Guidelines

We’re looking for fiction, nonfiction and poetry that is founded on wit, humour, puns, absurdity and irony. Put away the sledgehammer, the cliches, the tired tropes and the nastiness.

What we won’t publish are:

• work that is gratuitously offensive. You know exactly what we mean, so don’t try us.
• jokes and/or comedy routines. This is a site dedicated to longer written humour.

Hard sells will include the list below, which will no doubt grow longer with experience:

• If you think excretion or genitalia or four-letter words are inherently funny, this is not the place for you.
• Current political satire, including fake news.
• Shaggy dog stories (unless they’re about shaggy dogs)
• Snarky diatribes

Here’s some writers that I find witty:

Oscar Wilde, Sue, Townsend, Douglas Adams, Roddy Doyle, Nora Ephron, James Thurber, John Clarke, Spike Milligan, and Garrison Keillor, to name but a few.

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