Lubricate Reality With Dreams
OFFAL is back with its second issue, with another thrilling trip through literary leftovers, artistic experiments and found fragments. Highlights include author Richard Milward’s manifesto for living a ‘liberated lavvy’ (written in Polari, the almost-forgotten gay slang), a dialogue-free play by Tom McCarthy, an essay by Daniel Pinchbeck, plus fragments of fiction from Labeja Kodua Okullu, Kirsty Allison, Henderson Downing and Timothy J Jarvis.
Also featuring Offalism (A Manifesto), a guide to cooking the mythical Three-Angel Roast, a poem about Margate called ‘The only way to change things is to shoot men who curate things…’, and a 1953 speech by Allen Dulles, first director of the CIA, warning of Russian psy-op campaigns.
OFFAL #2 includes a free download of all 12 episodes of Offal Season Two, the cult AI-voiced ‘audio zine’, plus an exclusive 60-minute DJ mix from in-house producer Brad Muscle. There’s also a pull-out A2 poster of ‘Selected Lyrical Works’, the collected lyrics of Aphex Twin 1991–2025.
All watched over by Dr Smile, Offal’s AI recreation of a fictional construct from a novel by Philip K Dick – now in-house psychotherapist in a suitcase, and Synthetic Oversight Entity (Publishing).
Second issue of OFFAL, the independent journal celebrating and recontextualising artistic offcuts – fragments of fiction, formal experiments and found materials.
OFFAL also exists as a cult ‘audio zine’ – an uncanny blend of fiction fragments, satirical skits and musical soundtrack. ‘A hilarious yet hauntingly uncanny Blue Jam-style fusion of horror, sketch show and soundscape.’ – The Guardian)
Issue 2 of OFFAL comes with a free download of Offal Season Two (12 episodes) & an exclusive 60-minute DJ ‘Offalmix’ from in-house producer Brad Muscle
Includes free pull-out A2 poster of ‘The Collected Lyrics of Aphex Twin 1991–2025’
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 three colours (black, Pantone red and metallic gold), using tools available in Microsoft Word
£19
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
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
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
