is this up publishes work by two authors 3 - 5 times per year in a 5 x 7 in., 16-page chapbook format. 

Submit no more than 2500 words of short fiction, prose poetry, or 7 pages of black and white comics.

is this up is a monthly publication of short fiction. Each issue features two authors.

is this up is strange because we are strange.

is this up seeks writing that is joyfully experimental, artificial, transgressive, restlessly inventive, searching and wild.

is this up is, generally speaking, short fiction, prose poetry, and possibly black & white comics.

is this up seeks to locate at least some of its sensibility in writing that is

• working class
• rust belt surrealism
• quirky
• African-American futurism
• feminist
• queer
• punk
• hip-hop
• midwestern gothic
• ethnic
• immigrant
• ecstatic
• midwest post-industrial futurism
• dreamlike
• obsessive
• non-linear
• poetic
• bewildering
• joyfully creative
• whatever else we can think of