Based in San José, California, Midnight Chem is the brainchild of four former editors of Reed Magazine. During our time at Reed, our team selected and published two Pushcart Prize winners, received an official Commendation from the City of San José, and amassed several other literary awards and recognitions.

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Midnight Chem is committed to providing more equal footing for genre-bending and experimental works. Our approach to aesthetics is eclectic—we seek pieces ranging from pop to literary to nonconformist; we aim to avoid the banal. We seek to publish underrepresented artists and writers as well as more established voices. To spotlight the new, the unheard, the marginalized. Surprise us! Midnight Chem is a place for the indelible and unpredictable, the ambitious and effervescent.

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We accept art, poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and blends of those genres, including digital poetry, interactive fiction, comics, scripts, and more.