Bewildering Stories

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Bewildering Stories is a weekly online magazine publishing speculative, experimental, and mainstream fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of any length, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy, and literary work.

Response time info: decision within four weeks

Read the full guidelines at bewilderingstories.com↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyLiterary

Invites unconventional writing in all genres—prose, including science fiction, fantasy, and mainstream fiction; no restrictions as to length, but works over 3,000 words are serialized across issues; flash fiction is prose under 1,000 words; novels, novellas, and serials accepted; 'All genres are…

flashScience FictionFantasyLiterary

Flash fiction is prose shorter than 1,000 words; all genres welcome, including speculative and mainstream.

nonfiction

Publishes nonfiction articles, essays, reviews (real or imaginary), interviews, biographies, and memoirs; all subjects and genres welcome.

poetry

Publishes poetry of any length (short poetry is under 120 words); all genres and styles welcome.

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