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Fictional Café

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About the magazine

Fictional Café is a literary and arts organization that began as a reading series in a borrowed storefront and has since evolved into a small press and online journal. Its founding ethos centers on the idea of the café as a democratic, conversational space where experimental work can be tested in front of a live audience. The organization prioritizes work that values voice, risk, and the unfinished over polish and marketability, and it maintains a deliberately modest scale to keep editorial attention personal and sustained.

Editorial focus

The Fictional Café is a nonprofit literary magazine that publishes short fiction (short stories, novel excerpts), poetry, fine art, audiobooks, and audio dramas. They also offer a two-year Residency Program for poets and fiction writers who excel in their field and demonstrate a strong desire to take their writing careers to the next level. Residents’ work will be featured prominently on their site and in their anthology.

PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction

Submitting your work

Reading periodJan 1 to Dec 31
Reading feeNo
PaymentNo payment
Response timeLess than 3 months
Simultaneous submissionsNo
Unsolicited submissionsYes

Read several past issues before submitting to understand the range of work the editors favor. They respond well to writing that feels spoken rather than performed, and to visual art that retains a handmade or provisional quality. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw promptly if placed elsewhere. Include a brief note about how the work might function in a live or intimate setting, as the café ethos remains central to their editorial decisions.

The Fictional Café seeks submissions from writers and poets of all different backgrounds in all styles and genres to celebrate the creativity of the world and the unifying power that an online café can foster.

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