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, plays, interviews, and letters.

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fictionFantasyHorrorEligibility requirements

Open to: Submitters must be 18 or over.

Accepts novels, novellas, plays, short stories, flash stories, and adult fairytales, especially strange, dark, mystical, or multidimensional fantasies. No word-count limit; unfinished work is not considered. Heavy science fiction and pornography are not published.

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.

poetryFantasyHorrorEligibility requirements

Open to: Submitters must be 18 or over.

Accepts poetry, particularly work that is strange, dark, jubilant, complex, confusing, scary, mystical, or multidimensional. No word-count limit; unfinished work is not considered.

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