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Defunct is a celebration of what is sadly over, & what seriously should be over. We’re mourning. We’re gassed up. We’re functioning. defunct.site Brooklyn, NY Joined April 2010-
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Sad that you’ve already read through issue 12 three times and you need new material?? Fear not!! We have a brand spankin’ new review of Knob Lick Tower for you all by the lovely Kimberly Rambos!😎😎😎 defunct.site/reviews/kimber…
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At long last, the moment you’ve all been waiting for!!! Check out issue 12, in all of its glory: defunct.site So many amazing pieces of writing and we could not be prouder of this issue we created!! Thank you to all of our contributors!!!!🎉🥳🎊🍾🎈
Due to some technical difficulties, issue 12 has been able to be viewed online prior to the official launch—we are still putting the finishing touches on the issue so if you could, pretty please contain your excitement and wait until we officially launch to read the issue🥺🙏🏻
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Become a writer. Just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you, make it a character, send it on a self help journey or try to kill it, and call it a book.
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Hard at work prepping issue 12 for your reading pleasure😎
Check out the latest Defunct Review from our very own Constance Lieber!! Here Constance reviews Fort Meyers Beach, a township by Lee County, Florida! defunct.site/reviews/consta…
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I’m so lucky to be working on Issue 12 of Defunct Magazine with such a talented team. Here is some of their work!
Things have been pretty quiet for us lately, but don’t fret! As we’re putting the finishing touches on issue 12, we wanna take a moment to share some recent publications from some of our editors!
Nonfiction editor Oscar Fock’s (@spjutsven) article (in Swedish how COOL) “Reportage: På spåret av Europas T. rex” in Illustrerad Vetenskap illvet.se/forntiden/dino…
Poetry editor Ben Nardolilli’s short story “Some Helps and Accompaniments” in @acrossthemargin acrossthemargin.com/some-helps-and…
Things have been pretty quiet for us lately, but don’t fret! As we’re putting the finishing touches on issue 12, we wanna take a moment to share some recent publications from some of our editors!
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Whole lotta issue 12 acceptances sent out today👀
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Whole lotta issue 12 acceptances sent out today👀
We can’t wait either!!!🥳👏🏻👏🏻
i’m happy to say that i got an acceptance from @Defunctmag! can’t wait for everyone to read my latest piece!!! 🥳🤩🥰 #WritingCommmunity
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ISSUE "MYTHOS" IS NOW LIVE!!! 🥳 —A collection of short prose and poetry that plays with mythology as a beautiful, malleable clay, mixing fact with what we perceive and molding it into shapes of weird and sobering commentary...READ NOW! fullmoodmag.com/mythos
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