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Cafe Irreal

cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com

Fiction

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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.

Highlights

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:
    60 days after submission*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    64 days*
    Chill Subs tracker stats
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?*
    Editor reported data
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    ?*
    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

  • Offers expedited response

  • Runs themed calls

How to submit

  • Processs

    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

0%

Average acceptance rate

60 days

Fastest response time

68 days

Slowest 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...

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Country

US

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    Editor-in-Chief

    Editor G.S. Evans avatar

    G.S. Evans

    Editor

    Editor Alice Whittenburg avatar

    Alice Whittenburg

    Editor