THE MAGAZINE

Okay Donkey is a literary magazine that likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad. We especially enjoy the experimental, the surreal, the magical realist, and the genre-bending. Do you like slipstream? Cool! We like it too.

Some of our favorite poets are Amy Gerstler, Danez Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Brenda Shaughnessy, Alison Benis White, Jericho Brown, Claudia Rankine, James Tate, Dean Young, W.S. Merwin, Russell Edson, and Ilya Kaminsky.

Some of our favorite fiction writers are Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Ha Seong-nan, Bora Chung, Carmen Maria Machado, George Saunders, Brian Evenson, Shirley Jackson, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Mariana Enriquez, Miranda July, and Ben Loory.

For a greater sense of our tastes, click HERE for our Bookshop storefront sharing staff favorites, curated reading lists, and books by our contributors. A portion of all sales goes to supporting Okay Donkey.

THE ETHOS

Okay Donkey believes in anti-racist movements. We stand against bigotry and oppressive systems. We amplify underrepresented voices to the best of our ability.

AI POLICY

AI, LLM, however it’s marketed: if you use it to write your work, submit it elsewhere. We don’t want it.

CONTACT

Follow us on Instagram at @okaydonkeymag and Bluesky at @okaydonkeymag.com. Reach us by email at okaydonkeymag@gmail.com.

Former contributors can tell us about new books published and major awards won at okd.contributor.news@gmail.com. We’ll shout you out on socials and add your book to our Bookshop.org storefront. We also have a monthly newsletter with features on the writing life and updates on our community.