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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nNotes from The Disappointed Housewife<\/a> editor Kevin Brennan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Disappointed Housewife is a literary journal for writers, and readers, who are seeking something different. We like the idiosyncratic, the iconoclastic, the offbeat, the hard-to-categorize. Out of the universe of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, we want to attract work that plays with form and presentation. Work that\u2019s not just outside the box but turns the box inside out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excerpt from Mission Statement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I took a long time debating whether to launch this literary journal. I wondered whether there\u2019s really a need for another online gazette of literature and image, when readers hardly have time to read their friends\u2019 Facebook pages much less an actual book now and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I got to thinking, there are an awful lot of writers out there, looking for places to share their work. And while blogs offer a kind of outlet for works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, they are generally personal, a lot like online diaries in many ways, and most of all they aren\u2019t curated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve also found, as a consumer of writing on the web, that I have a hard time finding much of the kind of material I\u2019m really interested in. After a lifetime of reading, I have a taste now for something different. Stories that are made differently, that play with form and presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publishing, as a business, tends to incentivize writers to produce what they think will sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet there is a place for \u201chigh risk\u201d writing, fresh, creative, experimental, idiosyncratic, idiomatic, iconoclastic writing. Writers should be allowed to have their quirks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I decided to forge ahead with this project, to see what comes in over the transom when writers are given the flexibility to \u201cthink different,\u201d as Apple used to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m afraid that many writers will be disappointed that The Disappointed Housewife declines their work. But it will only be because the editors envision another way the piece could be a better fit, a way that better conforms with the journal\u2019s proclivities. It\u2019s not you, it\u2019s us. Don\u2019t be discouraged. We might suggest some possibilities to you, or you can try again with something that you write with us in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just remember, this is the place to find writing (in all its manifestations) that you can\u2019t find anyplace else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Submission Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you, Guy Biederman<\/a>, for posting about The Disappointed Housewife on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0Guy\u2019s \u201cLanguage of Lies\u201d <\/a>posted in The Disappointed Housewife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meet Guy in [Zoom] person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n