Fiction
Blackbird
No closing date May close early
- Length
- No word limit
- Pay
- 200.00 USD flat
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Blackbird, VCU's online journal, pays a flat $200 per story and asks writers to query before sending prose over 8,000 words, with no hard length cap. Submissions are currently open, though the journal reserves the right to close early when it reaches its maximum number of submissions.
- Languages
- English
- AI policy
- Blackbird does not accept work that has been produced or altered by AI in any way.
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