Fiction
Barrelhouse
Closed
- Length
- No word limit
- Pay
- 50 USD flat
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Barrelhouse publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction bridging literary writing and pop culture, and its submissions page currently lists its print issue and online issues as not open for submissions. Its general guidelines state there is no maximum length, although it tends to publish work shorter than 8,000 words, and it pays $50 to each contributor to its print and online issues plus two contributor copies.
Literary
- Query after
- 180 days
- AI policy
- Barrelhouse states that anyone who uses AI to write something they submit to it is a loser and that it wants nothing to do with them.
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