Joyland ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Best American Short Stories, Journey Prize Anthology.
Open now for fiction.
Last checkedJoyland is a literary journal publishing short fiction across multiple timezones, with a separate novella program through Joyland Editions.
Response time info: ~102 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder
Read the full guidelines at joylandmagazine.com↗Submission calls
fictionLiteraryCloses Nov 30
Short fiction submissions are accepted from September 1 through November 30, 2026.
fictionLiteraryOpens Aug 1, 2027
Joyland Editions accepts novella submissions from August 1 through September 30, 2026.
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