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Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Goodbye from all of us at DM: www.drunkmonkeys.us/goodbye-from... 052
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We will have four more issues: May, July, September, November. Stay tuned for all that jazz! 060
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Meanwhile... here's our latest Logcast open.spotify.com/episode/106H...open.spotify.comEpisode 35: I Know Catherine, the Log LadyDrunk Monkeys Logcasting: A Twin Peaks Podcast · Episode 020
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Apply for the NEA Win it Donate the money to trans charities Tell this administration to fuck off 030
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm trying not to add to the email onslaught, so contacting me through social media will be the best way to do that. (39/41) 000
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025We'll talk soon. If you need to contact me for any reason, please do so on Instagram or through BlueSky. We will be deleting our Twitter account shortly, and Facebook will probably go soon too. (38/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Who knows what's happening behind closed doors. Certainly not me. But if you were patient, and understanding, I really want to thank you for that. That means a lot to me. More than you'll ever know. (37/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I've had pieces that were accepted at places that never came to fruition. I edited a whole issue of a different literary journal as a guest editor and that never went to print either! Who knows what happens in the Indie literary world. (36/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I want to thank all of our submitters for their patience and their understanding. And I want to say, if you haven't been understanding about it, if you've been kind of pissed off about it, I don't blame you! (35/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025There have been many moments in the last few years where I didn't think I was going to make it to the next year. So I'm not going to pretend like everything is better. We'll see, is what I'm trying to say. We'll see. (34/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025After that, who knows. 2025 is already so bleak that the thought of making it to 2026 is unfathomable to me at the moment. I'm not saying that to be dramatic; it's the god's honest truth. (33/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Once we figure all that out, then we'll talk about opening for new submissions for the future issues of the year, including a Pop Culture issue. I refuse to shutter Drunk Monkeys without doing at least one more Pop Culture issue; it is our favorite, and I know it's a fan favorite (32/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Originally I had planned to just mass decline everything with an explanation and start from scratch, but we've gotten a few emails from submitters who still want to show up in an issue, so we're going to go ahead and honor that. (31/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If your submission is new, meaning we haven't read it yet, I'll let you do what you think is best. If it's still there by mid-February, I will have my staff make a decision on it and we will go from there. No harm, no foul. We're gonna start fresh. (30/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025But if you are holding on hope to show up in our journal, I will publish you. If your piece was in progress and you haven't withdrawn it, I will give you until mid-February to withdraw it. If you haven't withdrawn it by then, we will consider it for a future issue. (29/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I will contact you by mid-February to see if you still want it to run in an issue. If not, no big deal. I assume when I go in the emails, I'll see a lot of withdrawals, and that's totally cool. Your work is always your work and I want you to do what's best for it. (28/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025First thing is first: I'll have to do some housekeeping. I'll finish posting last May's features. Then, we'll tackle the queue. If you have an accepted piece that hasn't appeared in the journal yet... (27/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm not sure exactly when these issues will come out this year; I meant to write this and announce it earlier this month, but then Los Angeles caught on fire and I got a little distracted. But we will do four issues, including another pop culture issue. (26/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025So here's the plan. I've spoken to the editors, I've spoken to Matt, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna put out four more issues. We're gonna take it in four issue increments. (25/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Maybe I will find a little bit of joy again in the literary world. Not enough to ever go to AWP or something like that, but you know, enough to actually get my heart going again. (24/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025And who knows, maybe it won't be a final year. It's a nebulous thing. Maybe it'll be one of those "fake it till you make it", "smile through the pain", situations where I finally remember, I finally find again, what it was that made lit, made DM, so special to me. (23/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025We've been around since 2011, and I owe the journal and all of our readers and writers a final, wonderful year. (22/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I can't put out a good publication if I'm doubtful that I'll even survive through the month. But I also don't want to just up and disappear, shutter like so many other literary journals before us. (21/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025And so did Drunk Monkeys. Look, I don't want this to be a huge downer. I really don't. I miss running DM, I miss reading for Cherry Dress, but I find it all just too heavy a burden on my shoulders. (20/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025But I think it's important to stand on business, to have a strong moral and ethical code. And I just feel like I'm alone there. What I'm saying is it was a lot of things at once. And I just... couldn't do it anymore. So I stooped, suddenly and abruptly. (19/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm not interested in that kind of stuff, and that shouldn't be shocking to anyone who knows me. But the last year it really got to me. I couldn't laugh it off anymore. And I'm not some arbiter of moral righteousness. Jesus Christ no. (18/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Who warns or reminds people. It's too much on me, and ultimately no one seems to care, and that's too much for me. Throw in embracing AI, supporting the IDF, buddying up with transphobes just to get a publishing credit... no thanks, man. (17/41) 120
