phoebe is now accepting submissions for its winter 2025 print issue, 54.1.
The phoebe fiction team is looking for micro fiction, flash fiction, and short stories that deliver an honest, affecting, and human reading experience. We find that fiction is at its best when it takes risks and pursues authenticity over convention. We encourage experimentation with modality and crave complexity, and we believe that part of what makes a piece excellent is its voice. We eagerly welcome BIPOC, (dis)abled, LGBTQIA+, and non-Western perspectives. Please send us your work that has soul and urgency— the drafts that push narrative form and tell uniquely powerful stories. Pieces published in phoebe are often briskly paced (fewer than 5,000 words), but longer works of exceptional quality can also find a home here.
General Guidelines:
- All entries should include a cover letter with the submission’s title and word count as well as the author’s contact information (name, mailing address, and email address) and a brief bio.
- We accept simultaneous submissions. However, if your submission is accepted by another publication or otherwise is no longer available, please use Submittable to withdraw it as soon as possible.
- You may submit multiple entries.
- Please submit only one short story or up to three flash fictions (works of fewer than 1,000 words) per entry.
- We do not consider previously published work or reprints.
- Please submit your work in standard manuscript format and as a Microsoft Word document (or compatible).
- We do not accept submissions through e-mail or physical mail. All submissions must be made through our Submittable forms.
- More submissions guidelines here: www.phoebejournal.com/submissions/
SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission. We do not have a strict word limit for prose; however, fiction longer than 4,000 words will need to be extraordinary.
PAYMENT: $30 per accepted story. One copy of the print issue upon publication.
