Little Engines is a micro-distributed literary arts magazine.
The print version is free.
Hats cost $30.
I’m Adam Voith, the editor & publisher.
You can email me: av@littleengines.pub.
Avery Gregurich is the first reader of your submissions.
A paid subscription is enormously helpful. Paid subscribers get access to the archives, the comments, and Little Extras at the end of many publications. Thank you for considering.
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.
Please send your work to: submit@littleengines.pub
Little Engines does not consider previously published work.
HISTORY:
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. 🖤AV
A paid subscription is enormously helpful. Paid subscribers get access to the archives, the comments, and Little Extras at the end of many publications. Thank you for considering.
