Zine Submission Guidelines

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Response Time

You can expect to hear back within 21 days—feel free to reach out or check the status of your submission at anytime.

Guidelines

Word Limit:

250-2500 words

Pay Rate:

Fiction: $0.01 per word
Poetry: $5.00

Language:

English

Rights:

We request first serial rights and non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights. As well as the right to publish in a limited biannual print collection Any rights not used by the publisher within twelve months will return to the author.

Requirements:

We do not accept multiple submissions from a single person at a time
We do not accept simultaneous submissions (pieces sent to more than one place at a time).
We do not accept previously published works.
We do not accept work created or assisted by AI.

What are we looking for

Fiction
Comics
Humor/Satire
Essays
- Personal, Journalism, Cultural Criticism
Features
Columns
Poetry
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 come from the likes of: Believer, The New Yorker, NY and London Review of Books, Real Review, Delayed Gratification, Cereal, New York, Monocle, The Modernist, and The Economist.

Reoccurring column ideas are welcome.