LITTLE ENGINES is a micro-distributed literary arts magazine.
The print version is free.
I’m Adam, the editor & publisher.
You can email me: av@littleengines.pub
The art director, production manager, and palette-picker covering for my colorblind ass is Marianna Fierro.
A paid subscription helps keep the print free and puts money in the hands of writers & artists. Paid subscribers get full access the archives, the comments, and additional “stuff” at the end of many publications. Thank you for considering.
SUBMISSIONS:
Always open for your stories, essays, poems, reviews, interviews, profiles, photos, and comics. Further, I’m hunting for a columnist, and I’m serialized-novel curious.
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.
Columnists, please include a pitch and sample column.
Serializers, please include a pitch and sample chapters.
Please send your submission as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf file when possible. Please save the file under your first and last name, and include your name and email address in the document. If you are sending multiple pieces include them in one document when possible.
Please send your work to: submit@littleengines.pub
Little Engines does not consider previously published work.
HISTORY:
Little Engines began publishing in 2001 with 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—19 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. I don’t know exactly what I’m raging against this time. Plenty of things, I suppose. 🖤AV
A paid subscription helps keep the print free and puts money in the hands of writers & artists. Paid subscribers get full access the archives, the comments, and additional “stuff” at the end of many publications. Thank you for considering.
