Submissions

We have four open calls:

Mindlessly Massive guidelines

Submissions are OPEN Submission form | Submission queue We are looking for FOUR longer stories to accompany our regular stories for our Mindlessly Massive March special deluxe edition of the magazine. Submissions will be open until Jan 31st or once we have accepted four stories for the March issue. Response Time

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• The anthology: OPEN until March 31st
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• The Foofs (Annual awards): OPEN until January 15th
  • Short story awards for stories published in 2025
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• Quotidian Bagatelle (micro imprint): OPEN for submissions
  • Stories and essays under 250 words, short poems, and small artwork
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Closed

• Main call for the web magazine: CLOSED until April 2026
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• An ordinary contest: CLOSED for registration
  • Entries available for purchase beginning April 2026

Always open

• Op-eds: ALWAYS OPEN
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• Novella/Novelettes: ALWAYS OPEN — please get in touch with us first
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

You can find us on Submission Grinder and Chill Subs

General Guidelines

Word Limit: 

• Main Digital Zine
  • 250-2500
• The Anthology
  • 500-5000
• Novella + Novelette Guidelines
  • 7500-15000
• Op-eds
  • 750-1250

Pay Rate: 

• Fiction: $0.01 per word
• Poetry: $5.00
• Op-ed: $5.00

Language: 

• English

Rights: 

We request first serial rights and non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights. Any rights not used by the publisher within twelve months will return to the author.

Authors always own their writing and can take it and do whatever they'd like with it. We just get to publish it and share it with the world.

Requirements:

• We do not accept multiple submissions from a single person at a time (within a single submission type)
• Simultaneous submissions are not accepted for the main website call.
  • They are allowed for our other calls as long as it's noted and withdrawn immediately if accepted elsewhere
• We do not accept work created or assisted by AI.

What are we looking for

• Fiction
• Comics
• Humor/Satire
• Poetry
• Op-eds
• and anything else that fits the vibe

Fiction

The general areas/genres of interest for fiction in foofaraw are:

• Magical Realism
• Speculative Fiction
• Sci-Fi
• Fantasy
• Literary
• LGBTQIA+
• Horror
• Mystery
• Noir
• Odd / Surreal / Absurdist / Experimental

Mainstream authors we enjoy include: Robin Sloan, Cory Doctorow, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Tamsyn Muir, Ray Nayler, Martha Wells, Corey J. White, and fiction from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Uncanny Magazine, The New Yorker, Flash Fiction Online, GigaNotoSaurus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and The Paris Review.

Serialized works are welcome.

Magazine inspirations include Believer, The New Yorker, NY and London Review of Books, Real Review, Delayed Gratification, Cereal, New York, Monocle, The Modernist, and The Economist.

Recurring column ideas are welcome.