Dead Fern has a taste for the sad, dark, peculiar, and sometimes disturbing. If you've found your work hard to place in other publications, we encourage you to send it our way.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your fucking worst
- Response time: 60 days after submission*/Editor reported data?*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data?*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Processs
Oleada
Cover letter
No formal cover letter needed, but please include a short, 3rd person bio in the space provided–50 to 75 words max.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please incorporate all works into a single document. Your work should be submitted as a .docx, .doc, or .pdf.
Author's rights
All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If a piece that is accepted through us is published elsewhere in the future, (either in a collection, another journal, or elsewhere) we ask that you acknowledge Dead Fern Press in your publication.
Additional info
About
Dead Fern has a taste for the sad, dark, peculiar, and sometimes disturbing. If you've found your work hard to place in other publications, we encourage you to send it our way. Independently run out of Michigan, we publish poetry, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction regularly throughout the ye...
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2021
Country
US
Masthead
Megan Cassiday
Editor-in-Chief
Rami Obeid
Fiction and Poetry Reader