Call for Submissions: foofaraw

 

General Guidelines

• Word Limit: Main Digital Zine 250-7500

• The Anthology 500-5000

• Novelette Guidelines 7500-15000

• Op-eds 750-1250

Pay Rate:

Fiction: $0.02 per word; up to $50
Poetry: $1 per line; up to $25
Op-ed/Satire/Cartoon: $15.00 

Language: English

Rights:

We request first serial rights and non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights. Any rights not used by the publisher within twelve months will return to the author.

Authors always own their writing and can take it and do whatever they'd like with it. We just get to publish it and share it with the world.

Requirements:

• We do not accept multiple submissions from a single person at a time (within a single submission type)

• We do not accept work created or assisted by AI.

What are we looking for

Fiction
Comics
Humor/Satire
Poetry
Op-eds
and anything else that fits the vibe

Fiction

The general areas/genres of interest for fiction in foofaraw are:

• Magical Realism

• Speculative Fiction

• Sci-Fi

• Fantasy

• Literary

• LGBTQIA+

• Horror

• Mystery

• Noir

• Odd / Surreal / Absurdist / Experimental

Mainstream authors we enjoy include: Robin Sloan, Cory Doctorow, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Tamsyn Muir, Ray Nayler, Martha Wells, Corey J. White, and fiction from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Uncanny Magazine, The New Yorker, Flash Fiction Online, GigaNotoSaurus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and The Paris Review.

Serialized works are welcome.

Magazine inspirations include Believer, The New Yorker, NY and London Review of Books, Real Review, Delayed Gratification, Cereal, New York, Monocle, The Modernist, and The Economist.

Recurring column ideas are welcome.

More information and submission portal here.