poetry-eps
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Still there (westbound).
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Send us your long-ass stories!
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King Ludd’s Rag submissions are open for the next two weeks! Short stories 4,000 words and up.
oleada.io/publication/...
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/malarkey-books/king-ludds-ragprint-submissions-2026
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3 days ago
On this last day of 2025 you can take 25% off any order with code 2025 at checkout.
malarkeybooks.com/store
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
https://malarkeybooks.com/store
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The only countdown that matters.
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I had my first nonfiction publication this year in Bending Genres! I also received another Barnes & Noble gift card for Christmas this year, making this relevant again.
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Untitled (Night Moves)
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5 days ago
Get ready!
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3️⃣ days!
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Jeff Nichols
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San Francisco publication dissing Chicago, 1886
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Rural Indexing Project
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Moore Good Times Virginia, IL
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Still there.
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Printing and stapling two copies of every issue of King Ludd’s Rag today for some folks who ordered the Compleat Luddite. Kind of tedious, and time-consuming, but also fun to revisit the back issues.
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I have a story that’s set two days before Christmas but I forgot to share it yesterday.
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2022/03/13/s...
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Sunday Stories: “Listening Party”
Listening Party by Zachary Kocanda I only remember the exact day this happened because it was after the last Adlai the Last show at Lincoln Hall two days before Christmas in 2014. I had seen the ba…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2022/03/13/sunday-stories-listening-party/
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King Ludd’s Rag will be open for submissions (fiction 4,000 words and up) the first two weeks of January for our 2026 zines! You’ll be able to submit on the
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Oleada page:
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/malarkey-books
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Our books don’t fit neatly into any category, genre, or scene, but they fit just fine into your mailbox!
malarkeybooks.com/store
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Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
https://malarkeybooks.com/store
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Taylor Imel
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If you’re in Chicago Dec 23rd, come cozy up at this reading!
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General Readings Tickets | Free | 23 Dec @ Sleeping Village, Chicago | DICE
Main Bar - Free Event | 21+ Dedicated to the written word spoken, General Readings is as it needs to be. It contains with discretion: open mics, featured re...
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old roadside pics
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ok used car sign, hinckley, illinois, 1987
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Joey Hedger
22 days ago
The cool dudes at Third Person Limited asked me to talk about my recent piece in
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. Check it out. Loved talking writing with these guys.
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That’s right.
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Tonight! Doors 👉 6 Words 👉 6:30 Jazz 👉 9
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Lauren Bolger
26 days ago
ICYMI, The Barre Incidents is nominated for a Cummie, and voting is open through the end of December!! If you want to try and help me earn a gorgeous, colorful dick sculpture, this is your *one* chance.
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❄️ Test lineup for December! ❄️
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Honored that Test is included here! Chicago is lit. 🤓🎤✨
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John Chrostek
about 1 month ago
Really touched + honored to see BOXCUTTERS on Independent Book Review's "Best Books We Read in 2025" list! It's running up alongside some true bangers, so I can't recommend checking out the whole list enough. 🤘
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
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The Best Books We Read in 2025 - Independent Book Review
Publication dates don't matter. Read dates do. Here are Independent Book Review's picks for the best books we read in 2025.
https://independentbookreview.com/2025/12/03/the-best-books-we-read-in-2025/
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LJ Pemberton
about 1 month ago
i have a new piece in
@exactingclam.bsky.social
for their special dada issue it’s one of my favorite things i’ve written recently have a look and SUBSCRIBE to this fabulous publication as a gift to yourself this holiday season
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...
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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol
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The definitive career trajectory
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪
about 1 month ago
| Literary Feature | "The impulse to create as much noise as possible" // An Interview with Poet Adrian Sobol
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Miriam Gershow
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Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!! My gratitude is so deep this morning.
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
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Joey Hedger
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Just passed it myself
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Rural Indexing Project
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City building Norris City, IL
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Atwood Lunch Box Atwood, IN
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Enjoy our smoking lounge Winneconne, WI
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Everything seemed to line up perfectly in layout, but not quite. Last minute decision to redo the poetry analysis layout has expanded this issue from 28 pages to 32, making room now for an explainer on turning off AI in Gmail and a reprint of Shelly’s “The Masque of Anarchy.”
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John Chrostek
about 1 month ago
Malarkey’s running a sale! If you haven’t had a chance to read BOXCUTTERS, I’m deeply proud of the collection + the book and would love for you to give it a shot! BUT also, their book club is one of the best subscriptions out there. Malarkey books will always surprise you + carve singular paths
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Lauren Bolger
about 1 month ago
Heyyy come get The Barre Incidents for 15% off with the MALARKEY offer code! Still have a few really nice Bookmobile-printed copies and have a few fun things I can add that were part of the preorder package.
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There's a few copies of BACKMASK available for $13. Buy yourself or your loved ones a sapphic thriller for the holidays
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Suzy Eynon
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👀🌵🛸
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Justin Bryant
about 1 month ago
This a good deal and you should do it. Also, I am good and you like me.
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Malarkey
about 1 month ago
Today only 2026 book club is $40 off, and also today only we will send a free t-shirt with any order over $50, with the caveat that we’re down to 39 shirts. We will email to find out size/color preference.
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bookclub
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We’re turning lemons into steeply discounted books. Moving forward, we’ll resell returned copies for $13 flat, allowing us to recoup costs without counting returns against royalties.
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
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Returns! — Malarkey
Sometimes we get books sent back to us. Historically, this has always been very unpleasant because it means lost money, that we would count against an author’s royalties. We’re taking a different appr...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
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We struck oil with these two stories—King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is available now, featuring fiction from Jacob Stovall (“Awl”) and T. L. Xue (“Beautiful Paradiem”), plus another installment of Good Reads!
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
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From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bookclub
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King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 is now available. Edited by
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, this one features new fiction from Jacob Stovall and T.L. Xue.
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
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King Ludd's Rag No. 25 — Malarkey
The twenty-fifth issue of King Ludd’s Rag features stories by Jacob Stovall and T. L. Xue. The cover will print in black and white.
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/klr25
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I have fiction in here about a catastrophic date at a mall!
#MalarkeyForever
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We got two more heaters coming atcha. 😎
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King Ludd’s Rag No. 25 comes out on Friday. That’s five years of this thing!
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