Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims, norka keller, Justine Payton, aliyah, Kevin Sandefur, Lily Kovacs, Glen Creed, Jefferson Navicky, Margaret Jameson, The Obsidian, Shannan Mann, Dawn Macdonald, Victoria J. Sun, Karan Kapoor, Dan HassReal, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 78 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 39 hours ago |
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims,
Free Writing Challenge: Micro of the Month | Deadline: Nov 3
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims,
Happy Halloween!
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Daisy, Daisy by Dan Hass
“I’m half crazy… for the love of you...” | Flash Fiction #10
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Visitations by Glen Creed
“The hand settled back onto the satin...” | Micro #7
Hello fellow strange pilgrims,
10 Little Strange Things
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I write with some beautiful tidings and recommendations. A lot of you lovely souls have been delightfully pestering us about merch and I’m so happy to share that we do...
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Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing 🐦⬛ Fiction & Nonfiction 🐦⬛ Free submissions 🐦⬛ Pays $200/long-form & $50/flash 🐦⬛
confabulated for privacy; new undiscovered art every day, new post (more or less) every week!
Justine Payton is an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and a published writer. An avid hiker and ecofeminist, she explores the themes of resilience and discovering wonder in the small things.
telling strange and surreal stories. none of us are free until all of us are free. 🦢⚰️🪞🚪
To learn more about Kevin and his published stories visit BlueSky: @kevinsandefur.bsky.social or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KevinSandefur.Author
literary mortician in residence @ Curtis Brown Heritage
Glen Creed writes fiction and poetry from Colorado. His work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, HWA Poetry Showcase XIII, and multiple anthologies from Parsec Ink and Black Hare Press. He is forthcoming in Les Oiseaux du Mal from Nightingale Press
Jefferson Navicky is a poet and archivist. His Kafka love came from getting lost in SoHo at 22 years old, wandering into a used bookstore, and discovering "Before the Law" in a used copy of Tales of Wisdom: One Hundred Modern Parables.
Writer, editor, timelapse observer, Shirley Jackson Award finalist, NYU MFA 2025
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Dawn Macdonald lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she grew up without electricity or running water. She also reviews books at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Victoria J. Sun is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. victoriajsun.com
“They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world — the fools, they locked up the wrong man.”
Writer. Director. Nerd. Queer. 🌈🪐 Published in Orion, McSweeney's, Slackjaw. Weekly comedy essays at SOS: Satire or Something ➡️ satireorsomething.com
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