Print Edition: Coming Soon!

We’re going to print, and we want you involved!

We’re currently taking submissions for the first ever print edition of the magazine! That’s right, we’re going to be releasing a special edition of WF? in full color heaven, chock full of pieces that are so fantastic, we had to save them for a really special occasion.

What can you expect from our first piece of glossy greatness? For starters, every single piece will be unique to the print edition, that is to say you won’t find it online anytime soon (at least until someone pirates it). And judging from what’s already being written for the first edition, they’re the best articles we’ve had yet.

Secondly, it’s an actual magazine, not a fanzine, not something that we ran off on a copier. A real, honest-to-goodness magazine with a barcode and all. Real important looking and classy-like.

Thirdly, it will be affordable. We can’t stress this enough.

Seriously, has anyone bought a copy of the other paranormal magazines lately? They’re almost ten fuckin’ bucks for double spaced articles and half a dozen full page advertisements. That, most certainly, won’t be the issue here.

So, think you’ve got what it takes to write one? Hit us up! Here’s what we’re looking for:

Pieces on fringe culture:

Know the leader of your local cult? Been sky watching with the UFO buffs? Hunted the Chupacabra? We (and the readers) would love to hear about it.

How-to guides:

Can you teach us how to build a really killer tin-foil hat? Maybe a special piece of equipment that will allow us to speak to the dead? If you can build it, we want you to show us how.

Personal encounters with the strange:

Been abducted by aliens? Woke up to find a crop circle in your back yard? Did your dead grandmother pay you a visit one evening? Tell us about it!

Interviews:

We’re also keeping our eyes out for interviews with interesting folks involved in the world of the weird.

Feel like interviewing one of the cast members of a popular paranormal television show? How about the head of a Bigfoot hunting organization? Perhaps the guy who just made that new paranormal documentary? If you can pry some insight out of them, we can use it.

Reviews:

We’re looking for some eloquent (if not entirely tactful) reviews of weird media.

Have you seen Tom Biscardi’s new documentary defending his involvement in the Georgia Bigfoot Hoax? Read Ryan Buell’s “autobiography”? Picked up another one of the many ghost hunting guidebooks? Give it a review, we’ll print it.

Weird News:

Found something strange in your local newspaper? It doesn’t matter whether it was five years ago or yesterday, we’re interested in hearing about it. Hell, send us a clipping!

Want to advertise in issue #1?

We’ve got some affordable advertising opportunities available for those looking to reach the strange, yet refined audience of Who Forted? readers. For more information, such as ad size and pricing, contact submissions@whofortedmag.com.

So, if you’d like to be immortalized..

..in the hallowed halls of print media, get in touch with us at submissions@whofortedmag.com before October 10th, 2011 and we’ll make it happen. Keep in mind that we won’t be able to print every single piece that gets submitted to us, so in order to maximize your chances, make sure your piece is unique, well-written, and you know, not entirely slanderous. We know what you really want to say about Chip Coffey, but we’d rather not be sued if we can help it.

And hey, just because it doesn’t make it into the print edition doesn’t mean that we can feature it on the website.

We’re pretty excited about the opportunity to enter the same arena as the magazines that we grew up reading (The Fortean Times, FATE, etc.), and we’d like to get as many of our friends involved as possible. At the very least, it will be better than TAPS Paramag, and everyone who writes for it can start calling themselves a published journalist like a pretentious ass.

Sounds like fun, right?

“We are not realists. We are not idealists. We are intermediatists – that nothing is real, but that nothing is unreal; that all phenomena are approximations one way or the other between realness and unrealness.”

-Charles Fort