Night Picnic

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Night Picnic is a journal publishing speculative-leaning literature, including fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and letters, with submissions handled through Submittable.

Response time info: ~71 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder

Read the full guidelines at nightpicnicpress.submittable.com↗

Submission calls

fictionFantasyHorrorEligibility requirements

Open to: Submitters must be 18 or over.

Accepts novels, novellas, plays, short stories, flash stories, and adult fairytales; fantasies with multidimensional metaphysical meanings are preferred but not required. No word-count limit; submissions must be complete, in English, and previously unpublished.

nonfictionEligibility requirements

Open to: Submitters must be 18 or over.

Accepts interviews, essays including popular science essays, and letters to the editors. Political essays and memoirs are not published; there is no word-count limit.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirements

Open to: Submitters must be 18 or over.

Poetry submissions are welcome, especially work that is strange, dark, jubilant, complex, scary, mystical, or multidimensional. No word-count limit; work must be complete, in English, and previously unpublished.

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