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Night Picnic

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About the magazine

Night Picnic is an independent literary and arts organization that operates as a roving platform for experimental writing, translation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Founded in the early 2010s by a collective of writers and artists, it began as a reading series in unconventional spaces—parks, rooftops, and galleries—before evolving into a press and online journal. Its core mission is to foster work that resists easy categorization, emphasizing process, risk, and the communal experience of art-making. The organization takes its name from the idea of a gathering that is both casual and deliberate, where the unexpected is welcomed. Rather than adhering to a fixed aesthetic, Night Picnic curates around thematic provocations, often inviting artists to respond to prompts or constraints. It has published emerging and established voices side by side, with a particular interest in hybrid texts, performance scores, and visual poetry. The organization maintains a lean, collaborative structure, relying on volunteer labor and periodic fundraising to sustain its activities.

Editorial focus

Night Picnic is a literary journal that publishes novels, novellas, plays, short and flash stories, fairytales for adults, poetry, interviews, essays (including popular science essays), letters to the editors, and artwork.

PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction

Submitting your work

Reading periodJan 1 to Dec 31
Reading feeNo
PaymentContributor copies only
Response time3 to 6 months
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsYes

Night Picnic accepts submissions for its journal and occasional print anthologies through periodic open calls announced on its website and social media. They seek work that is formally inventive, emotionally resonant, and willing to take risks. Before submitting, read past issues to understand the range of what they publish—there is no single style, but there is a consistent openness to the strange and the sincere. Include a brief cover letter that contextualizes your work, and be patient: responses can take several months due to the volunteer-run nature of the organization. Simultaneous submissions are generally accepted, but please notify them promptly if your work is placed elsewhere.

Night Picnic is a curated journal of literature and art devoted to work that is strange, luminous, uncanny, and emotionally resonant. We welcome the surreal, the lyrical, the dark, the jubilant, and the genre-bending, but do not consider straightforward memoir, hard science fiction, political essays, or explicit pornography. Writers must be at least eighteen years old to submit.

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