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KROTCH

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KROTCH is our monthly 16-page samizdat-style zine of community-based (f)art — poetry, visual work, comics, photography, and general nonsense, read on a rolling basis. Send us the piece, not your résumé.

Look at it first

The best way to know what we like to publish in KROTCH is to visit the KROTCH explore page.

  • KROTCH issue 20, page 14
  • KROTCH issue 19, page 13
  • KROTCH issue 18, page 8
  • KROTCH issue 17, page 3
  • KROTCH issue 16, page 12
  • KROTCH issue 15, page 7
  • KROTCH issue 14, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 13, page 11
  • KROTCH issue 12, page 6
  • KROTCH issue 11, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 10, page 10
  • KROTCH issue 9, page 5
  • KROTCH issue 8, page 14
  • KROTCH issue 7, page 9
  • KROTCH issue 6, page 4
  • KROTCH issue 5, page 13
  • KROTCH issue 4, page 8
  • KROTCH issue 3, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 2, page 12
  • KROTCH issue 1, page 7
  • KROTCH issue 20, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 19, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 18, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 17, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 16, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 15, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 14, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 13, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 12, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 11, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 10, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 9, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 8, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 7, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 6, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 5, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 4, page 15
  • KROTCH issue 3, page 17
  • KROTCH issue 2, page 2
  • KROTCH issue 1, page 15

How it works

  1. A KROTCH poster: We want your bad writing
    01

    You send

    A text under 200 words, so it fits one A5 page. Bad writing welcome.

  2. Collaging at a table covered in cut paper
    02

    We collage

    Scissors, glue, the copy shop. All of your text may be used, or only parts of it.

  3. A finished KROTCH page, text collaged over a photograph
    03

    You approve

    We send the page back to you. Nothing runs until you like it.

  4. A pile of printed KROTCH issues
    04

    We print

    It goes in the next issue of KROTCH, 16 pages, on paper.

  5. The cover of KROTCH 11: a hand holding a bottle of Braník
    05

    Beer + copies

    We meet up, drink a beer, and hand you your two free copies.

What we publish

BAD writing, and we mean that as a compliment

We want the community poems, rants, raves, reviews, and stories that got rejected because an editor didn’t know what Žižkov was. KROTCH Mag is a rag by and for the neighbourhood. Our best advice: don’t try. Write with your eyes closed. Mispel everything on accident and then on purpose. Tell us about that time you got in the wrong taxi and you ended up at Babička’s house and shared marmalade and slivovice. Or how to make your own paint with ketchup and salt. Or about the worst concert you’ve ever seen and why it was the best. Drink a Braník metaphorically, physically, mentally. Recount the chronicles of Jan, Jenda, and Honza. Bad handwriting. Accidental poems. There are many places to send “good” and “nice” writing — this isn’t one.

We highly recommend combing through the KROTCH archives to get a gist of it — but send whatever you think feels right.

Under 200 words — it has to fit an A5 page

We ask for texts of less than 200 words, because a piece has to fit a single sheet of A5. If you have something longer, send it anyway — we’ll try our best to make it fit, but we can’t make any promises.

Why your name isn’t on the printed page

Contributors are listed as participating authors on our website, but we do not give author credit in the print edition.That’s deliberate — the purpose is to keep the magazine about the experience, not about the authors. That’s our thing.

Send us your text

KROTCH submissions are tied to your O:P account (your name is never published). Sign in or create an account to submit.

Submit to KROTCH

Every submission is made from your My Archive, and stays there with its status.

Missed Konnections

A Missed Konnections page from KROTCH issue 11

Saw someone on the tram, at the bar, at a reading? Leave them a line. Every issue prints a page of them. No names, no numbers, no account needed. Every line is anonymous. Read every one we have printed.

M is a man, W or F a woman, ? anyone. Who you are, then 4, then who you saw: M4W is a man looking for a woman.

Type a place: ours pop up, no Czech letters needed. Pick one to put your line on the globe, or just write your own.

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  • No names, no numbers, no links: say where and what, never who.
  • It stays anonymous. We keep no name, email or address with it, even if you are signed in.
  • All missed konnections go to our KROTCH editors to make sure no one's feelings get hurt. If it's weird enough, expect to see it in the latest print edition of the magazine.

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