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Submissions are OPEN

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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 any time. Expedited responses can be purchased for $5 to hear back within 48 hours.

Story name and email address must match between submission and expedited response. Purchase and submission must happen within 2 hours of each other (you can't pay for an expedited response and then submit 3 weeks later).

Guidelines

Word Limit: 

  • 250-2500 words

Pay Rate: 

  • Fiction: $0.01 per word
  • Poetry: $0.08 per word for a maximum of $5.00

Language: 

  • English

Rights: 

We request first serial rights, non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, and the right to publish in a limited biannual print collection and a monthly ebook edition. 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 previously published works
  • We do not accept simultaneous submissions for this call
  • We do not accept work created or assisted by AI

What are we looking for

  • Fiction
  • Comics
  • Humor/Satire
  • Features
  • Poetry
  • and anything else that fits the vibe

Fiction

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

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

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.