Centaur ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50, Best of the Net.

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Centaur is a quarterly literary magazine seeking bold, surprising hybrid writing of up to 400 words.

Response time info: within two months

Read the full guidelines at centaurlit.com↗

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fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: $20

Open to: Work must be original and previously unpublished; no AI-generated or violent work. Only one submission every three months, and authors must wait a year after publication before submitting again.

Centaur seeks original, previously unpublished mashups of fiction with prose poetry or nonfiction, also known as hybrid writing. Most styles are welcome, but horror is not; words only, no mixed media or multimedia. Maximum 400 words. Only one submission every three months.

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