Café Irreal (Cafe Irreal)

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The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine publishing irreal, fantastic fiction in the tradition of Kafka, Borges, and Lispector.

Response time info: usually respond in two months, though it can take as long as four months

Read the full guidelines at alicewhittenburg.com↗

Submission calls

fictionFantasyHorrorPays: one cent U.S. per word ($2 minimum), paid upon publication

Irreal, fantastic fiction up to 2,000 words; no minimum length; translations welcome; no simultaneous submissions; submit by pasting story in email body; up to 2,000 words per author at a time (one story or several short shorts in one email); deadline for next issue (Summer 2026) was July 1, 2026…

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