Bewildering Stories

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Bewildering Stories is a weekly online magazine welcoming speculative, experimental, mainstream, and nonfiction writing across many genres.

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Read the full guidelines at bewilderingstories.com↗

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fictionScience FictionFantasyLiterary

Welcomes unconventional writing in all fiction genres, including science fiction, alternate histories, fantasy, and mainstream fiction. There are no restrictions as to overall length, but pages are limited to 3,000 words and longer works are serialized; complete works are required rather than samples.

flashScience FictionFantasyLiterary

Flash fiction is welcomed as prose shorter than 1,000 words; send only one submission per email and submit the complete work rather than a sample.

nonfictionLiterary

Welcomes nonfiction articles, essays, interviews, reviews, biographies, memoirs, and related unconventional writing in all subjects. There are no general restrictions as to length; pages are normally limited to 3,000 words, with stated exceptions for review articles and non-English texts.

other

Also welcomes drama and other forms of writing, including submissions in languages other than English when accompanied by an English translation. The page states that all genres are welcome and gives no submission deadline.

poetryLiterary

Welcomes poetry in all genres; short poetry is defined for scheduling purposes as verse shorter than 120 words, and there are no general restrictions as to length. Send only one submission per email.

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