Response Time
You can expect to hear back within 21 days.
Guidelines
We are looking to add one reprint per month to our monthly magazine at Foofaraw Press
Word Limit:
- 250-5000 words
Pay Rate:
- $0.01 per word; max of $25
Language:
- English
Rights:
We request non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, and the right to publish in a limited biannual print collection and a monthly ebook edition. Any rights not used by the publisher within twelve months will return to the author. We ask that you kindly refrain from having it published again elsewhere for three months.
Requirements:
- The story must have been published previously
- The story must no longer be easily accessible for readers online (defunct mag, print-only anthology, etc.) or was originally published over three years ago.
- We do not accept multiple submissions from a single person at a time
- We do not accept work created or assisted by AI
What are we looking for
The general areas/genres of interest for fiction in foofaraw are:
- Surreal
- Speculative
- Slipstream
- Strange
- Magical Realism
- Sci-Fi
- Horror
- Humor
- Satire
- LGBTQIA+
- Mystery
- Thriller
- Noir
- Literary
- Absurdist/Experimental
We are not looking for CNF or Poetry for this reprint call.
Mainstream authors we enjoy include: Robin Sloan, Cory Doctorow, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Tamsyn Muir, Ray Nayler, Martha Wells, Corey J. White and fiction from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Uncanny Magazine, The New Yorker, Flash Fiction Online, GigaNotoSaurus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and The Paris Review.
Magazine inspirations come from the likes of: Believer, The New Yorker, NY and London Review of Books, Real Review, Delayed Gratification, Cereal, New York, Monocle, The Modernist, and The Economist.
The anthology is an annual anthology (released in print and ebook) based on the definition of “foofaraw.” Every piece must align to one of these two definitions:
- a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.
- an excessive amount of decoration or ornamentation, as on a piece of clothing, a building, etc.
Response Time
We aim to respond to all submissions within 60 days, but all decisions will be made and writers will be notified by April 30th at the latest.
Word Limit:
- 500-5000 words
Pay Rate:
- Fiction: $0.01 per word
- Poetry: $5.00
Language:
- English
Rights:
We request first serial rights, non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, and the right to publish in print and ebook. Any rights not used by the publisher within twelve months will return to the author.
Requirements:
- We do not accept multiple submissions from a single person at a time
- We do not accept previously published works
- We do not accept work created or assisted by AI
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed
Fiction
The general areas/genres of interest for fiction in foofaraw are:
- Surreal
- Speculative
- Slipstream
- Strange
- Magical Realism
- Sci-Fi
- Fantasy
- Literary
- LGBTQIA+
- Horror
- Mystery
- Noir
- Absurdist
- Experimental
Info
Quotidian Bagatelle is an experimental micro imprint from Foofaraw Press looking to publish 365 micro stories, poems, creative non-fiction, or art pieces in 2026 (and maybe beyond...). Art pieces should be small; poems should be short, under 20 lines; prose should be under 250 words.
Fiction
We are looking for short stories under 250 words in the following genres:
- Speculative
- Magical Realism
- Slipstream
- Horror
- Humor
- SciFi
- Fantasy
- Surreal
- Absurdist
- Experimental
- and anything else that fits the vibe
Creative non-fiction
We are looking for short explanatory essays, personal essays, memoirs, columns, articles, etc., under 250 words.
Poetry
We are looking for poems under 20 lines or 5 stanzas. We are not looking for typical ABAB or ABCB or AABB rhyme schemes.
- Free verse
- Concrete
- Found poetry
- Prose poetry
- Elegy
- Zuihitsu
- Haiku/Senryu
- Haibun
- Tanka
- Villanelle
- Epigram
- Glosa
- Ghazal
- Triolet
Art
Minimal, small, and weird
Guidelines
Response time
You can expect to hear back within 21 days—feel free to reach out or check the status of your submission at any time.
Word Limit:
- 50-250 words for prose
- 20 lines or 5 stanzas for poetry
Pay Rate:
- Flat rate of $1.00
Language:
- English
Rights:
We request first serial rights, non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights, and the right to publish in a limited biannual print collection. Any rights not used by the publisher within twelve months will return to the author.
Requirements:
- We do not accept work created or assisted by AI.
- We do accept simultaneous submissions for this call (please withdraw immediately if accepted elsewhere.)
- You can have three active submissions at a time.
- We do accept reprints, but are unable to pay for them at this time, and they must have been published over two years ago.