Café Irreal (Cafe Irreal)

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Café Irreal is a quarterly webzine publishing irreal, fantastic fiction influenced by writers such as Kafka, Abe, Lispector, and Borges.

Response time info: usually two months, up to four months

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Submission calls

fictionFantasyCloses Jan 1, 2027Pays: Honorarium of one cent U.S. per word, with a $2 minimum; payment upon publication.

Irreal fiction resembling Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector, and Jorge Luis Borges; stories may reject realistic portrayal and full resolution. Up to 2,000 words, with no minimum. Translations are welcome. Submissions are accepted year-round by email; the deadline for the next issue, Winter 2027, is January 1, 2027. AI-generated submissions are not accepted, and reprints are considered only in unusual cases.

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