The Offending Adam is an online journal with the best in new writing, essays on poetics, and book reviews. We also feature art and other unique creative projects. As opposed to annual, biannual, or quarterly publications, we are a truly online venture, taking advantage of the medium’s ability to update continuously, with new content added weekly.

What makes The Offending Adam unique, beyond our embrace of the online medium, is an emphasis on the relationship between contributor, journal, and reader. Our submission process is not a static send-wait-reject/accept. It is a dynamic process between contributor and editor resulting in a publication accompanied by an editorial statement. The journal is a bridge between writer and reader, and we take that responsibility seriously.

You will notice that, while we publish a new issue weekly, we only publish a small selection of content in each issue. We believe that it is important to focus and consider each writer’s work in itself and for our selections to not get lost in a massive wave of content spilled out all at once. Our editorial introductions reinforce this position. Each piece of work is vital and there is a specific reason we believe that it is worth reading. This reason might not be the only reason. We encourage each reader to find his or her own reason for reading the work through giving it true consideration and attention.

We look to pull the offending Adam out of our writers and out of our readers and get them to snap awake and see each other. The journal has little to do with Shakespeare, kings, England, and history plays. The journal does have everything to do with veering outside the expected and the traditional. If we as editors can think of ourselves as composite Falstaffs, encouraging the antithetical right alongside the expected, we are achieving our purpose.

Please email us with any questions or comments.

If you would like to receive updates from us in order to stay in the TOA loop, we offer three different ‘levels’ of updates:

For the TOA lover who wants weekly e-mail reminders so that not one bit of new writing is missed, we invite you to join our mailing list. Please send an email with the subject “SUBSCRIBE” to announcements@theoffendingadam.com.

For the dedicated TOA follower who is already a bit overwhelmed by their daily volume of emails but still wants to make sure that not one bit of content passes by unnoticed, we invite you to join our Facebook group, which has a more streamlined every-other-week messaging policy.

For the TOA supporter who wants to remain in the loop but is overwhelmed in general by the oversaturation of information and news coursing through our postmodern world, we also offer a lower-key Facebook Fan Page that will provide links and news updates that do no more than make a passing mark on your Facebook news feed.

We hope that one of these levels of communication fits your personal needs and desires. If there is another method of communication that you think we should be using to share TOA with the world, please let us know via email.

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