IT’S ALIVE (Pending content)

It’s alive: The Cinnamon Bun (you can call us The Bun) is a magazine about… well, pretty much anything we want. This is a publication solely dedicated to what interests us (us, the editors), or what could interest us. From you. Writers, artists, humans. It’s about the DIY scene and about punk music. It’s about books, particularly foreign literature, poetry, and science fiction. It’s about artists and art. It’s about feminism and politics. It’s about vegetarian and vegan cooking. This can include everything from reasonably light-hearted satire (of the sort that you might have read on The Toast RIP), to the very serious.

It’s nebulous and maybe we don’t have a clear direction, maybe we don’t know where this is going, maybe this train is off the rails or just stuck in the mud — but that’s ok. Hopefully we can just be a soft, small, sweet, warm thing that we hope you consume alongside your mid-morning coffee, wrapped up in a blanket on the sofa. Or maybe it’s something you’ll scoff down when you’re supposed to be doing something else. We don’t mind.

The Cinnamon Bun accepts and encourages submissions of basically anything under the creative banner. The Bun is for your consumption, but it’s also about your participation. I’m tempted to make some sort of forced metaphor about dough and spices, but I think the bun metaphors are going to get old very quick. And while the magazine is informal, it’s also serious.

On that note, this is the kind of thing we would like.

• Personal essays
• General non-fiction essays (specifically about the intersection of pop culture and social issues, including feminism and gender)
• Reviews (although we’d prefer less of a “review” but more of something like the above)
• Visual art in any medium
• Recipes
• Poetry or fiction
• Explanatory pieces on some matter of culture or a specific scene, with the aim of widening accessibility (e.g. a “where to begin” essay on, say, feminist 70s science fiction or queer theory)
• Nothing any longer than 5000 words

As a guide for style, it’s again quite hard to put down, but you can go to websites such as Electric Literature, The Toast, some of the personal essays over at LitHub as well as the style (though not necessarily the content) of websites such as vox.com. But to summarise, we want serious but informal. And we also would like the writing to be generally accessible, though that doesn’t mean necessarily simple or uncritical.

Please send any submissions or pitches to cinnamonbunmag@gmail.com as either a word document or google doc.

For the mean time, we’ll be publishing odds and ends. Expect a (roughly) monthly cycle of content (we’re busy folks). And most of all we hope you like it.

Callum & Lydia