Fiction Attic Press accepts submissions of flash fiction, short stories, flash memoir, personal essays, novellas-in-flash, and sketchbook stories. Beginning in December of 2022, we also accept craft essays and personal essays on writing for our On Writing series.
If we accept your work, we will publish it on our substack site, FictionAttic.substack.com. Some stories will also be published on our legacy site, fictionattic.com.
Your submission may also be considered for publication in a print anthology. Please see below for submission categories and be sure to use the appropriate submission form. We look forward to reading your work.
We accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere while you're waiting to hear from us, just let us know. We'll be happy for you!
Payment: We pay $15 for flash fiction, $10 for a set of micro-fictions, $20 for short stories and essays over 1,500 words, $20 for sketchbook stories, $25 for craft essays, and $75 for novellas-in-flash.
We charge small submission fees to help us pay for Submittable and to pay every writer we publish. Beginning in 2024, every submitter who pays a submission fee will receive a complimentary one-month paid subscription to Fiction Attic. Writers who submit a novella-in-flash will receive a complimentary 3-month paid subscription. (To get your complimentary paid subscription, please opt in by checking the appropriate box in your submission form).
*Rights:
Non-Exclusive Online and Audio Rights: We require exclusive electronic rights to the work for 3 months and non-exclusive rights indefinitely so that we can include your work in our online archives. We publish your work simultaneously at fictionattic.com and fictionattic.substack.com. We may also publish audio of your story (read and produced by Fiction Attic Press) on our substack site.
Print Rights: We require non-exclusive print rights, so that we can publish the work later in our anthologies.
All other rights remain yours. You can publish the same work online, in print, or in any other way you choose. We only ask that you wait until three months after the initial publication to publish it elsewhere.
*For novellas-in-flash, please see separate rights guidelines on the submission page.
Fiction Attic Press seeks craft essays and personal essays on the writing life for our On Writing series.
Essays should be 1,200-3,000 words. We are seeking in-depth essays that illuminate some aspect of narrative craft, the daily life of a writer, or writing as a longtime career.
Payment is $25.
Fiction Attic Press seeks thoughtful, well-written essays and short memoir that surprise, delight, and inform us. We like free-ranging associations, unusual avenues, startling revelations.
When you submit your work, you acknowledge that we may publish it either online, in print, or both.
As of June, 2019, we pay $20 for each full-length essay we select for publication. We primarily publish essays of 2,000 - 5,000 words.
For flash memoir (1,000 words or fewer), we pay $10.
Submit a series of sketches consisting of three to seven individual sketches. The series should tell a story. We enjoy sketches that include a small amount of text, but you should interpret "sketchbook series" however you see fit.
Submit one short story of 1500 to 3500 words. Stories are considered for online publication online on our website, fictionattic.com, and on our Substack.
Is your story 1,000 words or fewer? Use our FLASH FICTION submission form instead.
Payment: We pay $20 per published short story.
Accepted stories may also appear in future print anthologies.
We seek to help authors reach new audiences. After publication, you retain the rights to publish your story in other journals or in your own book.
Simultaneous submissions are fine. Just let us know if your story is accepted elsewhere.
Use this form ONLY if we have written to you requesting that you send more of your work. Any submissions through this form that have not been solicited will be automatically deleted.