Literary Journal

Small World City

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About the magazine

Small World City is an online literary and arts magazine founded in 2019 with the aim of fostering a global community of writers and artists. It publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art, with a particular interest in work that engages with themes of place, identity, and cross-cultural exchange. The magazine is committed to showcasing diverse voices and perspectives, and to providing a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists.

Editorial focus

Small World City is a Dhaka, Bangladesh-based online literary magazine looking for speculative stories—in the very different forms they take. They publish fiction , nonfiction , poetry , art , and philosophy. They are looking for the strange, the irreverent, the niche, the stories that eschew reality. At this time, they are only considering submissions from Bangladeshi and POC authors.

PoetryFictionCreative NonfictionTranslation

Submitting your work

Reading periodJan 1 to Dec 31

Reading feeNo

PaymentNo payment

Response time3 to 6 months

Simultaneous submissionsYes

Unsolicited submissionsYes

Small World City accepts submissions year-round via their website. They welcome poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify them immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. They aim to respond within 3-6 months. Before submitting, familiarize yourself with the magazine's aesthetic by reading past issues, which are available online. They appreciate work that is polished, original, and resonates with their mission of global storytelling.

We are looking for speculative stories—this is a broad, almost unlimited category entailing anything that pushes back against realist fiction. How much you want to push is wholly up to you. We welcome entirely imagined realms, as well as worlds precisely like our own, barring one small change. Give us the unnatural, the preternatural, the antinatural, however way it comes.

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