New Pop Lit seeks to fuse pop writing with the literary, creating a new hybrid. Our goal is to present not just literary work, but a total artistic experience.

CEO and EIC:
      Karl (King) Wenclas

Karl is former head of the Underground Literary Alliance. Currently he creates zeens and ebooks, latest being The Loud Boys.

ASSISTANT EDITOR AND STYLE CONSULTANT:
                              Kathleen M. Crane

Kathleen is a former fashion model and punk rock dj. She’s the author of Aloha From Detroit.

ADVISORY BOARD
Nick Gallup
Christopher Landrum
Tom Preisler
Tom Ray
Chrissi Sepe
Frank D. Walsh
Fred Wright

Contact us at newpoplit@gmail.com

Follow us at twitter @NewPopLit

EXPRESSIVE NOT TRANSGRESSIVE

The Mission of New Pop Lit

Our goal is nothing less than to upend today’s literary scene. To make American literature attention-grabbing. We seek to do this with ideas, emotion and art. With fiction and poetry that’s innovative, striking, human and real.

The world deserves better poems and stories!

We’re currently looking for more features for our main site (past ones listed at the “Top of the Pop” page). Such as:
       -stories of humanity and reality;
       -modernist stories emphasizing structure and conciseness, including multiple viewpoint tales;
       -or other stories that simply blow us away.

We always need short audio recitations for our Open Mic feature. Three minutes max recommended.

As well as short quirky-or-explosive humor/satire/review pieces for our Fast Pop Lit site.

ARE YOU SURE?

Submission Suggestions

We’re always extremely selective about fiction and poetry.

We look for reader-friendly stories with clarity, conciseness, form, and pace. Our mission is to merge “pop” and “literary”; entertainment and meaning. With that objective in mind, we’re looking for more experimentation in structure and viewpoint while remaining fun and readable. Energy compressed within tight spaces.

We place few limitations on genre. The story or poem itself is what’s most important.

No AI!! Generated, structured, edited or designed.

Right now we’re especially biased toward multiple-viewpoint short stories.

One proviso: we’re not into depravity.

If you have more questions as to what we’re about, read our site and check out our twitter account. Our aim is to be the best literary site on the planet. We believe in competition in all spheres, including this one.

We do no background checks on writers. We don’t care what your personal or political views are, or how you identify yourself. Not our concern. 

We’ll present your work in as attractive a manner as possible, and work to promote it.

We promote love, not hate.

WRITERS AS STARS

Where are writers who think of themselves as celebrities, the Scott Fitzgeralds or Ernest Hemingways, eager to be at the forefront of stylish times and glamorous happenings?

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Our role is to be enablers of writers. To choose the best work we can find and present that work in the best possible light.

Formatting Guidelines

Send in your work how you’d like it to appear in print– realizing it will need to fill a different-sized space. 

Single spacing in a simple font please, like Arial or Times New Roman. We accept .txt, .doc or Open Office text files. Text in the body of an email is fine too. No .pdf or .jpg files please. We also do not take hard copy submissions at this time, sorry.

(TIPS: Use the return key only to start a new paragraph. Avoid line breaks within paragraphs. Beware the tab key.)

Email submissions to newpoplit (at) gmail (dot) com, with “Submission” in the subject line.

We generally respond within a month. If you haven’t heard back from us within two months, please contact us. If the work is accepted or published elsewhere, please withdraw it.

When your work has been accepted, we will email you requesting a two-sentence biography, Twitter/Facebook handles and website link. (All are optional, but we can publicize your work better with this information.)

LEGAL STUFF

Thanks for considering us. We look forward to reading your stories, poems, and essays!

(Painting by Kathleen Marie Crane.)

New Pop Lit HQ Phone#: 1-734-280-8775.

Recipients of a 2021/22 Creator of Culture grant from CultureSource.