Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims, Meg Pokrass, Lincoln Michel, Joel Cuthbertson, Hannah Eve Levy, Jill Kolongowski, Shannan Mann, Karan Kapoor, Plangdi Neple, Aimee Wai, Caroline Beuley, Cory Calabria, Charlie Ericson, Yvonne Reddick - Writer, JoAnna Novak, brandon brown, Angie EllisReal, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported
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Theme Announcement for May’s Micro of the Month
Hello fellow strange pilgrims,
Mr. Potato Head by Meg Pokrass
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today we present you our first ever Micro of the Month! We received 473 entries for this call which was open for just three days and it was especially difficult to pick a winner. Ultimately, Meg’s charming pie...
Radiculopathy by JoAnna Novak
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, below we have a propulsive genre-bendy and beautiful new flash piece from the wildly talented JoAnna Novak. Read it one go and then read it many times again, each re-read is more rewarding than the last.
The Last Dinner Party by Joel Cuthbertson
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, when Shannan and I first read this story, we read it again together out-loud and though I know we were in our living room in front of a screen, I distinctly remember feeling transported right into the midst of...
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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⬛
Meg Pokrass’ is the author of 9 flash collections. She is the Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series and teaches online flash fiction workshops here: https://megpokrass.substack.com/
Lincoln Michel is the author of Metallic Realms (Atria Books), The Body Scout (Orbit), and Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press). His fiction appears in The Paris Review, F&SF, Lightspeed, Granta, and The Baffler. He runs the newsletter Counter Craft.
Joel Cuthbertson is a writer and librarian from Denver. His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Lit, Joyland Magazine, New England Review, the LARB, LitHub, and more.
writer • poet • founder of The Rebis, an annual tarot-themed print anthology
Jill Kolongowski is an award-winning writer with work in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Jill is a professor, professional worrier, and writes the only flash essay newsletter on Substack.
Creative Director @ ONLY POEMS & Strange Pilgrims | Executive Editor @ Sub Club | Writing a horror magic-realist novel | Reading classics & poetry | Researching literary publishing
“They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world — the fools, they locked up the wrong man.”
Plangdi Neple is an award winning Nigerian writer. His work has appeared in FIYAH, Baffling, Omenana, Flame Tree Press, Afterlives 2024: The Year’s Best Death Fiction, and others.
I write whatever spills out of my gut.
Writer, teacher, editor, fairy tale enthusiast
Professional lab brat ~꙳ \ud83d\udc8a\ud83d\udc00 ꙳~ and queer Southern writer based in New Orleans
I write poems, stories, novels, and essays about poems, stories, and novels. Sometimes I write music, at which moments I decide to write essays about music; I have not written a play, but I have certainly written essays about plays.
Ecopoet, nature writer, prose author, film producer. Winner of the Laurel Prize for Best First UK Collection of Ecopoetry, finalist for the Saltire and ASLE book prizes. Writing tips, craft, community, and more!
Author of CONTRADICTION DAYS: AN ARTIST ON THE VERGE OF MOTHERHOOD, DOMESTIREXIA: POEMS, MEANINGFUL WORK: STORIES, I MUST HAVE YOU: A NOVEL, and a few more. Writer, mom, obsessive.
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