Fiction
Defenestration
Closes 5 Dec 2026
- Length
- Up to 4,000 words
- Pay
- Unpaid
- Simultaneous
- Not allowed
- Reprints
- Reprints welcome
What they accept
Defenestration is a literary magazine dedicated to humor, publishing short stories three times a year; the current fiction reading period runs September 20 through December 5, 2026, for the December 20 issue. It takes one humorous story of up to 4,000 words at a time by email, accepts reprints of fiction, prohibits simultaneous submissions, responds within about four weeks, and is not a paying market.
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- AI policy
- Defenestration does not accept any submissions aided by or wholly created using AI, including AI use for brainstorming, critiques, editorial services, research, or image generation; there are no exceptions.
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