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Deadline

Oct 1, 2023

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"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."

"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."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

2 months / 65 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    Yes: $0.01 per word

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    No

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

2 genres

Fiction

Max words: 2000

Regarding submission of more than one story at a time, we will consider up to 2,000 words submitted by a single author at a given time, eith...

Translation

Max words: 2000

Fiction

Max words: 2000

Regarding submission of more than one story at a time, we will consider up to 2,000 words submitted by a single author at a given time, eith...

Translation

Max words: 2000

Statistics

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Track submission

5

Total submissions tracked

65 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

61 days

Fastest response time

68 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We accept only electronic submissions via e-mail at editors@cafeirreal.com.

Cover letters

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.

Rights for published work

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

About the Magazine

Founded in 1998 | United States

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 being undermined. Therefore, we're interested in stories by writers who write about what they don't know, take us places we couldn't possibly go, and don't try to make us care about the characters.

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 :)

G.S. Evans

Editor

Alice Whittenburg

Editor

Examples

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