Welcome! Die a Few Times is a Literary Magazine run by a team of young, up-and-coming writers. The site was created in 2011 to provide a progressive space for unpublished or under represented writers in the UK and Ireland to share their work in a not-for-profit setting. We want to hear from people who like telling stories in an alternative, unique and interesting way.

We are now looking for submissions for our first issue, to be launched in September. The deadline for this issue is August 15th 2011. We publish four magazines per year: Our Winter Issue is launched in January, our Spring issue in April, Summer Issue in July and our Autumn Issue in September. There are no themes in our issues and we are open to all genres and subjects. We are currently not accepting visual art submissions.

The most important thing for us is that whatever is submitted is original in every sense of the word. The piece cannot have been submitted elsewhere and we'd prefer if it wasn't under consideration for other sites/publications. We're open minded and read every single submission, but like any other magazine, are looking for a high standard of writing. That doesn't mean you can't do things your way, in fact uniqueness is exactly what we're after. We're looking for people who are willing to push boundaries and re-interpret what it means to be a writer, how to tell a story and how to shape existing forms for your own voice. Leave no soldier behind! 
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Editor's Mission Statement
I have, since the age of seven, been telling anyone that would listen that "I want to become a writer when I grow up". I've said it so many times now that it has stopped making sense. And leaving aside the depressing questions that I have to ask myself about how and when I intend to "grow up", I have come to realise that in this turgid repetition, I have missed out on the flaw at the center of my mantra. No one wants to become a writer, unless of course that person has not yet learned how to write. You either are a writer or you aren't. And that is not supposed to be the kind of statement that purports to that myth that people are born to be anything, to do anything in particular. Because honestly, I don't believe in that. It is meant as simply as it is put; you can pick up a pen and write some letters, or you can't. Yet. 

So having spent sixteen years thinking and talking about the point at which I will become a writer, I have realised that I already am. I am writing this, for one. But I have also been writing, and I mean stories this time, since I was seven, if even just in my head. Everyone has got something to say and unfortunately we live in a world in which only few are allowed to say anything. But it really doesn't have to be that way. The Internet is one of the greatest, and still shockingly underused, most fabulously uncensored places to shout about anything and everything, and we intend to take advantage of it. And this is all a roundabout way of saying that what we're trying to do here is shout. Or say something, whisper it, screech it, just get it out there. Get the stories out of us. Because waiting around for someone to phone you up and say "I want to commission you to write the great INSERT YOUR NATIONALITY HERE novel" is not only unrealistic but its also a massive waste of the criminal amounts of talent that is out there, sitting on twitter, refreshing and refreshing and waiting. For something to happen.

                                                                                                                             Ciara Burke