Submissions are now closed for Issue 7.

This time, we decided on an open theme. We asked for submissions that broached any topic and explored any theme, from strange otherworlds to odd, deformed versions of our own; from the creepily surreal to the downright bizarre. We wanted worlds and characters without limits. We asked to be shocked, amazed, excited and awed, and gave our contributors the freedom to take us places we never expected to go. Issue 7 will be released August 2010.

We're looking for angry voices, new voices, voices that want to toy with the reader and teach them something new and exciting. Take us dark places, dirty places, and show us things to make us giggle, gasp or gag.

All submissions must have a countercultural element. By this we mean an enagagement with, challenging of or subverting of popular cultures and ideologies. Many submissions lack this important point. Remember: we are 'The Anti-Pop Culture Journal'. If you want to know what that means, pick up a copy and see how our mission statement and our themes come together. Read the editorial introduction. Read the stories. Read the poems. Look at the art. Read the columns. Then ask yourself, 'Can I really imagine myself alongside these works?' If you can, then submissions should be sent, as always, to editor@polluto.com.

All contributors will receive one comp copy, and one story each issue will be selected as the editor's favourite, receiving payment at 4p/word (capped at £200). Payment to non-UK residents is by PayPal ONLY. We cannot send foreign bankers drafts or send foreign currency.

And as C. S. Lewis once muttered under his breath during a reading by Tolkien, 'Not another fucking elf.'