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Guidelines

"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

3 weeks / 18 days

Acceptance Rate

7.41%

  • 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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Track submission

30

Total submissions tracked

18 days

Average response time

7.41%

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