Website
Type Of Publisher
Online, Press
Genres Published
Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Flash Fiction, Visual Art
Year Established
2018
Address
Longmont, Colorado
Name
Nawal Nader-French
Title
EIC
Email
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Established in 2018, Inverted Syntax is an independently run art and literary magazine. We have been publishing annually in print and periodically online through the Fissured Tongue series since 2019. Beginning in 2024, Inverted Syntax magazine issues moved from a print format to our well-established online format of the Fissured Tongue Series. There will no longer be a print issue of the magazine. However, we are embarking on a new venture of publishing poetry books. With the help of Bookmobile for printing and Itasca Books for distribution services, Inverted Syntax will be publishing and debuting between 3-5 full-length poetry books beginning in the fall of 2026. Starting in 2024, we seek to identify up to five exceptional manuscripts for publication. Our editors are seeking work that risks everything. We favor the hybrid but welcome all writing. If it's well-crafted, uses language in daring ways, we want it. MISSION:
Human expression is never orderly. It is a space of disruption. To let ourselves express means to be vulnerable. It means to invert syntax so as to articulate the visceral. In 1862, Edouard Manet painted Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass). In 1863 it was rejected by the Paris Salon—the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, one of the art academies in Paris. Undeterred, Manet showed his work at another exhibit, Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects,” where it generated both positive and negative responses. What we love about this story is that Manet believed in the power of his work even when the Salon jury did not. He knew its value, and he wasn't going to let others decide whether it deserved to be seen. He knew that the establishment shouldn't have the final say. At Inverted Syntax, we feel similarly. We want to be writers Salon des Refusés. We believe that something is missing from the current literary and visual arts landscape— work that feels rogue, daring. Work that breaks the rules. Work that doesn't have any rules. We don’t want work that adheres to outdated definitions. We want experimental. We want hybrid. We want progressive. We want work that takes unorthodox approaches to form and aesthetics. We want work that rebels against the establishment and pushes us toward something we have yet to define— or perhaps something that resists definition altogether. We want memorable, haunting approaches to art and language that turn us inside out and convey novel insights into the human experience. We want it all.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
no
Fee Amount
$4 - $20
Author Payments
royalties, cash, copies
Contests
yes
Contest Guidelines
Distributors
Itasca
Online Press
