Winter Solstice: Dead of Winter (Issue 4)
Optional Prompt: We want your dead of winter—your isolation, your frozen-in-time, your icy touch. We want the clocks to stop, to feel the danger of the cold. Give us frostbite. Give us whiteouts. Give us . . . yetis.
General Submissions
We are looking for poetry, short stories, flash, creative nonfiction, and art inspired by folklore. We love unique, weird works that leave an imprint on us. Send us stories from a haunted wood, woven in greenery and bark. Tell us of the creatures that live in your mind. Gods, ghosts, ghouls—or something completely different.
- Short stories and creative nonfiction submissions should 1001 - 5000 words.
- Flash fiction submissions should be 1000 words or less.
- Poetry submissions should include up to five poems in a single document.
- Art submissions should include up to five pieces.
Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Stories, poems, and artworks that are published elsewhere will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.
Folklore Review publishes issues biannually, and our themes center around seasons (spring/fall and summer/winter).
Micro Series
The Micro Series accepts micro fiction and micro poems for publication in Folklore Review. These calls are themed, and, unlike our general submissions, whatever you submit needs to fit the submission theme. The good news about our themes is that they're one word, so play around with them as much as you want! Five pieces will be chosen from each submission call and calls cap at 100 subs or one week after the call is made.
- Micro fiction should be 150 words or less. Micro poems should be 25 words or less.
- For either genre, you may send up to two works in one document.
- Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Micro stories and poems that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.
- Micro series calls cap at 100 submissions or one week after the call is made (so get 'em in quick)!
- Fiction submissions should 1001 - 5000 words.
- Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Nonfiction pieces that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.
- Poetry submissions should include up to five poems in a single document.
- Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Poems, and artworks that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.
- Flash fiction submissions should be 1000 words or less.
- Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Stories that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.
- Creative nonfiction submissions should be up to 5000 words.
- Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Nonfiction pieces that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.
- Art submissions should include up to five pieces.
- Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Artworks that are published elsewhere will not be accepted.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review.