Witcraft is designed to provide a home for skilful writing that is brief, humorous and engaging, with the emphasis on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense.
We’re looking for fiction, nonfiction and poetry that is founded on wit, humour, puns, absurdity and irony. Put away the sledgehammer, the cliches, the tired tropes and the nastiness.
What we won’t publish are:
- work that is gratuitously offensive. You know exactly what we mean, so don’t try us.
- jokes and/or comedy routines. This is a site dedicated to longer written humour.
Hard sells will include the list below, which will no doubt grow longer with experience:
- If you think excretion or genitalia or four-letter words are inherently funny, this is not the place for you.
- Current political satire, including fake news.
- Shaggy dog stories (unless they’re about shaggy dogs)
- Snarky diatribes
Length: Submissions are limited to between 200 and 1000 words of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Submissions outside those guidelines will be deleted unread.
Format: Use a readable font. Times New Roman 12 double spaced is a guideline.
Reprints: Reprints are acceptable provided any rights have reverted to you. Include details of where your piece was previously published, date of publication and, where possible, a link.
Rights: We seek no rights but please acknowledge Witcraft as first publisher in any later publications. Please note that if we publish your story that will count as published by almost all other outlets and will rule you out of submitting to them. Just sayin’.
Simultaneous Submissions: Fine. You’d be mad not to.
Submission Fee: Not a brass razoo.
Payment: All submissions accepted for publication are automatically eligible for one of 3 prizes for the month submitted. First prize A$50, second prize A$20, third prize A$10, payable via Paypal only.
Response Time: Our aim is to respond within 2 weeks but usually within 2 days.
How to submit: Submit via Duotrope Witcraft Submission Manager | Duosuma by Duotrope
Publication Schedule: Chosen pieces will be published daily.
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