Fiction
The Bombay Literary Magazine
Closed
- Length
- 2,000 to 5,000 words
- Pay
- 10000 INR flat
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
The Bombay Literary Magazine publishes English-language short fiction of 2,000 to 5,000 words three times a year and is currently closed to submissions, with writers who submitted for Issue 65 to be notified after November 15, 2026. It caps each category at 400 submissions, allows simultaneous submissions, considers only unpublished work, and stories do not have to be anonymized. It offers an honorarium of INR 10,000 per published contribution.
Literary
- Languages
- English
- Anonymous reading
- Not required
- Query after
- 42 days
- AI policy
- The Bombay Literary Magazine does not knowingly accept or publish AI-generated work; it wishes to consider works written entirely by human writers.
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