LITTLE ENGINES
books & magazines
LITTLE ENGINES ISSUE TEN includes fiction from MYLES ZAVELO and ANDREW SIEGRIST, an essay from MIKE NAGEL, and father/son duo GIL and JUSTIN VERNON’s first published poems. The issue was designed by HADLEY HENDRIX and features original paintings by KAMI BAERGEN. Issue Ten will be available free online next week for a limited time with the exception of Gil’s poem and one of Justin’s poems. Those are only available in print.
Our first book is Archive: Selected Work, Issues One-Ten. This beautiful 334-page, full-color retrospective features select stories, essays, poems, and art from the magazine’s near-quarter century.
Archive includes work from HOLLY DAY, DAVID DRURY, SUSANNAH FELTS, BOB HICOK, ANDY JENKINS, WILL JOHNSON, DAMIEN JURADO, KARAN KAPOOR, LEXI KENT-MONNING, KEVIN MALONEY, FRAYN MASTERS, KEVIN MORBY, MIKE NAGEL, VIC NOGAY, EUN-HA PAEK, KYLE SEIBEL, GAURAA SHEKHAR, ANDREW SIEGRIST, LYNN STEGER STRONG, M.C. TAYLOR, ANGELA TOWNSEND, GIL VERNON, and JUSTIN VERNON.
PEOPLE:
Adam Voith
editor & publisher
av@littleengines.pub
Avery Gregurich
first reader
Nikita Klimov
Design
Hadley Hendrix
Typesetting & Design
SUBMISSIONS:
Always open for stories, essays, poems, reviews, interviews, profiles, photos, and comics.
Please keep stories and essays under 4000 words when possible.
Please keep reviews and interviews under 2000 words when possible.
Please send no more than 3 poems when possible.
Please send .doc, .docx, or .rtf files when possible. Please save the file under your first and last name. Please include your name and email address in the document when possible. Please include multiple pieces in one document when possible.
Little Engines does not consider previously published work.
HISTORY:
In March, 2025, Little Engines Issue Ten was released in print along with the first Little Engines book. Archive collects select stories, essays, poems, and art from the magazine’s near-quarter century and marks the start of Little Engines publishing books as well as magazines.
Little Engines started in 2001, publishing four perfect-bound print issues. Each included a carefree mix of fiction, comics, interviews, photos, essays, and more. The Stranger called Little Engines “remarkably satisfying” and Philadelphia Weekly said the magazine was “such a wonderful creation.”
People liked the magazine, and I loved putting it together, but while digging into what should have been Issue Five, my day job in music became all consuming. I set the magazine aside, temporarily. Seventeen years later, a few months into Covid with live music shut down, I started working on a re-launch.
Originally, I published Little Engines believing I was reacting against something. I was a punk, fresh out of a midwestern state college, moderately educated with an English degree, and ready to rage against a publishing industry I knew nothing about. I ran it the way I saw my friends running record labels: Do it yourself, make it up as you go.
Bringing the magazine back to life makes me feel like I did publishing then, and that’s a feeling I thought I’d forgotten. There have been several new print issues, more on the way, some sidecars—Little Engines Loosies—and a growing archive of work published online. I don’t know exactly what I’m raging against this time. Plenty of things, I suppose.
Best,
Adam Voith
