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SORRY, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS AT THIS TIME

The Absurdist is looking to publish your oddest, most peculiar flash fiction and illustrations. Let it be farcical, let it be unsettling, let it be both. For content we ask only that your work be cohesively and creatively nonsensical. If you’re interested, check out some previous issues, review our guidelines below, and submit away.

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Fiction guidelines:

  • 250-1000 words per piece, roughly.
  • We accept up to three pieces at a time. Please wait to hear back from us about your first submissions before submitting again.
  • Please include with your submission:
    • Name/pseudonym
    • Email address
    • City of residence
    • Titles of submitted pieces
  • Simultaneous submissions okay, assuming you let us know promptly if a work is accepted elsewhere.
  • Previously unpublished work only.
  • *If you are submitting both fiction and illustrations, please include all files on one email.

Illustration guidelines:

  • All mediums accepted, though each piece must be submitted in JPEG.
  • Black and white only.
  • We accept up to five pieces at a time. Please wait to hear back from us about your first submissions before submitting again.
  • Please include with your submission:
    • Name/pseudonym
    • Email address
    • City of residence
    • Titles or captions of submitted pieces
  • Simultaneous submissions okay, assuming you let us know promptly if a work is accepted elsewhere.
  • Previously unpublished work only.
  • *If you are submitting both fiction and illustrations, please include all files on one email.

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Please submit your work to: absurdistmag@gmail.com

SORRY, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS AT THIS TIME

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Things to know:

We accept work from all races, religions, countries of origin, sexual orientations, and genders.

Free speech is essential to art, and making others uncomfortable is essential to art, but The Absurdist will not publish hateful content or any work that intends to intimidate others. That is not art; that is bullying. If you must create these things, please submit them elsewhere.

Should your submission be accepted: Authors and artists retain all rights to their work after publication, though we may repost your work on the internet (with proper acknowledgement to you, of course), or use it to help promote the mag, or reprint it in some future anthology-type thing.