Mystery Tribune

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Mystery Tribune is a crime, mystery, noir, and suspense publication accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions for its online, mobile, and print editions.

Response time info: Within 12 months, generally within 24 months, though it may extend to two years

Read the full guidelines at mysterytribune.com↗

Submission calls

fictionMysteryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Pays: Honorarium for fiction accepted for the print edition; amount is discussed upon acceptance. Online publication payment is not stated.

Open to: Work must be written in English and previously unpublished; translations must include the original text.

Accepts original, previously unpublished English fiction for print and online editions; most submissions are 3,000–6,000 words, though there is no set minimum or maximum and submissions over 10,000 words are unlikely to be read. Crime, mystery, noir, suspense, thriller, and related fiction are appropriate.

flashMysteryHorrorEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Pays: Generally unpaid.

Open to: Work must be written in English and previously unpublished.

Accepts daily/flash fiction with dark underlying themes or crime, mystery, noir, and suspense stories for its website and mobile apps. Flash fiction is generally unpaid. All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished.

nonfictionMysteryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Pays: Unsolicited contributions are unpaid; commissioned nonfiction for print may receive an honorarium, with the amount discussed upon acceptance.

Open to: Work must be written in English and previously unpublished.

Accepts daily online nonfiction essays, stories, interviews, and reviews about mystery and suspense; pitches or submissions are preferred to pieces written on spec, and submissions should be under 2,000 words. Unsolicited nonfiction is unpaid and is not currently accepted for print except when commissioned.

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