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"The magazine was established to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. We believe that there is a need for a magazine that, first and foremost, gives new and emerging writers an opportunity to get their work out into the world."
"The magazine was established to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. We believe that there is a need for a magazine that, first and foremost, gives new and emerging writers an opportunity to get their work out into the world."
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Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes: see Genres section for details
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
No
Previously published
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provides contributor copies
Yes: 1 and can order further copies at a discounted rate
Examples online
No
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
5 genres
Fiction
short fiction; novel extracts
Flash Fiction
Max words: 1000
1-2 pages
Nonfiction
No specific limitations
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
For our Featured Poets category, you may submit 6-8 poems. Please see guidelines for eligibility.
Art
Cover artists must be over 18 and live on the island of Ireland and/or consider Ireland to be their home.
Fiction
short fiction; novel extracts
Flash Fiction
Max words: 1000
1-2 pages
Nonfiction
No specific limitations
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
For our Featured Poets category, you may submit 6-8 poems. Please see guidelines for eligibility.
Art
Cover artists must be over 18 and live on the island of Ireland and/or consider Ireland to be their home.
Statistics
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52
Total submissions tracked
100 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
76 days
Fastest response time
127 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 234 days, 711 days, 938 days
How to submit
Process
We use Submittable.
Cover letters
Here at The Stinging Fly, giving everyone a fair shake is very important to us, and we strongly encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented areas of society. But at the submissions stage, or the first reading of your work, your bio/cover letter/ publication credits have little bearing on our decision making. Many of our readers choose to read work without looking at any of the cover sheets or bios. Later, of course, we’ll want to know more about you, and your bio may or may not provide useful context. But first and foremost, your submission will be judged on its own terms, and not on your background, your achievements, or inexperience, as the case may be!
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Your work should always be just as long (or as short) as it needs to be.
Rights for published work
We purchase first serial rights. Work published in the magazine is also published on our website. Copyright remains in all cases with the author.
Additional info
We have a particular interest in promoting new writers, and in promoting the short story form. We strongly encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented areas of society. Writers may only submit work to us under one category per submission period.
About the Magazine
Founded in 1997 | Ireland
THE STINGING FLY is a literary magazine, a book publisher, an education provider, and an online platform. We’re independent and not for profit. Our mission is to seek out, nurture, publish and promote the very best new writers and new writing.
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 :)
Declan Meade
Editor-in-Chief
Lisa McInerney
Editor
Cal Doyle
Poetry Editor
Thomas Morris
Editor at Large
Examples
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