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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."
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Response Time
Acceptance Rate
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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Total submissions tracked
65 days
Average response time
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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