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"BewilderingStories publishes writing ranging from speculative fiction to realism in prose, poetry, and drama. Non-fiction and artwork are also featured."

"BewilderingStories publishes writing ranging from speculative fiction to realism in prose, poetry, and drama. Non-fiction and artwork are also featured."

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Response Time

within four weeks

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

9 genres

Fiction

Max words: 9000

science fiction, including accounts of alternate histories past, present and future; fantasy; mainstream fiction

Nonfiction

Max words: 9000

non-fiction articles, essays; biographies, or memoirs

Poetry

9000 words max

Review

reviews and review articles, which may deal with real or imaginary books, plays, films on any subject as well as musical performances

Interview

real or fictional interviews

Translation

We also welcome submissions in languages other than English. However, all such submissions must be accompanied by an English translation.

Art

No specific limitations

Play

3000 words max

Audio

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 9000

science fiction, including accounts of alternate histories past, present and future; fantasy; mainstream fiction

Nonfiction

Max words: 9000

non-fiction articles, essays; biographies, or memoirs

Poetry

9000 words max

Review

reviews and review articles, which may deal with real or imaginary books, plays, films on any subject as well as musical performances

Interview

real or fictional interviews

Translation

We also welcome submissions in languages other than English. However, all such submissions must be accompanied by an English translation.

Art

No specific limitations

Play

3000 words max

Audio

No specific limitations

Statistics

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How to submit

Process

Every submission needs a title and byline; otherwise, we may lose track of who wrote what. Please send texts in the format easiest for you. If we have trouble opening a file, we’ll let you know.

Cover letters

New contributors, please include a cover message addressed specifically to Bewildering Stories and tell us a little something about yourselves.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Word.doc and Word.docx are commonly used. RTF (Rich Text Format) is also available in most word processors.

Rights for published work

We purchase — with no payment but our gratitude — first, non-exclusive electronic rights for the works we accept.

Additional info

We make no restrictions as to length. We like to keep works as compact as possible, but we also think our frequency of publication makes serials attractive and keeps readers coming back. We cannot consider, regardless of merit: Micro-poetry; Inspirational or religious literature; Fan fiction; Computer-generated texts. Scheduling: Titles are scheduled roughly in chronological order of acceptance. The on-line schedule shows the next four weeks of the official schedule, which is normally longer.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2002 | Canada

Bewildering Stories — known informally as “BwS” — is a weekly electronic publication featuring speculative fiction as well as non-fiction, namely poetry, articles, essays, reviews, and art. What does “Bewildering” really mean? One thing it does not mean: “befuddling.” We do not like literature that is meaningless or self-contradictory or that asks the readers to do the writing for the author. What “Bewildering” does mean is “unconventional” and “thought-provoking.” Who would pay any attention to a title so conventional as “Unconventional Stories”? Our name puts our preference into practice. What is “speculative fiction”? We have no hard and fast rule. Theoretically, it is not contemporary realism, but we’ve cheerfully published contemporary realism, too: it was sent to us, and we liked it. If your submission — whatever it may be — meets our guidelines, we’ll be glad to consider it.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Don Webb

Editor-in-Chief

Charles C. Cole

Flash Fiction Editor

John Stocks

Poetry Editor

Examples

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