Propagule
Open now for fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction.
Last checkedPropagule is an independently run literary magazine publishing experimental, transgressive, and surreal fiction alongside flash fiction and nonfiction.
Response time info: ~68 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder
Read the full guidelines at propagule.co↗Submission calls
Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.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.
Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.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.
Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.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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