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Short Fiction

The Orange & Bee

Closed
Length
Up to 4,000 words
Pay
0.08 USD per word
Fee
Not stated
Simultaneous
Not allowed
Reprints
Original only

What they accept

The Orange & Bee publishes original fiction that engages with the history of fairy tales, stretching, expanding, testing, subverting, or challenging the fairy-tale tradition. Short fiction is up to 4,000 words and pays $US0.08 per word; flash fiction up to 1,000 words pays a flat $US80. The next stated submission window is 1 January to 14 January 2027 (AEST), via Duosuma only.

Fantasy
AI policy
We do not accept or publish work that has been written with, or with the assistance of, LLMs such as ChatGPT, PerplexityAI, etc.

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