Fiction
Crow & Cross Keys
Closed
- Length
- Up to 5,000 words
- Pay
- Unpaid
- Fee
- No fee
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Reprints welcome
What they accept
Submissions closed on 1 November 2026 and will reopen in early 2027, with the exact date to be confirmed. The magazine seeks flash fiction up to 1,000 words and short stories of 1,001 to 5,000 words with a speculative edge, including gothic, weird fiction, horror and folk and fairy tales.
GothicHorrorLiteraryOther / not listedWeird & Slipstream
- Resubmissions
- Not allowed
- Anonymous reading
- Not required
- Query after
- 56 days
- AI policy
- We will not knowingly publish AI-generated writing, and we request that this is not submitted to us.
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