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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
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PFN – Call for Submissions to The Stinging Fly
Guidelines:
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Work must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
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Only work submitted through our Submittable account will be considered. Submittable is free to use, and there is no fee to submit your work to us.
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We currently accept submissions in the following four categories: short fiction; novel extracts; non-fiction; poetry. Writers may only submit work to us under one category per submission period. Graphic fiction and non-fiction submissions are welcome.
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Your work should always be just as long (or as short) as it needs to be. If you are sending us a novel extract, please don’t send us your full novel! Just a chapter or a section or a story-length passage will suffice, so long as it can be enjoyed as a standalone piece.
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For general poetry submissions, you may send up to 3 poems. Your poems should be submitted together in one single file.
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Featured Poets: In each issue we publish a number of poems (usually 5 or 6) by a poet who is working seriously towards a first collection. To be considered, you should already have had work published in several other journals and magazines. We welcome poets who have previously had poems appear in The Stinging Fly. Please send 6-8 previously unpublished poems together in a single file. If we want to see more, we will get back to you. If submitting for the Featured Poet slot, there’s no need to make a separate general poetry submission. We will also consider individual poems within your Featured Poet submission for publication.