Submission

Guidelines

General Submissions

We are looking for poetry, short stories, flash, creative nonfiction, and art inspired by folklore. We love unique, weird works that leave an imprint on us. Send us stories from a haunted wood, woven in greenery and bark. Tell us of the creatures that live in your mind. Gods, ghosts, ghouls—or something completely different.

  • Short stories and creative nonfiction submissions should 1001 - 5000 words.

  • Flash fiction submissions should be 1000 words or less.

  • Poetry submissions should include up to five poems in a single document.

  • Art submissions should include up to five pieces.

Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Stories, poems, and artworks that are published elsewhere will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review. To do so, visit the contact page and inform the editors of your wish to withdraw, including your name and the title of the piece(s) in question.

Folklore Review publishes issues biannually, and our themes center around seasons (spring/fall and summer/winter).

Micro Series

The Micro Series accepts micro fiction and micro poems for monthly publication in Folklore Review. These calls are themed, and, unlike our general submissions, whatever you submit needs to fit the submission theme. The good news is that our themes are only one word, so play around with them as much as you want! Five pieces will be chosen from each submission call and calls cap at 100 subs or one week after the call is made.

  • Micro fiction should be 150 words or less. Micro poems should be 25 words or less.

  • For either genre, you may send up to two works in one document.

  • Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Micro stories and poems that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.

  • Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.

  • Micro series calls cap at 100 submissions or one week after the call is made (so get 'em in quick)!

The Nitty-gritty

Rights

We ask for first publishing rights, meaning your work should not have appeared elsewhere prior to publishing with us.

We ask for your work not to appear anywhere else for 30 days after being published with us. After that, go wild!

We may create audio recordings of your work in the future for accessibility purposes. If this is the case, we will reach out to you, asking if you would like to provide us with a recording of yourself reading your work for our website. Otherwise, we may create audio of your work.

We may create anthologies in the future and will reach out to you if your work is selected for inclusion. You can say “no” to this if you want to, but . . . anthologies are cool, right?

 Compensation

We are not a paying market at this time, but we hope to become one in the future because we are obsessed with our contributors and want to shower you with cash.    

Nominations

We do nominate for Best of the Net.