About Jokes Review
Jokes Review is a literary journal based in Northern California. We seek to promote writers and artists whose work just took a wrong turn and went ever-so-gracefully off the deep end. Jokes Review is released biannually online and occasionally in print. We also regularly publish essays on our online Journal and we publish a nonfiction book series, Fair-Minded Fraud and Forgery.
Things we like: outsider art, urban legends, rants, rogue journalism, humor, manifestos, subversive imaginations, bizarro fiction, low brow/high brow mixtures, street art, dangerous ideas, jokes.
Writers we like: Richard Brautigan, Ottessa Moshfegh, George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, Zadie Smith, Rabelais, Ishmael Reed, Alfred Jarry, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Laurence Sterne, Christopher Hitchens, Opal Whiteley, James Joyce, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Anton Wilson, John Waters, Joan Didion, Robert Coover, William Burroughs, JP Donleavy, Terry Southern.
Press:
Arts Calling Podcast: “Technology, writing of tomorrow, and Jokes Review”
The Writer Magazine: “Literary Spotlight: Jokes Review”
The Review Review: “A Place for the Offbeat; Review of Jokes Review”
Six Questions For: “Interview with Peter Clarke, Editor of Jokes Review”
Jokes Review Social
An occasional social event in Sacramento, California. Visit our Jokes Review Social page for more info.
Submission Info
Jokes Review encourages submissions of stories, poems, and art. Submissions are almost always open. For more details, see how to submit.
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Editor-in-Chief: Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke is a writer based in Sacramento, California. He's the author of the comic novel Politicians Are Superheroes (Pski's Porch Publishing, 2018) and the novella The Singularity Survival Guide (Logos Literature, 2019). His short fiction has appeared in over 50 publications, including 3AM Magazine, Curbside Splendor, and Hobart. He holds a BA in psychology and a law degree. See: petermclarke.com.
Fiction and Art Editor: Mark Dwyer
Mark Dwyer is an elementary school art educator in Sacramento, California. Both a former writing tutor and editor, he enjoys painting and fishing in his spare time. He holds a BA in English Literature from California State University, Sacramento. For more things, visit markndwyer.com.
Poetry Editor: Erica Stumpe
Erica considers herself a renaissance man in the field of minimum wage customer service work that no one else wants to do. She currently works at a plant nursery after earning her environmental science BA from the Evergreen State College, which was joked about in Futurama. She enjoys writing, strolling and rollerskating in her spare time.
Fiction and Poetry Editor: Lane Chasek
After contributing to several issues of Jokes Review and publishing a book with the Jokes imprint, Lane Chasek joined the staff in January 2021. He previously worked with acquisitions for Prairie Schooner and also helped start a literary magazine. Lane's stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Broke Bohemian, Journey, Laurus, Lincoln Underground, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Former Editors:
Matt Kramer - Nonfiction and Poetry Editor for issues 1 and 2.