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"A lit mag devoted to the traditional literary short story."
"A lit mag devoted to the traditional literary short story."
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
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
3 genres
Fiction
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 1
Art
Send samples for collaboration.
Photography
Send samples for collaboration.
Fiction
Max words: 2500
Max pieces: 1
Art
Send samples for collaboration.
Photography
Send samples for collaboration.
Statistics
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30
Total submissions tracked
18 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
11 days
Fastest response time
25 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 2 days, 6 days, 31 days
How to submit
Process
Submit your story as a Word attachment to fictivedream@gmail.com. No PDFs and please do not paste your story in the body of your email. We’ll get back to you within three weeks of submission.
Cover letters
Please add a brief biography of no more than 75 words written in the third person with links that you would like to be included.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
No PDFs and please do not paste your story in the body of your email.
Rights for published work
By submitting to Fictive Dream you agree to grant First Serial Rights and non exclusive Electronic Archival Rights to show your work indefinitely on our site. Copyright reverts to the author on publication. We ask that your work does not appear in another publication for three months from the date of publication in Fictive Dream. If, after this time, your work is published in subsequent publications, print or online, we ask that Fictive Dream be acknowledged as the first publisher.
Additional info
Send one story at a time, and please wait for our response before sending another. We nominate the best stories for national and international awards.
About the Magazine
Founded in 2016 | United Kingdom
Welcome to Fictive Dream, the online magazine dedicated to the short story. We chose our name with more than just a backward glance to American writer and teacher John Gardner whose concept of the fictive dream remains a cornerstone of good writing. Powerful writing ensures that readers never slip out of the fictional world or dream that a writer creates. This is the sort of writing we’re looking to promote here at Fictive Dream. If you write fiction with a contemporary feel that gives an insight into the human condition, then we’d like to hear from you. We have eclectic tastes and we don’t shy away from difficult subject matter. We’re interested in stories with a distinctive voice, clarity of thought and precision of language. They may be on any subject. They may be challenging, unsettling, playful, exhilarating or cryptic. Above all, they must be well-crafted and compelling.
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 :)
Laura Black
Editor-in-Chief
Examples
2 pieces from Chill Subs people
