About FICTION

Fiction is a semiannual publication established in 1972 with a circulation of 4,000. It typically runs 150-250 pages, with illustrations or occasionally photos. The guiding principle of Fiction has always been to go to terra incognita in the writing of the imagination, and to ask that modern fiction set itself serious questions, interrogating the nature of the real and the fantastic. It represents no particular school of fiction, except the innovative. Fiction has traditionally attempted to make accessible the inaccessible, to bring the experimental to a broader audience. As a result of its willingness to publish the difficult, experimental and unusual, Fiction has a unique reputation in the U.S. and abroad as a journal of future directions. We pride ourselves on publishing established writers along with new, emerging voices that have not yet been heard. Stories first published in Fiction have been selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses and recently Best American Short Stories. In the past we have featured work by such prize-winning authors as John Ashbery, Joyce Carol Oates, Heinrich Böll, Yasunari Kawabata, Camilo José Cela, Günter Grass, and John Barth to name a few, and have solicited work from such places as Haiti, Mainland China, Germany, Iran, Italy, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and Iran.

Submissions

As the name implies, we publish only fiction. We are looking for the best new writing available, leaning toward the unconventional, and we accept a variety of genres: experimental, satire, literary, translations, and contemporary (however, no romance, science fiction, etc.).

Fiction receives about 250 unsolicited manuscripts a month and accepts about 12-20 manuscripts an issue, or 24-40 a year. Reading period is September 15 - April 5.

To submit, please send a complete manuscript with cover letter and SASE to:

Fiction
Mark J. Mirsky, editor
Department of English, The City College of New York
138th St. & Convent Ave., New York NY 10031

We do not accept email submission.