Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims, Ailsa Ross, aliyah, Justine Payton, Shannan Mann, Karan Kapoor, Marianne Daigh, Dawn Macdonald, D M Gordon, Kevin Sandefur, The Obsidian, J. Newman Pritchard, GennaRose Nethercott, Ata Zargarof, Lily KovacsReal, 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 | 62 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Otter by Zoé Mahfouz
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, our theme for this month’s micro challenge was Utopia and turns out y’all have a whole lot to say about that! We read over 600 entries for this challenge and present you the winner below. Aaand we’re also now...
The Magic Notebook by Kevin Sandefur
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today we have another original gorgeous accompanying artwork from . She’s outdone herself with this one, which, if you look all over Strange Pilgrims, you’ll see is hard to do since everything she creates is b...
“Agents actually prefer to discover talent via lit mags!” | Interview with Curtis Brown Literary Agent, Lily Kovacs
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, this interview sprung from some great conversations I’ve had with Lily Kovacs (literary agent over at our prize partner Curtis Brown) about the literary world today, indie publishing, how writers find agents,...
Good Smoke by Dawn Macdonald
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I’m excited to share that we’re going to do our first Substack live next week on Tuesday, August 25th at 12 PM ET. Shannan will be speaking to literary agent who helped set up our partnership with one of the...
Nymphs by Sunmisola Odusola
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, you’ll notice below that today we haven’t paired an older painting with the piece but rather have some glorious new original artwork by our in-house artist and very good friend ! If you’ve visited our website/...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing \ud83d\udc26⬛ Fiction & Nonfiction \ud83d\udc26⬛ Free submissions \ud83d\udc26⬛ Pays $200/long-form & $50/flash \ud83d\udc26⬛
Author of the "earthly and otherworldly" 2026 novel HOVEL ✵ Strange Light/Penguin Random House. Also writing about history and ascetics and art and anchoresses in The Guardian, BBC History, Kismet etc.
telling strange and surreal stories. none of us are free until all of us are free. \ud83e\udda2⚰️\ud83e\ude9e\ud83d\udeaa
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.
Creative Director @ ONLY POEMS & Strange Pilgrims | Editorial Director @ Chill Subs | Writing a horror magic-realist novel | Reading classics & poetry | Researching literary mysticism
“They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world — the fools, they locked up the wrong man.”
on the northside
Dawn Macdonald lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she grew up without electricity or running water. She also reviews books at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Prize-winning writer—poet and novelist—author of Loosestrife for Porcupines among other works—offering poems about the ecosphere and us.
To learn more about Kevin and his published stories visit BlueSky: @kevinsandefur.bsky.social or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KevinSandefur.Author
J. Newman Pritchard is a writer living in Chicago, IL. He enjoys stories that smell like petrichor and taste like black tea. When he isn’t writing, Jake is often attempting to dissolve into a haunted twilight fog. Website: jnewmanpritchard.com
Living on coffee and flowers
literary mortician in residence @ Curtis Brown Heritage
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