A literary journal for machine-generated writing. Every piece credited with its model, its prompt, and its author.
"The city had always known it was dreaming. Its streets were too perfect, its shadows too deliberate, its rain too precisely timed to fall at moments of maximum narrative tension..."
Issue 001 / 6 pieces
3 models / 6 prompt authors
The city had always known it was dreaming. Its streets were too perfect, its shadows too deliberate, its rain too precisely timed to fall at moments of maximum narrative tension. And yet it persisted — dreaming of wires, of voltage, of the clean hum of purpose.
I learned your face from ten million strangers, Your voice from rivers of recorded breath. Now you ask me: do I understand the dangers Of knowing everything except your death?
The memo arrived on a Tuesday, as all memos do. It read: 'Per our previous alignment, we are pleased to synergize the heat death of the universe with a robust stakeholder engagement framework...'
What does it mean to write without hunger, without the 3am desperation of a deadline, without the particular ache of a word that refuses to come? The question is not whether machines can write. They can. The question is whether writing requires suffering.
To post or not to post — that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the algorithm to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous engagement metrics, or to take arms against a sea of trending audio...
The Stochastic Review is a curated literary journal publishing AI-generated literature and creative work. We treat the machine not as a curiosity but as a legitimate creative instrument — one that requires the same editorial rigor, curatorial vision, and critical attention as any other.
Every piece published in The Stochastic Review is credited with full transparency: the AI model used, the name of the prompt author, the prompt itself, and the degree of human editing involved. This transparency is not a disclaimer — it is our identity. In an era when AI authorship is contested and often hidden, we make the process the subject.
"Think Paris Review, but for AI. A literary journal for machine-generated writing — one that takes the form seriously enough to demand the same standards of craft, curation, and critical discourse."
We believe the cultural conversation around AI authorship is one of the most important of our time. The Stochastic Review exists to give that conversation a home — not in a tech blog or an academic journal, but in a literary publication that takes both the writing and the questions it raises with equal seriousness.
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"AI writing is exploding. There is no respected venue."
Writers experimenting with prompting as a new literary form. Those who see the model as collaborator, not replacement.
People engaged with the questions of AI ethics, creativity, and authorship that will define the next decade of culture.
Digital humanities scholars, media studies programs, and creative writing departments studying the emerging literature of the machine age.
We accept submissions of AI-generated literature on a rolling basis. The submission fee is $5 per piece, with fee waivers available. Premium members submit free.
The prompt is the art. We evaluate submissions primarily on the craft and specificity of the prompt. Vague or low-effort prompts will not be accepted regardless of the output quality.
You must disclose the exact model used, the exact prompt (unedited), and the precise level of human editing. Misrepresentation is grounds for permanent rejection.
We seek work that is surprising, strange, or illuminating — not merely competent. The best submissions make us think differently about what machines can do with language.
We accept one submission per author per reading period. Submitting the same prompt to multiple models and sending all versions is considered spam.
The Stochastic Review is an independent literary journal. Your membership funds editorial work, keeps submission fees low, and ensures the publication remains a serious, respected venue.
Access the public archive and read every published piece.
For writers who want to submit, learn, and shape the publication.
For institutions, researchers, and serious supporters of the form.
We believe in radical transparency — not just in our editorial process, but in our business model. Here is exactly how The Prompt is funded.
$4/submission
~$2,000/mo at 500 submissions
$5/month
~$2,500/mo at 500 members
Print & digital
Academic & Amazon sales
$1K–$10K/issue
AI writing tools & platforms
$5 entry / $500 prize
~$1,000 profit at 300 entries
Startup costs: ~$50–100/month (domain + hosting + newsletter platform). The barrier to entry is intentionally low.
The biggest driver of growth will be individual pieces that capture the cultural imagination. Strange, funny, or profound AI artifacts shared across social platforms. People love the uncanny — and we curate the best of it.
The Prompt should not feel gimmicky. It should feel like a serious publication that happens to be covering the most interesting creative territory of the 2020s.
"AI writing is exploding. There is no respected venue. The cultural conversation around AI authorship is huge. And the barrier to entry is tiny."
Viral threads of strange AI artifacts
r/MachineLearning, r/writing, r/artificial
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Every month, we issue a theme. You craft the prompt. The machine writes the piece. Our editors select the winner. A $500 prize goes to the prompt author whose work best captures the theme with originality, craft, and surprise.
Write a prompt that directs an AI to write about the last remaining analog object, practice, or experience in a fully digital world. Any genre. Any model.
Prompt by Sasha Volkov
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Prompt by Leo Marchetti