Literary Garage
Open now for fiction and flash fiction.
Last updatedLiterary Garage is a fee-free online magazine seeking gritty, hard-edged fiction in flash, short, and story formats, but is not currently accepting poetry or nonfiction.
Response time info: 3-4 week turnaround (query after 5 weeks)
Read the full guidelines at literarygarage.com↗Submission calls
SHORTS: 1000-2000 words; STORIES: 2000–3500 words (longer by query); gritty, hard-edged fiction with hints of noir, crime, gothic, old-world toughness, western, horror, or unique zombies; prefers stories outside easily definable genres; no AI-written work.
FLASH: less than 1000 words; gritty, hard-edged fiction with hints of noir, crime, gothic, old-world toughness, western, horror, or unique zombies; prefers stories outside easily definable genres; no AI-written work.
Non-Fiction, Essays, and Book Reviews have been shelved for the balance of 2026 while focus is on fiction.
POETRY: At present there are no calls for poetry.
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