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Cafe Irreal

Creative Magazine/Website
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Type
Creative
Vibe
Top tier. Not Paris Review, but pretty close
Payment
$0.01 per word
Fee
No fee
Acceptance rate
0%
Response time
61 days/60 days
Print issues
No
Accepts previously published
Yes
Nominates for prizes
No

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The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English. This fiction, which we would describe as irreal, resembles the work of writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges. As a type of fiction it rejects the tendency to portray people and places realistically and the need for a full resolution to the story; instead, it shows us a reality constantly bein...

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Location
United States
Founded
1998
Affiliations
Independent
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