"Founded in 1972 by Donald Barthelme & Mark Mirsky, Fiction is a leading literary magazine publishing the best in fiction."
Introduction
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
up to a year
Average acceptance rate
3.34%
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
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Important stuff
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Staying under 5,000 words is encouraged, but we will read short story, novelette, and novella fiction manuscripts of any length. We do not publish full length novels, flash fiction.
literary
experimental
humor
Fiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Staying under 5,000 words is encouraged, but we will read short story, novelette, and novella fiction manuscripts of any length. We do not publish full length novels, flash fiction.
literary
experimental
humor
Magazine
Founded in 1972 | United States
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 :)
Mark Jay Mirsky
Editor-in-Chief
Sonja Killebrew
Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
427
Average acceptance rate
3.34%
Average response time
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Average acceptance/rejection time
-/-
Fastest response time
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Slowest response time
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