Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims, Ailsa Ross, Marianne Daigh, Justine Payton, The Obsidian, aliyah, Kevin Sandefur, Lily Kovacs, Jefferson Navicky, Karan Kapoor, J. Newman Pritchard, Dawn Macdonald, Shannan Mann, Ata ZargarofReal, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims, thank you for taking some time out of your busy lives for loving literature, and not just literature of the past that has survived the decades and centuries, but literature being created and written today, lit...
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House of Reunification Series by Jefferson Navicky
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, for today’s piece we cheated a little, but come on…we’re writers and readers, and sometimes I feel we are allowed our innocent indulgences. Namely, this time, instead of publishing just one of Jefferson’s flas...
The Prizewinner by Clint Margrave
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today’s essay may well be the opening pages of a play or a novel or an enticing heady surreal Apple TV series or a short story collection, but indeed it an essay in its intended iteration. I love this about cr...
The Keeper of the Last Bird Eggs by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today’s flash fiction is meditative as it is mysterious. Take a coffee/tea/smoke/fake smoke break and sit down with for a few moments. I’m positive you’ll be as charmed as I was.
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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.
on the northside
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. \ud83e\udda2⚰️\ud83e\ude9e\ud83d\udeaa
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
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.
“They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world — the fools, they locked up the wrong man.”
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
Dawn Macdonald lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she grew up without electricity or running water. She also reviews books at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Creative Director @ ONLY POEMS & Strange Pilgrims | Editorial Director @ Chill Subs | Writing a horror magic-realist novel | Reading classics & poetry | Researching literary mysticism
Living on coffee and flowers
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