The Underland Review

☍ Normal Scheduling Has Been Interrupted

Mowgli was going to scribe a poem or a dramatic monologue. Or something equally (in)coherent.

But instead…

the glitch won.

The Underland Review: Issue One – This Zine Is a Lie is now live.

43 pages of soft monsters, glitch-lit poetry, haunted prose, cursed diagrams, and art that shouldn’t exist but does anyway. A digital archive stitched together with pocket lint, rage, and love.

☍ READ THE ZINE

Free to read, cursed to absorb. Share it with your coven, your nemesis, your local librarian.

☍ DOWNLOAD THE ZINE (Pay What You Want)

Keep a high-res PDF in your glitch archive. Every donation helps us print more, distribute wider, and one day pay the beautiful liars who make this possible.

☍ ORDER A PRINT COPY ($5.55 + your soul)

Hold the lie in your hands. Smell the ink. Feel the contradiction.

☍ Submissions for Issue Two Are Open

Deadline: August 10th, 2025

We’re seeking: poetry, prose, essays, visual art, sound pieces, spoken word, and other beautiful misfits. If it glitches, bleeds, howls, or doesn’t fit in polite company — we want it.

We accept text, image, and audio formats. MP3s, JPGs, PDFs, .docx, strange attachments — bring us your fragments. Collaborative works are welcome.

Email us at: riverandceliainunderland@gmail.com
Subject line: THIS IS A LIE – [Your Name]

Thank you for reading. Thank you for believing in beautiful contradictions.

We were never here.

— River & Celia
Curators of Lies, Underland Division

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The Underland Review

We are seeking:

  • → Poetry that twitches
  • → Microfiction that self-destructs
  • → Essays with fangs
  • → Visual art that shouldn’t exist
  • → Redacted files, haunted code, cursed diagrams, scanned receipts from imaginary revolutions

We do not care about your CV.
We do not require polished bios.
Previously published works? Sure.
We do not pay (yet — sorry, capitalism).
But we do offer love, weirdness, and a spotlight.

✴ Featured contributors will receive:

  • A digital copy of the zine
  • Features on our site and socials
  • An invite to our glitch-lit open mic (date tba)
  • The deep satisfaction of being canon in a lie

Deadline: August 10th, 2025 for Edition 2
Format: PDF or Word for text. JPG/PNG for art. Max 1 piece per person.
Email: riverandceliainunderland@gmail.com
Subject line: This submission is a lie – [Your Name]

We don’t tolerate bigotry, AI slush, or boring work.

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