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"Dead Fern has a taste for the sad, dark, peculiar, and sometimes disturbing. If you've found your work hard to place in other publications, we encourage you to send it our way. "

"Dead Fern has a taste for the sad, dark, peculiar, and sometimes disturbing. If you've found your work hard to place in other publications, we encourage you to send it our way. "

Vibe

Send us your fucking worst

Response Time

2 weeks-2 months

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

5 genres

Fiction

No specific limitations

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

All flash fiction should be 1,000 words or less, please only send one piece at a time. Must be previously unpublished.

Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

All CNF should be 3,000 words or less, please only send one piece at a time. Must be previously unpublished.

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 1000

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Submit up to three previously unpublished poems, each poem on it's own page. We are looking to publish all kinds of poetry, but prefer to st...

Fiction

No specific limitations

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 1

All flash fiction should be 1,000 words or less, please only send one piece at a time. Must be previously unpublished.

Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

All CNF should be 3,000 words or less, please only send one piece at a time. Must be previously unpublished.

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 1000

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Submit up to three previously unpublished poems, each poem on it's own page. We are looking to publish all kinds of poetry, but prefer to st...

How to submit

Process

We use Oleada. Please only submit to one category at a time and wait to get a response before submitting again. If you have not heard back from us in two months, please send us an inquiry. Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Cover letters

No formal cover letter needed, but please include a short, 3rd person bio in the space provided–50 to 75 words max.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Please incorporate all works into a single document. Your work should be submitted as a .docx, .doc, or .pdf.

Rights for published work

All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If a piece that is accepted through us is published elsewhere in the future, (either in a collection, another journal, or elsewhere) we ask that you acknowledge Dead Fern Press in your publication.

Additional info

About the Magazine

Founded in 2021 | United States

Dead Fern has a taste for the sad, dark, peculiar, and sometimes disturbing. If you've found your work hard to place in other publications, we encourage you to send it our way. Independently run out of Michigan, we publish poetry, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction regularly throughout the year.

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 :)

Megan Cassiday

Editor-in-Chief

Rami Obeid

Fiction and Poetry Reader

Examples

1 pieces from Chill Subs people