Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims, Meg Pokrass, Joel Cuthbertson, Ailsa Ross, Isabel J. Kim | 김지영, Justine Payton, Shannan Mann, Karan Kapoor, Liza Katz Duncan, Marianne Daigh, D M Gordon, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, JoAnna Novak, J. Newman Pritchard, Fleming Meeks, GennaRose Nethercott, Ata ZargarofReal, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported
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Star Shrapnel by Ata Zargarof
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, today’s essay is part-history, part-review, part-meditation, part-mythos, and all of it enthralling. It’s the kind of writing one can spend a whole day with and still feel there’s more to be read, somewhere in...
Love for the Artist by Divya Kernan
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, the flash you’re about to be treated to below is something that made both Karan and I say FUCK out loud more than a few times, and I feel like that’s all the preface you need from my end for this one.
As you...
Send us your stories & essays!
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I think first off we owe you a small apology as this email is exactly one week late and that’s because, well, things have been overwhelmingly magnificently hectic on our ends. We moved back to Canada on my bir...
Open Sub Call: Micro of the Month
Hello fellow strange pilgrims,
We’re back again for another Micro of the Month writing challenge with a new theme. In case you need a refresher on what this is, here ya are:
STRANGE PILGRIMS is an independent, ad-free & read...
Sparks Alive Through Severed Phonelines by Evan Noren
Hello fellow strange pilgrims, June’s Micro of the Month theme was Love & Sex because June is stupidly hot (unless you’re in New Zealand and Australia…or I guess the North Pole…anyway). And well, boy did y’all deliver. Evan’s micro below ro...
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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/
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.
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.
SFF writeguy, podcaster, attorney. she/they. corn enthusiast.
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 | Editoral Director @ 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.”
Liza Katz Duncan is the author of two collections of poetry. She lives in New Jersey, where she teaches multilingual learners.
on the northside
Prize-winning writer—poet and novelist—author of Loosestrife for Porcupines among other works—offering poems about the ecosphere and us.
Former editor of Eleven Eleven. Most recent book is Animal Children (Nomadic/Black Lawrence Press). Lives in Barcelona. https://linktr.ee/hughsteinberg
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.
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
Poet and former journalist. Work published in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, etc.
Living on coffee and flowers
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