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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · 17d

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · 17d

We publish strange and wonderful artworks (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & translations + visual, video, audio, & other art) that are inspired by, respond to, and reinvent other artworks.

Submit by Oct 31 for a place in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒, 1947)

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 28

All art forms. All art re. art.

Get thee in on 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛 ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/submit/

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 23

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 23

Bidding farewell to issue 2.2 subs, we bid a cheeky hey there handsome stranger to issue 2.3 submissions.

We want artworks (any form) that reply to other works of art & culture, and we want them by October 31 at longconmag.com/submit/. You in, or what?

(🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝑒́𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠, 1937)

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 20

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 20

We want work that stuffs, pushes, or slices open the CNF envelope. So send us your consequential brushes with paintings, your entanglements in unsettling performances, your accounts of completely rearranging your life around an appreciation for artisan cheeses, etc., etc.!

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 20

REMINDER: we've opened an 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂-𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅! All creative nonfiction submitted by Aug 22 will be considered for issue 2.2: longconmag.com/submit/

What are we looking for? 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 (in some way) 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭.

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 16

We're still accepting creative nonfiction submissions for ISSUE 2.2 until Aug 22. For all other lit genres and art forms, our next submission deadline--for ISSUE 2.3--is Oct 31. SPOOKY.

Details, as always, are at longconmag.com/submit/

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excerpt from Louise Piper's short nonfiction "Resting Place," tidily tucked onto Tracey Emin’s self-portrait 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑡 𝐼𝑡 𝐴𝑙𝑙 (2000).

Follow Louise's wayfinding among Emin, Dali, Hopper, Monet, and Knight in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/lo...

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excerpt from Peter Richardson's poetic suite "Three Polaroids from Cormac McCarthy's Highway," in the style of the first edition cover of McCarthy's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 (2006).

Revisit 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 in a new light in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/pe...

long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 14

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's a mere 30ish hours until submissions close for ISSUE 2.2 of our lil' quarterly dedicated to art-replying-to-art!

Send us your painting, collage, photography, sculpture, & other visual art! Send us your CNF, fiction, and poetry! Your music, video art, weird sound art!

longconmag.com/submit/

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Excerpt from Michael Russell's 𝑌𝑢-𝐺𝑖-𝑂ℎ! 𝑉𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑁𝑆-inspired poem "isekai"—superimposed on cover art from the first DVD boxset of the series (2017).

Read Michael's agile, gutting poem in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/mi...

long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Excerpt from the artist's statement for Frank Forrestall's painting 𝑁𝑒𝑏𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑧𝑧𝑎𝑟 (2022), embedded in its titular inspiration, William Blake's 𝑁𝑒𝑏𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑧𝑧𝑎𝑟 (1795–1805).

See 𝑁𝑒𝑏𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑧𝑧𝑎𝑟 & the issue's cover art—Frank's 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠ℎ 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑎 (2022)—in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/fr...

long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excerpt from Nancy Yakimoski's "Poem (May 07, 2025)"—and from the recording of Kenneth Koch it replies to—nuzzled into a photograph of Kenneth Koch.

Read Nancy's expansive, intimate poem of observation in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/na...

long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excerpt from Dawn Macdonald's poem "Animal Snap," gently printed on the card game it interprets.

Read two of Dawn's poems, "Animal Snap" and "Robert Graves' 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑀𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛," in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/da...

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

Don't be weird: be weird WITH US!

We publish strange and wonderful artworks that are inspired by, respond to, and reinvent other artworks.

Submit by August 15 for a place in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Lola Liivat's 𝐾𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝐼, 1969)

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excerpt from Cathie Borrie's art book 𝑎 𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, which you can experience in text, photo, & video in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/ca...

Cathie's excerpt is embedded in Andrea Dezsö's cover illustration for Jack Zipes's ...𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑚 (2015).

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excerpt from Sydney Hutt's "In the past I tried to be Thoreau" and illustration by Sophia Thoreau from the first edition of Henry David Thoreau's 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛; 𝑜𝑟, 𝐴 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠 (1854).

Read Sydney's poem in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/sy...

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 8

The title (yes, just the title) of Noah David Farberman's script-framing short story—elegantly crammed into a season 9 promo image for the show about nothing. We trust you to draw the connection.

Read Noah's "An Argument..." in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/no...

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 8

Excerpt from the artist's statement for Carrie Matisse's song "Baby Robotic" and its music video—in the style of the cover of Kate Daniels's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑜𝑏𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠 (1988), their inspiration.

Listen to Carrie's song, and watch the music video, in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/ca...

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 8

"This piece began as a response to a road sign I saw while on vacation in Tobago. Depression Ahead, the sign said, which struck me as a warning that would have been helpful in my own life."

Read Rebecca Higgins's story "Signposts for Nora" in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/re...

long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

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