Guidelines
WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS.
We hope to reopen for submissions for Issue 2 in March 2025.
All submissions are FREE.
We are an unthemed litmag.
We want previously unpublished pieces however we will happily accept work that has been shared on social media or on personal blogs.
Please read the SPECIFIC GUIDELINES before you submit.
Here at Frazzled Lit - we get it. We know how it is. We’re all working hard and we all doubt we’re good enough. We want you to know we understand. YOU are all that we are looking for.
For the first issue, Frazzled Lit wants your freshest Poetry, Prose, CNF and Flash.
We want the most creative and resonant pieces of writing you have, the pieces that fizz on the page, the ones that you can’t stop thinking about. If it’s one that you’ve been writing in your head, put it in print today. We love stories that hum with life. Fiction that resonates with relatable content. We want real experiences with the honesty and the truth that only you can write. You are enough. You ARE Frazzled Lit!
Specific Guidelines
Short Fiction (up to 2,500 words*)
Flash Fiction (up to 500 words*)
Poetry (up to 25 lines)
CNF (up to 4,000 words*)
*word count wiggle room = +50 (we know!)
Per reading period, writers may submit:
One short fiction,
One CNF piece,
Three poems
Two flash pieces.
You may submit to more than one genre per window but we ask that you only submit once to each.
Please submit to each genre in a separate document with [genre] submission, [title] in the subject of the email.
Example: Fiction Submission, Your Amazing Story
Poetry Submission, Your Sizzling Poetry
We read blind here at Frazzled Lit so please don’t include your name in the file name or document.
Cover letters are optional, but it's nice to know who is submitting to us. (We don’t require an explanation of your work, we want it to speak for itself.)
Please include a 100 word third-person bio.
We’d appreciate word counts but won’t lose sleep if you forget.
Please feel free to use any readable font. We would prefer a 12pt size please.
Please allow up to 30 days after the closing date to inform you if we have accepted your work for publication. You will usually hear from us much sooner.
Frazzled Lit holds first serial publication rights for three months after publication. This means that by accepting publication, writers agree not to publish, authorise or permit the publication of, any part of the material, for three months following first publication by Frazzled Lit. For reprints, we only ask that you credit us as the first publication. Please withdraw your work if your story is accepted elsewhere, and huge congratulations in advance!
What We Don’t Like?
We are an unthemed publication and VERY happy to read work on any subject however, unless it is written in strict context, Frazzled Lit will not enjoy any work that is flagrantly racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, ableist or is hateful towards any person or group. Further, we do not wish to read anything that is gratuitously violent or erotic or contains excessive gore or animal cruelty.
It goes without saying but we’re saying it anyway:
Frazzled Lit will not tolerate work that is generated by AI.
Please send any ENQUIRIES to