RAGAD is an online and print literary magazine that is published quarterly featuring two stories per print installment. Our online magazine is updated monthly, also featuring two or three stories per with a more experimental form to them. Our print installments are distributed in the the Chicagoland area, the Milwaukee metro area, and select cities across the country--check back for actual locations soon.

We publish short fiction of 2500 words or less from new writers and established names, as well as anyone in between. Check our submission guidelines for info on getting your great work to us. We run on volunteer power, and if anyone would like to help us out as far as distribution, promotion, or just hanging out with us goes, please drop us a line. And submit now, for you'll be hooked on RAGAD before you know it.

RAGAD is:

Founder/editor: Nick Ostdick

Co-founder/web-aficionado: Sarah Marchese

Email Nick at: authorpage1@yahoo.com

Email Sarah at: dymphnalynn22@yahoo.com 

Submissions: submissions@ragadzine.com

Distribution
	To order a current or backissue of RAGAD, send $2, specifying which issue, of course, to: Nick Ostdick 6112 Meyer Rd Marengo, IL 60152   Please wait about a week or so for delivery.   One can hold a lifetime subscritpion to RAGAD for $20. Email editor Nick Ostdick at authorpage1@yahoo.com for more info on that.   Below is a somewhat comprehensive listing of establishments that carry our print installments. If you don't see your city and you think it should be listed, give us a holler and we'll try and work it in. We're always looking for more "outlets," so give us shout if you know of some venue that would like to give RAGAD a home. Chicago, IL The Book Cellar MoJoe's Hothouse Quimby's Chicago Comics Heartland Cafe Metropolis Coffee Company Woodstock, IL Read Between the Lynes Milwaukee, WI Woodland Pattern Bloomington, IN Boxcar Books Louisville, KY Ear X-Tacy Old Louisville Coffeehouse Cincinnati, OH Hobo Books Cleveland Heights, OH Mac's Backs NYC The Bowery Poetry Club Memphis, TN Burke's Books Ashland, OR Evo's Southern Oregon Univerity Library The Beanery