Phantom Drift

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Phantom Drift is an annual literary journal devoted to fabulist, fantastic, surreal, and new-weird literature, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that explore imaginative alternatives to conventional realism.

Read the full guidelines at phantomdrift.org↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorOpens Jan 1, 2027

The journal seeks fabulist flash fiction and short stories favoring the unusual, myth, fable, unreal ambience, or surreal and unexplained events; submissions are 250–6,500 words. The stated submission period is January 1–April 30, and the live submissions page currently reports no open calls.

nonfictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorOpens Jan 1, 2027

The journal seeks academic or non-academic essays, critical studies, and interviews about New Fabulism, slipstream, new weird, magical realism, fabulist, and cross-genre fantastic literature; attempts to write fabulist nonfiction are not requested. The stated submission period is January 1–April 30, and the live submissions page currently reports no open calls.

poetryScience FictionFantasyHorrorOpens Jan 1, 2027

The journal seeks unpublished poetry in the new fabulist tradition, including surrealism, magical realism, fantastique, bizarrerie, new weird, slipstream, gothic, supernatural, steampunk, and science fiction; submit 3–5 poems. The stated submission period is January 1–April 30, and the live submissions page currently reports no open calls.

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