Parley Lit

Parley Lit is a literary organization, podcast, and multimedia literary magazine with a focus on accessibility through multigenre and multimedia work that holds space for artists from traditionally marginalized backgrounds. Soon Parley will offer community education in performance arts in accessible formats and writing courses that focus on intersections between form, genre, and identity. In our podcast, Totally Biased Reviews, we create space for primarily independent authors and playwrights to review and promote their own work in conversation with our editors. Each issue is presented on our website, as a podcast playlist, and as a YouTube playlist. We work with our writers to help them build community relationships with other artists, as we believe in furthering support for underrepresented communities and providing them space to learn about other makers to share their own work and build creative energy to create new work. Our aesthetic is described below:
Beautiful. Specific. Alive.
We like stories that acknowledge plot, even if they find a moving way to subvert it. We believe in work that is respectful, curious, funny as hell, dark or brutal. We fall for work that we can feel in our bodies. We fall for work that drags us through your world and gives us something to think about or remember when we leave. We want to feel like we read your story or watched your performance for a reason. Your work is a gift. We want to receive it, all the way through.

We dig voices – dialog-driven work and actual voices, out loud.

We love work that is cinematic or lyric or both. We love writers who combine science or journalism with performance or art. We love illustration and animation. We believe graphic work and performance is made stronger with literary craft. We trust you to find new ways to bring this to us.