Submission
Guidelines
We are looking for poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and art inspired by folklore. We love unique, weird works that leave an imprint on us. Send us stories from a haunted wood, woven in greenery and bark. Tell us of the creatures that live in your mind. Gods, ghosts, ghouls—or something completely different.
Short stories and creative nonfiction submissions should be up to 7500 words.
Flash fiction submissions should be 1000 words or less.
Poetry submissions should include up to five poems in a single document.
Art submissions should include up to five pieces.
Please limit your submissions to previously unpublished works. Stories, poems, and artworks that are published elsewhere will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged, but make sure to formally withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere prior to publication/acceptance in Folklore Review. To do so, visit the contact page and inform the editors of your wish to withdraw, including your name and the title of the piece(s) in question.
Optional Prompt:
The Harvest: Every family has a secret, a curse. Something that leaves the death beds of ancestors and plants itself within the next generation. This transference is a kind of inheritance—or harvest—and we want to know these harvests. We want to see the consequences of the past, the “reap what you sow,” of one’s lineage.