Defunkt Magazine

A preview of what’s to come.

& Press × present a pre-festival reading + celebration. A chance to meet the writers, catch the work, and tap in before the weekend hits.

Featuring:
Eli Keith • Randall J. Tyrone • Sean Morrissey Carroll
Gerard Robledo • C. Prudence Arceneaux
Joshua Robbins • Daniel Peña

📍 Velvet Oak Tavern — Houston, TX
🗓 April 24, 2026
🚪 8 PM | 📖 8:30 PM

Friday night. Be there.

Mark your calendars folks, on January 26 we are officially OPENING submissions for Volume 15 of Defunkt Magazine! We want to see your prose, your poetry, your photos, and anything else that fits under our guidelines. Keep an eye out for more news soon and see you on the 26th!

It’s here! Everyone give a warm welcome to this months field noter, Nelle Yvon and her work “FIELD NOTES FROM A CULT”

Unnamed stick figure says FIELD NOTES are OPEN for SUBMISSIONS!!! They also want to let everyone know that they will close on 12/08 or whenever we reach 50 subs. So hurry on up and get the weirdest, most unnatural of your work in. We can’t wait to read it!

Our unnamed stick figure is here to tell you that Field Notes is opening for subs again on DECEMBER 3rd! So get those whacky poems about the pile of laundry in the corner of your room, the unnerving photos you took of a raccoon and squirrel playing chicken in the middle of the road, and everything in between ready. See you guys soon!

Grateful for this book and for for being such a gracious artists and share her time speaking with me about the collection! Head over to ALR to check out the full review.

It’s here! This months Field Note is brought to us by . Her work, “Things I Meant to Tell You”, is up on our website. Follow the link in our bio to read it TODAY! Remember, Field Notes are open for submissions EVERY MONTH so if you missed out this time don’t worry, we will be open again in December!

And we are CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who submitted this round and if you didn’t get a chance, don’t worry we will be open again in DECEMBER. We are already blown away by the submissions we are seeing, you guys rock! So, keep an eye out for more news and decisions on all things Field Notes, we’ll see you next month.

Field Note is now OPEN for submissions! Send in your whacky, your freaky, and your weird. From short stories, to poems, to photography, we want it all! Submissions are open now till Nov. 10 (or until subs reach 50, whichever comes first). We can’t wait to see all amazing things you send in. Follow the link in our bio to submit TODAY!

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