What makes Unreal City any different from other literary journals?
Quality. Other journals are hideous. What Unreal City want to do is to provide an outlet for interesting and individual writing in an age when marketing imperatives, academic torpor, and workshop herd-mentality all combine to sand away individual characteristics, leaving only limp verbiage on trivial subjects. We try to select work that is good but is not the usual numb fare found in more standardized literary journals: ie, we dislike formless verbal meandering, self-centered confessional whining, trendy carnalities, ethnocentric egotism, political correctness and politically incorrect ravings. But — really superb style can rescue anything, so even there we may relent. Individuality of either substance or style, ideally both, is what catches our eye. That is what we hope to find, and bring to the public.
