Fiction
Bayou Magazine
Closes 15 Dec 2026
- Length
- Up to 7,500 words
- Pay
- 150 USD flat
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Bayou Magazine is a literary magazine housed at the University of New Orleans. Its fiction call takes previously unpublished stories in English of up to 7,500 words from September 15 to December 15 through Submittable, and pays $150 for stories over 3,000 words and $100 for shorter stories.
Literary
- Languages
- English
- Anonymous reading
- Not required
- Query after
- 150 days
- AI policy
- Bayou Magazine publishes only original, entirely human-produced content; it reserves the right to check for AI usage between acceptance and publication and to withdraw offers of publication from work determined to be largely shaped, constructed, or imagined by AI or other LLM systems.
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