Fiction
The Muleskinner Journal
- Length
- Up to 5,000 words
- Pay
- Unpaid
- Fee
- Optional tip
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
The Muleskinner Journal is an online literary publication issued as quarterly digital collections; submissions for Journal Twenty, themed "Stripes & Plaids," are open until December 13. Its fiction call takes flash or micro fiction of up to 1,000 words each (1–3 stories) and short stories or excerpts of up to 5,000 words, previously unpublished work only, one submission per issue, sent free through Submittable with a voluntary tip jar; it does not currently pay contributors, simultaneous submissions are allowed, and submitters may inquire after a month.
- Resubmissions
- Not allowed
- Anonymous reading
- Not required
- Query after
- 30 days
- AI policy
- The guidelines tell submitters not to use AI, in the page's words: "do not do that silly and shameful AI thing."
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