Strange Pilgrims

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction.

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Strange Pilgrims is an independent, reader-supported literary magazine publishing surreal, philosophical, experimental, and emotionally vivid fiction and nonfiction.

Response time info: About 4 months; $10 fast response within 4 weeks

Read the full guidelines at strangepilgrims.com↗

Submission calls

fictionFantasyLiteraryPays: $200 per short story, paid via PayPal within one week of publication.

Short stories up to 5,000 words; surreal, speculative, fabulist, experimental, and slow-burn realist work is welcome. Submissions are always free for general categories.

flashFantasyLiteraryPays: $50 per flash piece, paid via PayPal within one week of publication.

Flash fiction under 1,000 words; surreal, speculative, fabulist, experimental, and emotionally vivid work is welcome. Submissions are always free for general categories.

flashLiteraryPays: $50 per flash piece, paid via PayPal within one week of publication.

Flash CNF under 1,000 words, including lyrical, fragmented, experimental, and voice-driven nonfiction. Submissions are always free for general categories.

nonfictionLiteraryPays: $200 per essay, paid via PayPal within one week of publication.

Essays and narrative nonfiction up to 5,000 words, including unhinged, lyrical, fragmented, voice-driven, experimental, critical, and realist work. Submissions are always free for general categories.

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