A Great Fuss is themed around the definition of “foofaraw.” Every piece must align to one of these two definitions: a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant. an excessive amount of decoration or ornamentation, as on a piece of clothing, a building, etc.
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General areas of interest include surreal, slipstream, speculative, and strange. You can expect to hear back within 21 days. We are looking for 18 short stories (<2,500 words), five longer stories (up to 7,500 words), and five poems that will run in the second half of 2026.
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Someone Else’s September is our new annual special edition issue for H2, where someone else—from the Fellowship of Foofaraw—takes the reins, pairing nicely with H1’s Mindlessly Massive March. We will be publishing 3-4 flash stories (250-2500 words), 1-2 short stories (2500-7500 words), and 1-2 poems in the September issue.
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General areas of interest include surreal, slipstream, speculative, and strange. You can expect to hear back within 21 days. We are looking for 26 short stories (<2,500 words), nine longer stories (up to 7,500 words), and six poems that will run in the first half of 2027.
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The Foofs is Foofaraw's annual awards and anthology for the Best Strange Fiction of the Year. You can nominate your own stories that were published elsewhere throughout 2026. Stories must have been published at a litmag or in an anthology (or similar type publication) for the first time in 2026 and cannot be self-published. Writers can nominate three of their own stories across any category. Editors can nominate two pieces per category.
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No windows, no themes, no waiting for the next quarterly call. We want witty and smart writing about the moment we are living in.
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No windows, no themes, no waiting for the next quarterly call.
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General Guidelines
Word Limit:
- Main Digital Zine
- 250-7500
- The Anthology
- 500-5000
- Novelette Guidelines
- 7500-15000
- Op-eds
- 750-1250
Pay Rate:
- Fiction: $0.02 per word; up to $50
- Poetry: $1 per line; up to $25
- Op-ed/Satire/Cartoon: $15.00
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)
- 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.