Stories that reject 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 being undermined.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 60 days after submission*/Editor reported data64 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data?*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Process
Email
Cover letter
Include your name, address, e-mail address, and a short bio in the text of the submission; please put the word "submission" in the subject heading of the e-mail to ensure that your submission doesn't get lost among all the spam.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
We cannot, due to the various computer viruses and worms, accept attachments anymore, so please paste your story into the body of the e-mail.
Author's rights
We pay an honorarium of one cent U.S. per word ($2 minimum) to buy first-time internet rights (the story will then be archived).
Additional info
Pays! 1 cent/word, $2 min Sometimes accept previously published: "only interested in reprints in unusual cases (e.g., the story has appeared in print but not on the internet)" Promote writers even after publication - hype hype hype No simultaneous submissions
Tracker statistics
10
Total submissions tracked
64 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
53 days
Fastest response time
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About
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 t...
Read moreFounded
1998
Country
US
Masthead
Editor-in-Chief
G.S. Evans
Editor
Alice Whittenburg
Editor