Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine founded in September 2015. We publish 5 fiction/nonfiction pieces on the 5th of every month.

Mahdis Marzooghian

Mary-Anne Nelligan

Rhea Dhanbhoora

Five on the Fifth

A note on what we don't want: We do not publish novels. We do not publish fan fiction. We do not publish experimental pieces. We do not publish articles or research papers. We do not publish erotica, though there can be erotic and/or graphic elements in your fiction, as long as they are tasteful and for the purpose of telling a great story. 

Multiple submissions are permitted. However, for longer pieces such as general fiction, horror, fantasy/science-fiction, or nonfiction, please only send two (2) pieces at once. For shorter pieces such as flash fiction, please only send three (3) pieces at once. You may also send one longer piece (general fiction, horror, fantasy/science-fiction, or nonfiction) and one flash fiction piece at once, so two (2) pieces total. 

General call

Benjamin Davis (he/him) has stories and poems in several literary journals, including Wigleaf, Booth, Moon City Press, and Slippery Elm Press. His poem collection, The King of FU (Nada Blank, 2018), was such a smashing success it shocked the indie press who printed it into an early grave. He is now writing his first six novels. Find him on Chill Subs.


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BIO: Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – MFA

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss living and working in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read her latest work in The Disappointed Housewife, Subnivean, The Woolf, and forthcoming in Across the Margin and The Vincent Brothers Review. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an award-winning and anthologized American-Swiss writer who lives in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her long-form fiction in publications including As You Were, Collateral, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Litbreak Magazine, Longleaf Review, Subnivean, New World Writing, and upstreet. Her flash fiction has appeared in publications including The Woolf, The Disappointed Housewife, Bandit Fiction, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Flash Boulevard, Fudoki Magazine, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, Lunate, Reflex Fiction, and Orca Lit. Her monthly musings about life and her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her short stories in a variety of publications, including As You Were: The Military Review, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Longleaf Review, New World Writing, Subnivean, and upstreet. Her flash fiction appears in Bandit Fiction, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, and Orca Lit. She’s at work on a collection of short stories, a collection of flash fiction, and a campus novel involving misogyny and plagiarism. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – at work on . . . 

Dinah Susan Alobeid is a writer, dancer, mother, and senior director of content and communications marketing (we all have to make a living somehow). Her short story, “The Radiator Hisses Steam And Drips Uncontrollable Scalding Droplets” was a finalist for the Porter House Review Editors Prize 2023-2024. She has also published fiction in Five on the Fifth, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Porter House Review, and Reverie Literary Magazine. You can read her essays, articles, and poems in Motherly, Spectrum Magazine, MediaPost, Luna Luna, and Blast. Dinah lives in New Jersey with her partner and their rambunctious toddler.

July 2024 bio

Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications in print and online, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. She worked previously as an editor at Hecate Magazine, Wrong Publishing, the Jupiter Review, and Longleaf Review. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

general bio

Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

50-word bio

Dear editors,

Thank you for considering this piece for publication at Five on the Fifth. This is a simultaneous submission and if accepted, I publish work under my first name only. The word count of this piece is 860.

Bio: Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

Warm regards,
Auzin Ahmadi (she/her)

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NSFW cover letter

It was Dostoevsky or Nabokov, or some other -ski or -kov, or maybe a -lov or -kin that coined the canals of Saint Petersburg veins and, if they were right, Saint Petersburg is dead, frozen solid.

Teacup

A girl dressed in flowers came out of the woods. It was night and the stars were swirling.



The Madman and the Flower Girl

A surreal flash fiction about a woman searching for her troubled brother after he disappears in a dark forest.

Follow Me

If the hitchhiker noticed the question’s disapproving tone, she ignored it. “I’m a poet,” she said as breezy as the air flowing through the open windows, the car gaining speed. “I’m walking the poem I write, and I’m writing the poem I walk.”



Walking the Poem

On Monday, I went for lunch at a vegetarian restaurant in Lviv that I used to go to last year and ran into S___, a waitress I knew from that time.

Gone

When Olive was nervous, she removed parts of her body. Eyelashes, dead skin, blackheads. Hangnails, bitten off. Chin hairs, plucked out. Nothing anyone would miss. 

The Most Beautiful Thing In The World

A Somber Timbre spans a short stretch of highway as a daughter and father find themselves growing further apart while they sit side by side. The pair struggle to understand each other in the shadow of the mother’s untimely death.

A Somber Timbre

“Think of it like a wilderness retreat,” I tell Tina, as we pull rocks from the sunken hollow where we aim to sleep. “We can pretend we're on one of those adventure leadership courses and not on the lam from some overpriced rehab.” 

California

"My father died so unexpectedly that a panicked part of my brain froze, thinking it was still August for months afterward. I caught myself incorrectly dating documents until a new calendar year shook me loose."

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