14/02/25
Happy over-commercialised last-minute flowers from the petrol station day!
Our gift to you is updating the website with our shiny new logo and colours. We wanted to convey what we’re all about. Not chickens in disguise (although, we aren’t NOT about that). More a sense of silliness and fun.
Speaking of which, we are still receiving submissions, which is wonderful. The increased interest will perhaps mean slower-than-usual response times, so please don’t panic if you have not heard back yet. As long as your submission follows the guidelines, you will always get a response.
We’ve also been planning something very exciting. All will be revealed after the next issue has been released.
Now, you’d better find a vase for those flowers.
Keep laughing,
Scott and Amanda
03/02/25
First, just to avoid any confusion with our American readers, we’re using the British date format. We have not time-travelled into March. If I could time travel forward a few months, it would be to when I have already dragged myself back to the gym and removed this seasonal weight.
We’ve had a fabulous response to the submission call so far. Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest. The standard is very high, which is lovely to see. We have, unfortunately, had a few submissions from people who clearly have not read the guidelines. Please do not submit until you read the submission page. We will not respond to people who do not follow the guidelines (this is, ironically, pointed out in the guidelines). Anyway, that’s the last time I’ll type guid – that’s the last time I’ll be typing that in this entry.
We will start to respond to the stories already received within the next seven days, so keep an eye out. In the meantime, I suppose I should put down the cake and renew my gym membership. Well, maybe one more slice.
Yours waist-expandingly,
Scott
WELL, HELLO THERE.
Changes are afoot here at Humour Me magazine. We will be going live with our new new logo and look soon. In the meantime, we have posted our first submission call of 2025. You can find full details on our submissions page.
This is our fourth(!) consecutive year and our third consecutive year as a paying market. We are so grateful to everyone that has shown an interest in our magazine over the last few years. To all the people that have taken the time to share their precious word babies with us, thank you and to everyone that has read and talked about it, thank you.
This semi-regular blog will be replacing the ‘final thoughts’ feature in the magazine. Our issues will be more spaced out than usual this year, so we thought it important to keep you up to date with what is going on, and perhaps a few peeps around the curtain with some laughs here and there.
We do have one request, if you’ll indulge us. Please, do not submit any writing without checking the submissions page. Even when our market has been closed over the last few months, we still have been receiving submissions. It’s a waste of your time, and the last thing you want to do with the time thief that is the querying trenches, is waste time.
We look forward to reading more of your amazing, funny stories.
Keep laughing,
Scott and Amanda