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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
Acceptance Rate
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 Must be previously unpublished.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 Must be previously unpublished.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Submit up to three previously unpublished poems, each poem on it's own page.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 Must be previously unpublished.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 Must be previously unpublished.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Submit up to three previously unpublished poems, each poem on it's own page.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
