SKUMMEL

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, and poetry.

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SKUMMEL is a magazine seeking dark, unsettling, absurdist, and experimental flash fiction, short fiction, and poetry, with no payment but a digital copy for contributors.

Response time info: about two weeks, often sooner

Read the full guidelines at skummel.net↗

Submission calls

fictionPays: digital copy of the issue

Short fiction (1,000–5,000 words, longer considered if exceptional); dark, unsettling, absurdist, and experimental literature; original work and reprints accepted; no AI-written/assisted work.

flashPays: digital copy of the issue

Flash fiction under 1,000 words; dark, unsettling, absurdist, and experimental literature; original work and reprints accepted; no AI-written/assisted work.

poetryPays: digital copy of the issue

Poetry up to 10 pages; dark, unsettling, absurdist, and experimental literature; original work and reprints accepted; no AI-written/assisted work.

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