Propagule

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction.

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Propagule is an independently run literary magazine publishing experimental, transgressive, and surreal fiction alongside flash fiction and nonfiction.

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fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 15Pays: $5 per 1,000 words for the first 2,000 words and $10 per 1,000 words thereafter, up to $30.

Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.

Open for Issue 10 submissions due December 15, 2026. Seeks atypical, unexpected, unreal, experimental, transgressive, and speculative-surrealist fiction with narrative development; science fiction and fantasy are welcome. Submissions should be 1,500–10,000 words, though flash is accepted, preferably as multiple related pieces. Pays $5 per 1,000 words for the first 2,000 words and $10 per 1,000 thereafter, up to $30.

flashHorrorLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: Not stated.

Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.

Open on a rolling basis for strange and surreal flash fiction for the Motes page. Submissions are 250–750 words.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: Not stated.

Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.

Accepts reviews of new literary works and albums, plus analytic essays and creative nonfiction, with a focus on transgressive, stylistically or conceptually novel, and non-mainstream content. Works are published on a rolling basis on the Musings page.

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