serious-lit is a newly established lit mag that's looking to publish some of the rawest, strangest, and most heartbreaking literature out there. If you've got a great story that you've just been dying to submit to a prestigious mag... then you better send it there. This rag is not for polished work. It is for serious work that's here to tell the truth.

Dmitriy Kogan will be your editor on this ride. As a proud MFA reject and failed stand-up comic, he's learned enough pain to write about it truthfully. His stories have been in Hobart, The Gorko Gazette, Farewell Transmission, and Some Words. He's currently in the early stages of a novel (or novella, who knows how long it'll be), but that's none of your business. He'll still take his sweet old time from writing his own work to read yours.

CONTENT WARNING: Some of these pieces are sick in the head.

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