Submissions - CLOSED
We will be open for short story submissions only, through the month of June 2025, for the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award.
The following guidelines are for submissions to an issue of Frazzled Lit. For competition-specific guidelines, check the top menu link for the competition.
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. 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.
All submissions to our issues are FREE, but you can leave us an optional tip. Tips will go towards the cost of us using Duosuma.
Specific Guidelines for submissions to an issue of Frazzled Lit
Short stories (up to 2,500 words)
Flash Fiction (up to two pieces of 550 words each)
Poetry (up to three pieces of 40 lines each)
CNF (up to 4,000 words)
Per reading period, writers may submit:
One short fiction
One CNF piece
Three poems
Two flash pieces
You may submit to more than one category per window.
All submissions must be made via Duosuma.
We read blind here at Frazzled Lit so please don’t include your name in the file name or document.
Cover letters are optional. A bio is optional, but if you do include one, make it max 100 words, and third-person.
We prefer documents in Times New Roman, 12 pt, double or 1.5 spaced.
Please allow up to 60 days after the closing date to inform you if we have accepted your work for publication. You will usually hear from us much sooner.
Each submission i.e. each poem and each flash fiction, should be submitted as a separate document. This will help you in the event you wish to withdraw one piece, and will help us with the review process.
Publication Rights
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 ask only that you credit us as the first publication.
What We Don’t Like?
We are an unthemed publication and happy to read work on any subject, however Frazzled Lit will not enjoy work that is 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. Animal cruelty of any sort is not acceptable to us.
It goes without saying but we’re saying it anyway:
Frazzled Lit will not tolerate work that is generated by AI.
All submissions should be made via Duosuma.
You may send any ENQUIRIES to frazzledlitmag@gmail.com