Friends of Red Fez!

Beat the Dust

This website exists to: get new writing out into the world; support creativity and innovation in literature; share what's going down in the underground lit scene; entertain people through the power of words; celebrate the work of other creatives out there in the world doing inspiring things.

Blue Lake Review

Not much is known about this review, but they linked to us and so we linked back. That's how the deals get done, that's how we roll. And hey, they've published some good people so check it out!

Bywords.ca

The web version of an Ottawa Poetry journal. Consistently publishes great works by past and present Ottawa writers, with several poems viewable online, updated monthly.

Clutching at Straws

Poetry of Unusually High Unusualness

decomP magazinE

decomP (ISSN: 1947-0436) is an online literary magazine that is updated monthly. We have been in existence since April 2004, and were originally called Decomposition Magazine. We publish prose, poetry, art, and solicited book reviews.

Epic Rites Press

Epic Rites Press has published eight full-length feature books, two chapbooks, seven magazines and fourteen limited edition broadsides – and they’re just getting warmed up! This small Canadian press publishes some of the most badass poets and writers out there.

Everyday Genius

Presented by Publishing Genius, Everyday Genius is a web journal updated M-F.

Exquisite Corpse

A Journal of Letters and Life - Archives

Feathertale

What?! Humour and literature...together again? Why...we haven't seen this since...since...since stodgy asterdemics and biznoids took over literature! Who would have thought there could be such diversity in humour? Everyone but the lit industry, of course, so enjoy it now while it lasts!

Full of Crow

Full of Crow is an independent online literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, flash, reviews, interviews, articles, art, photography, and more. Full of Crow publishes content on an ongoing basis.

Gloom Cupboard

Literature for the Common People

Guerilla Poetics Project

Literature has been annexed by businessmen and academics. It's a total lockdown on free art. But some groups, like the ULA and the Guerilla Poetics Project are striking back from the hills! The GPP consists of a bunch of talented, under-recognized poets from all over the place, striking at the very core of the empire with covert poetry broadsides. If you're interested in poetry, underground or independent publishing, or literary activism, check this group out.

Gutter Eloquence

Gutter Eloquence Magazine is a bi-monthly, online journal of free verse poetry. The intent of G.E.M. is to publish the best voices of the underground lit scene--and beyond.

JMWW

Don't let the obscure name and URL fool you! JMWW is a great site with book reviews, poetry, short stories, art and is even regularly updated! (In web time, at least.) It's almost like their trying to hide the good stuff from us...

Kill Poet

viva la poem

Laura Hird's Showcase

Archives. prose, poetry, reviews

Leopold McGinnis.com

Website of Red Fez founder Leopold McGinnis!

LitVision

This highly unpretentious, in-your-face litsite makes no bones about offering up literature from the underground. If anything, Lit Vision shows how staid, visionless and out of touch extablished lit mags and publishers are. Authors you've never heard of before writing works that put the industry to shame. This site makes Red Fez look bad, so you should go check it.

Mad Hatter's Review

Mad Hatters’ Review, a bi-annual online multimedia magazine staffed solely by mad hatters, welcomes writings that address psychosocial issues, the pollution of minds, hearts, bodies and nature. We also welcome purely aesthetic pieces, packed with surprising images and whimsical wordplays.

Mad Hatters' Review

Edgy and Enlightened Literature, Art and Music in the Age of Dementia

Muse Thing: The Calliope Nerve Weblog

Poetry, Short-Lit, Ideas, Bookish Explorations: Ink makes us beautiful.

Musea

Not a web-zine so much as a site completely devoted to everything that Corporate Art is not. Tom Hendricks, who runs the site, is a one man fighting machine (and band!) against the commercial pish-pash that dominates mainstream culture. Full of tough-but-fair reviews for independent works, quizes, protest letters and more. Always a fascinating and enlightening visit - don't let Tom fight it alone!

Mystery Island

Mystery Island Publications is an alternative publishing and "pop culture unlimited" entertainment venue. Your oasis for comics/pulps, poetry, and obituaries.

NEWPAGES.COM

News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.

Pank

fostering access to emerging and experimental poetry and prose, from its brightest and most promising writers, to its most adventurous readers, across a variety of delivery platforms.

The Beat

The aim of the site is to provide a showcase for new and exciting writers and artists. The site is now published on a rolling basis, so we will post any new work as and when we see fit (rather than on an issue basis that we began with).

The Guild of Outsider Writers

Outsider Writers Unite! Outsider and bizarro authors from across the globe are joining together in a Voltron of writing talent. Watch out world, the outsiders are coming to town!

Thieves Jargon

Thieves Jargon publishes on a monthly basis. Eight or so stories and poems every thirty days. Read. Digest. Read. Email the writers. Think about that thing you've got on the back-burner. Blast open the backs of our skulls. We exist in or amongst a glut. Thieves Jargon is melting the fat.

Underground Literary Alliance

A group of writers actively working to 'create a literary movement to overthrow the literary establishment and get access for real writers. The ULA is winning by way of focus and protest. We're causing a ruckus. We're naming names and confronting those who promote literary weakness.' If you believe that the literary world is dominated by hegemonic literary lords, you might want to check out this site, particularly its Monday Reports.

Whirligigzine

What's a whirligigzine? Why it's a magical place full of damn fine literature in both print and online versions, that's what!

Ygdrasil

This web publication has been online since before most of us even knew the Internet existed. Foregoing the overblown bells and whistles of modern web design Ygdrasil sticks to what it does best: Great poetry in a straight forward format. Updated every month, the quality of poetry in this publication is normally very high.

Zygote in my Coffee

Never had Zygote in your coffee? Isn't it about time? ZIMC is one of the oldest, best, most frequently updated, zany, cool, crazy alternative lit-zeens on the web! If you don't know this site you don't know nothing! Defunct for a short while, it is now BACK IN ACTION!