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About the journal

“Style is the dress of thoughts.” –Chesterfield

pLUNGElit.com was started in 2003 as a literary journal of fiction, short stories, poetry, and essays. The online journal is based in Boston, Massachusetts. The editors hope to bring it to print after finding a source of funding and printing services (and the time to edit a print publication).

In the historical tradition of small literary journals, we are dedicated to publishing the work of new writers, although not limited to it. We maintain that literary style is what interests readers, not plot lines or characters. Literary style along with verisimilitude is what enables the writer to establish a reader’s interest. In order to allow the reader some discovery over the course of the reading, a style must impart a sense of reality to the work.

Fiction by definition is not necessarily based on reality. We find that the best fiction appears to be based not on fact, but on true emotion, in other words emotion that a writer has actually experienced to some degree. It is true emotions which a reader finds in a piece of writing by way of an author’s diction, tone, dialogue, and setting: in essence, the elements of style.

pLUNGElit.com is currently seeking submissions.

We will consider performing Reviews of published works only if queried with a sample chapter or selection of your work via email. We do not publish pre-written reviews to market your manuscript.

To contact pLUNGElit.com, please email the Editors at plunge@plungelit.com

Thanks for reading.

We offer that anyone should submit their work, from those seeking literary agents, those who have and have not published, to those who organize creative circles; writers of poetry, essays, short stories, whether from Boston or New York City,Tokyo or Beijing, London or Helsinki, San Francisco or Chicago, creative writers, poets, magazine writers, essayists, copy editors, or hobbyists all are welcome to submit their best to plungelit.com!

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