We will officially open for our first ever submission call on
September 21, 2025. We look forward to reading your real, surreal & brutally beautiful writing. Read more about our magazine
here.
We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world.
We publish one piece each week, which means we'e highly selective and read with care.
Simultaneous submissions are fine — just let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
We do not currently accept previously published works. Self-published pieces (on your blog, Substack, etc.), however, are welcome.
All submissions are handled through our custom submission portal.
Submissions are always free for general categories. If you'd like to support our magazine, you can become a paid subscriber via our Substack, leave a tip, or request paid editorial feedback. These options help ua sustain the magazine and pay our writers.
Currently, our general response time is ~4 months. We offer a $10 Fast Response option, wherein we'll respond within 4 weeks.
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Hugo Awards, and Locus Awards.
We pay all our contributors:
ꫂ❁ $200 per short story/essay
⋆✮ $50 per flash piece
Payments are made via PayPal within one week of publication.
Writers are at the center of everything we do, and raising our contributor payments is one of our highest priorities. If you'd like to help us grow, you can
become a paid subscriber or make a
one-time donation.We've built this cool little portal through Tally. Since we're new and scrappy, we wanted to see if we could do something without the biggest name in the game when it comes to taking submissions (ahem, Submittable)
