OFFAL #1

It’s not for everyone…

Issue 1 of OFFAL includes an exclusive story by award-winning author Ned Beauman, an opera by cult electronic musician Actress, a reverie by artist Scott King, and 4D song lyrics by artist Gemma Anderson. There’s an exclusive entry by author Max Porter, a short play by The White Hotel’s Austin Collings, Apple Sourz and Marlboro Lights with writer Alice-Louise MacGillivray, and an exclusive contribution by modernist fiction legend Gabriel Josipovici.

There’s also an extract by Viz writer Barney Farmer, a short story by musician Alexander Tucker, erasure poetry from author Nat Ogle, photography and verse by Jermaine Francis and Irfan Master, as well as a recipe for how to cook Leviathan, a chat with Slick Rick about prison food, fictional MP appointments, and an unsolicited business proposal for Thom Yorke. Plus free parties, unmade film ideas, and further sweepings from the cultural factory floor.

  • OFFAL is an independent journal of literary offcuts and artistic experiments, celebrating and shedding new light on the leftovers, scraps and experiments of the creative process

  • OFFAL is also a cult AI-voiced comedy/ literature radio show, or ‘audio zine’, drawing on and adding to the publication. (‘the Blue Jam comparisons are irresistible’ – Dazed)

  • Issue 1 of OFFAL comes with a free download of the first six episodes of the show

Open book showing text and a red image of a pot with steam, titled 'Leviathan (A Recipe)' by Mark Blacklock.

Edited by Mark Blacklock (Hinton, I’m Jack – Granta) & Roderick Stanley (Dazed & Confused, Good Trouble)

Designed by Richard Turley (Interview, Civilization, Nuts) & Julia Schäfer (MoMA PS1)

OFFAL is printed A5 on 110gsm/350gsm(cover), in just two colours (black & Pantone red), using only tools available in Microsoft Word

£20

You can buy it here

PRAISE FOR OFFAL #1

“A great read, intriguingly designed. What more do you want from a Magazine of the Month?” – Jeremy Leslie, MagCulture

“A genuinely exciting and formally daring magazine of literary fiction that you should all be following.” – The Fence magazine

“A new magazine with an immediately distinctive voice... I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.”
– Steve Watson, Stack Magazines, letter to subscribers

“Offal Industries is the kind of really interesting media company that you can’t wait to find out what their next thing will be.” – StoryThings

“It’s a proper mag. Not a stupid mag. It’s part of the great tradition, not the crap tradition” – Max Porter

“Such a brilliant idea, so well executed, I love the funnies, I love the philosophy, I love the design, it's brilliant” – Rob Orchard, Delayed Gratification

“Terrific – a real cutup for our times. I love the way image/text relate, and then fragments and the great production. It shows there's still possibilities in print media in exploring our crazy times.” – Peter Kennard