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025...people just champing at the bit to pub with them, desperate for a byline. Maybe everybody forgets quickly, or maybe all the new up-and-coming writers don't know anything about it. But I can't be the one who spreads that information anymore. (16/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Somewhere around posting the last Pop Culture issue, our most beloved issue of the year, I just found myself unable to do it anymore. I absolutely shut down completely. (11/41) 000
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025...(if you know anything about me as an EIC or as a person, you'll know that I relish in the dickhead yelling), I now found no joy in it. In fact, it felt like just another heavy obligation that I was failing at, and worse, that my heart wasn't in. (10/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I haven't opened that email in almost a year. I can't imagine what it looks like now. Where I used to find joy in reading submissions or, on occasion, laughing at some dickhead who was trying to start a fight with us for, say, not accepting his weird little rape fantasy... (9/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I found excitement in starting Cherry Dress, our sister chapbook press, but even that soured for me due to personal conflicts. It started to get to the point where even opening the Drunk Monkeys email would send me into a fit of panic. (8/41) 100
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025But over the last few years, things have been difficult for me. I keep falling into jags of major depressive episodes that are more recurring than not, that are recurring more and more and getting worse each time. (7/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It's been the better part of a decade, and I'm really proud of what Drunk Monkeys was, is, what it became. (6/41) 120
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025...(remember that all of your beloved indie lit rags are most likely run for no money, so that's all volunteer work), I still think that we put out quality work in every single issue. (5/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I believe we really chiseled it into our own little niche corner of the land of independent literary journals. We had a dedicated staff of editors, and, though we often fell behind due to real life things... (4/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I took over as editor-in-chief of Drunk Monkeys back in 2017, shortly after I moved to Southern California and founder Matt Guerrero stepped down to focus on other pursuits. It has been a singular joy of mine, something that I took a lot of pride in. (3/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm sure if you have something sitting accepted in our inbox, or in-progress, or never opened up at all, you're wondering, "What the fuck?" And I don't blame you. (2/41) 110
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 10/11/2024We are on hiatus until January due to Kolleen's extreme depression. Full statement soon but be well out there. 4131
Reposted by Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys LogcastingConcussed Deinonychus @shredosaurus.bsky.social · 23/06/2024For those going back to Elden Ring for the DLC: we @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social ran a poem about the rune farming bird by Paul Shovlin in our prior issue! www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2...drunkmonkeys.usPOETRY / Ode to the Mutant Chicken in Elden Ring / Paul Shovlin I Drunk Monkeys | Literature, Film, TelevisionWhat cruel hand plopped you down in a festering lake of blood to plod incessantly behind the dead tree, so near the cliff face? How does it feel to have a life worth 11k runes? 021
Reposted by Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys LogcastingHannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Here’s my most recent essay that I wrote while unemployed about Clerks, capitalism and the Kevin Smith cruise in my fave mag, @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social 🤓🚢 www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2...drunkmonkeys.usFILM / Clerks, Cruises, and Capitalism / Hannah Cohen I Drunk Monkeys | Literature, Film, TelevisionI’m not a die-hard Kevin Smith fan by any means, but when I had the opportunity to go on a cruise where not only Jay and Silent Bob themselves (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) would appear, but a whole c... 073
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 16/05/2024"Because it was the song. The song that was everywhere. The song whose lyrics somehow fit everything that was my life that May." Susan Hatters Friedman: www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2... 041
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 16/05/2024DM favorite Parisa Karami has some pop culture art for us: www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2... 020
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 16/05/2024"As we reflect on these revelations, we must consider the complexities of an individual's life journey and the impact of past trauma on their behavior." Jason Innocent: www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2... 010
Reposted by Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys LogcastingMicheleAlouf.bsky.social @michelealouf.bsky.social · 30/04/2024I'm so excited and honored to have my story, "The One That Got Away," published in the 2024 Pop Culture Issue of Drunk Monkeys! @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2...drunkmonkeys.usFICTION / The One That Got Away / Michele Alouf I Drunk Monkeys | Literature, Film, Television“I’d like to take a look at that book.” He wraps his hand around the nape of her neck, and they lock unblinking eyes like children in a staring contest. When she is the first to look away, Ted says,... 169
Reposted by Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys LogcastingSean Woodard @swoodard7326.bsky.social · 14/05/2024My latest book review of Erik Fuhrer’s poetry collection “Gellar Studies” at @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social. www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2...drunkmonkeys.usBOOK REVIEWS / Gellar Studies / Erik Fuhrer I Drunk Monkeys | Literature, Film, TelevisionIn Gellar Studies, Fuhrer uses Sarah Michelle Gellar and her character personas as a mirror to expose and interpret personal experience and questions of identity, belonging, and coming to terms with... 021
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 12/05/2024Our Twin Peaks 3.1 recap, "it's a world of truck drivers", is now live on whatever platform you prefer. Here's one of them: www.podbean.com/wlei/pb-pcin... 000
Drunk Monkeys Literary/Drunk Monkeys Logcasting @drunkmonkeysweb.bsky.social · 30/04/2024Kolleen linked to Travis Woods' BWDR page in her editor's letter. Read his Fight Club essay and you'll understand why: 010
