Bewildering Stories

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Bewildering Stories is a weekly webzine accepting speculative, experimental, mainstream, and nonfiction writing in many genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, essays, reviews, and interviews.

Response time info: A decision within four weeks; acknowledgement within three days.

Read the full guidelines at bewilderingstories.com↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyLiterary

All fiction genres and subjects are welcome, especially science fiction, alternate histories, fantasy, and mainstream fiction. Flash fiction is prose shorter than 1,000 words. No overall length restriction, but pages are limited to 3,000 words and longer works may be serialized. Send the complete work, not a sample.

nonfictionLiterary

Nonfiction articles, essays, interviews, biographies, memoirs, reviews, and review articles are welcome on all subjects. No overall length restriction; pages are limited to 3,000 words, with specified exceptions for some review articles and non-English texts.

other

Drama is welcome in all genres and subjects. Send one submission per email, with drama sent to the appropriate editor as well as the Managing Editor.

poetry

Poetry is welcome in all genres and subjects. Short poetry is defined as verse shorter than 120 words, but there is no general restriction as to length; pages are limited to 3,000 words.

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