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Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine publishing irreal, Kafkaesque fantastic fiction that undermines realistic conventions and avoids full resolution.

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

Read the full guidelines at cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com↗

Submission calls

fictionFantasyPays: Honorarium of one U.S. cent per word, with a $2 minimum; payment upon publication.

Accepts unsolicited irreal or fantastic fiction resembling Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector, and Borges; stories may be translations, and reprints are considered only in unusual cases. Submissions are accepted year-round by email, with a maximum of 2,000 words and no minimum. Submit in the email body, not as an attachment; simultaneous submissions are not accepted.

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