Historical Aside:

Some time ago, brave men of vision decided literature could be funny. Untoward Magazine knows not when or where this decision took place, but glad we are that it did, because today fiction is all the better for it. Untoward Magazine thus exists to perpetuate humor in literature and so forth, with stories reflective in some way of the fact that it is not an ancillary element of high-minded writing but an essential element. Herman Melville would be rolling in his turgid but also really very complexly amusing, and to that extent misunderstood / under-appreciated, grave if we were to suggest otherwise.

Untoward, The Magazine:

Who we are:

Matt Rowan, Editor-in-Chief

Jon Mau, Editor-in-Chief’s assistant

Mason Johnson, assistant to the Editor-in-Chief’s assistant

Sheri Mau, Resident Illustrator

M.E. McMullen, Columnist / Frequent Contributor

Ian Richard Jones, Staff Interviewer

Jamie Ferguson, Resident Malcontent Emeritus

For your consideration:

Untoward is at the present time a website updated monthly with two new Featured Fictions. Our shorter fictions, however, will be updated with greater frequency, possibly with as much frequency as multiple new works each week. We will play the preceding by ear, see how it goes and so forth. Should be interesting.

Where we’re calling from:

As for location, well, where aren’t we located? That’d be pretty much everywhere outside of ChicagoLand. Which is to say Chicago (and the greater Chicago metropolitan area) is our home base of operations.

While we’re not strictly interested in Chicago fiction, we’re big fans of it — and you who are Chicago writers won’t necessarily get preferential treatment, but know that we feel a relative kinship there, to this particular municipality and all who call it home or once did. Take Nelson Algren and Mike Royko, for example, whose ghosts leave us feeling cheery and truculent all at once.