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Opium Magazine

1272 Page St.

San Francisco, CA 94117

Phone: (347) 229-2443

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-4 months Payment: none Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1556-8903 Founded: 2001 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity Cover price: $10 Average pages: 144 Sample price (postpaid): $10 Subscription: $18

Publisher’s description (150 words): Opium Magazine is a literary humor publication that packs its pages with a rich and varied selection of short fiction, super-short fiction, poetry, cartoons, odd games, and quirky art. Opium likes strange, surprising literature with a humorous edge, but wisely steers clear of rants, riffs, and goofy mental twaddles. High Hat said it best: "At the heart of it, Opium wants to have a giant party for everyone who loves fiction, breathes fiction, can't be without it, and the invitations come pre-printed with a fill-in-your-own-blank name."

Published biannually, and distributed nationwide (including Barnes & Noble), Opium has featured Etgar Keret, Diane Williams, Dennis Cooper, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Roy Kesey, Kim Chinquee, Tao Lin, Bruce Bauman, Jack Handey, and interviews with actor/playwright Wallace Shawn; Brazilian artist Vik Muniz; actor/musician Sue Jorge; and artist/Salvador Dali's mistress, Amanda Lear.

Emerging writers should be encouraged: Opium is fond of the slush pile.