Literary magazine · Colombia
El Malpensante
Colombian literary magazine. Founded 1996.
About El Malpensante
El Malpensante (Spanish: The Misthinker) is a Colombian literary magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, short stories, graphic art and poetry founded in 1996. Its founders were Andrés Hoyos Restrepo and Mario Jursich Durán. The name of the magazine was taken from a book of aphorisms written by Gesualdo Bufalino. Past contributors to the magazine include Mario Vargas Llosa, Germán Espinosa, Leila Guerriero, Juan Gabriel Vázquez, Margaret Atwood, Juan Villoro, and Samanta Schweblin.
From the Wikipedia article “El Malpensante”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Before you submit
If El Malpensante is currently open to submissions, its website will list reading periods, accepted genres, length limits and whether simultaneous submissions are allowed. Many magazines use an online submission manager and some charge a small reading fee.
Prepare a short, professional cover letter: the title and word count of your piece, a two-line bio and any relevant previous publications.
Sources & data
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