Re•mediate Lit Mag

Thank you SO much for submitting to the new issue of Re•mediate! This is us signing off to go look at your last submissions and make decisions, so keep an eye on your inbox! our turnaround from acceptance to publication is less than 2 weeks!

Submissions close after only two days! Every issue so far, a choice between two really good pieces has come down to whether the process notes included with the works are helpful or underdeveloped. Here's tips to help you write a process note that doesn't just comply with submission guidelines!

I read every submission, reply to every one by hand, and just want to say thank you for submitting, for reading, and for reacting. Hope to meet you at a future issue launch reading!

every other issue I do a little intro for our new followers! I'm @pdedgar30.bsky.social ; I edit re•mediate and bring on guest editors every so often. I started the lit mag right as I was starting my PhD, and I describe my work with this journal now as an experiment in research-creation!

our time is running out! one week before our last day to submit. DM us if you have a question on about your work or about Re•mediate !

A big part of the curation process for me (P.D.) is balancing creative work as is with the process note that will accompany it. I don't really care for work that's entirely AI-Generated if the writer who submitted it can't engage well with the "How?" and "Why?" questions we all are asking!

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We regularly take a both-and stance towards AI+, and we invite our readers to be critical in their art making, and artful in critique.

Time runs short for submissions to Issue•5 of re•mediate! It's been a while, and since we're just running a general submission call right now, we wanted to return to the root mission of this mag, which has only been slightly reworded since we first wrote it in 2024!

re•mediate lit mag — letters to re•mediate A Home for CPU-Assisted Writing

Our Newsletter comes out today! Take a look at the new Letter to the Editor that has been published at remediatelitmag.xyz/letters, a guest post from Max, the "iterator-in-chief" of The Fathoms, a publication that AI-edits AI-exclusive writing. I've also provided my own reflections in an Ed. Note!

How do works in one medium express the same concept differently, or how do different technologies transform your expectations as a reader?

Though we publish individual works by individual authors (in collaboration at times with machines and software), we encourage readers of re•mediate to consider the ways that the messages and themes, the methods and aesthetic goals of the works in an issue (or between issues!) relate to one another.

Re•mediate's excited to promote work in languages and places outside of North America, starting with the Lit e Lat anthologies! Akin to the ELCs, Lit e Lat pays special attention to works by Latinx writers in the Americas and Europe in languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Zapotec, and Quechua etc.!

In our last newsletter, we dropped a few stats that we illustrate here! We're really proud of how the interest in submitting to re•mediate and in reading our work has increased over the past year, and while "growth" is not the goal of this magazine, it's one of a few litmus tests we have !

Our new newsletter is out! visit it at remediatelitmag.substack.com!

Can you believe submissions close so soon? You've got one month left to submit to re•mediate! (and also to the Electronic Literature Conference, which closes one day before we close!) We've already started looking at some of the pieces you've sent us and are so stoked :))))

After a short social media break, we're back to preparing Issue•5, prompting submissions, providing reading recommendations, and receiving letters to the editor. Keep an eye out for a double-issue newsletter from us soon!

Happy 2026!!
If you're looking for submission Inspo, give AI Literary Review a read. It officially closed submissions and publications in December, but it's going to live on in our memory as an example of what really cool work was possible in these early years of the post-Chat era.

Did you know our Submissions queue opened December 1? We welcome new work for an un-themed issue to be published March 2026. Consider sending us your work today! Each one will be carefully considered by this human (@pdedgar30.bsky.social), with guaranteed decisions between Mar. 1 & 15.

on an "X" "Y" axis, the titles from this issue of remediate are spread out between "Machines Witness Us" and "We Witness [by] Machine", and between "Machine dependent Media" and "Machine Dependent Premises".

For many of our issues, we've tried to speculatively graph out a plane or field that the works we've published in the issue exists on. We curate our complete issues with more than these in mind, but it's a good thought experiment to wonder about the spread of each issue. What do you think?

Did you know that the 5th Electronic Literature Collection is open for submissions? Take a look at their full guidelines at collection.eliterature.org/5!

The whole issue is out, and we want to send one more hearty "THANK YOU" to all our contributors! Included here is a photo captured during our reading on the day of the launch, which was a joy to share together. It's one thing to curate the work, another to hear them all aloud from their authors!

1 last work included in Issue4 features the work we published as our first Letter to the Editor in September, "This Poem Opposes Genocide". Not only is the work a poem in its own right, but you may run its code to generate a letter to your personal congressperson to oppose the genocide in Gaza.

I’m so thrilled to have this work published in @remediatelitmag.bsky.social !

Closing out [MachineWitness] is an ambitious code-animation by Prof. @leoflores.bsky.social, "Tiny Protests: No Kings." The 3-minute animation cycles through movements of emoji as they assemble, interact, and react to events on-screen. Visit remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4 to view the entire sequence!

Parham Ghalamdar's Zine is a remediation of an experimental short film that has shown, won, + semifinaled at a variety of festivals. Ghalamdar's work interrogates the image itself as a supposed source of power in our current political moment, asking what happens to the picture in the face of fire.

re•mediate lit mag — Issue4 A Home for CPU-Assisted Writing

First year being included on the FISH List of Lively Literary Magazines! Check out our new issue remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4

This incredible interface invites you to query multiple comparative translations of lines of poetry in an order + language of your choice. @yalla_halim brings computational writing, machine translation, + Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus' poem "Perambulation in Exile" to your fingertips in [MachineWitness].

In this great Morse piece, D'mani Thomas writes a will and encrypts it in light, in a language spoken over wire by electricity or over air by patterned sound. We hope you'll visit Issue•4 and decode the full work!

Our long fiction piece in this issue, "Playground Vitriol," takes place entirely within a Signal chat. The characters, known only by aliases, use the machine to try to conceal themselves + try to expose + punish others. As texts fly between the users in three acts, fear + power hold hands until…