A black and white image of a Doric column with the words "Doric Literary" on top. The image is headed by the words “Submissions Open” and there is a text box with the following fine print: Short stories 1000 to 8000 words. No submission fee. No cover letter required. We pay $15.00 USD / $20.00 CAD / £10.00 GBP for new work. Reprints (of work not currently available online) are also okay. Sim subs are okay. We nominate for major literary awards. Email one story at a time to: doric.literary@gmail.com We respond quickly. Please query if you do not get a response after two weeks. Visit: doric-literary.com for more details.

At Doric Literary, we've made a bit of money through an editing gig, on the side - so we've raised our payment rate!

It is still a very meagre honorarium but we hope this is the start of a trend.

“Geminids” by Andrea Cavedo "...she knows somewhere there is also the hot tub, which Blake calls a spa bath. The only other thing she knows about the house is that somewhere within it is a nude photograph of Blake’s mother."

New story on Short Story, Long today, from @mrscavedowrites.bsky.social !

"She told her parents where she’s going, of course she did. She is a good girl, so the way she told them was by asking them permission, rather than coming out with it directly."

Congratulations to #ExpoContributor Jaqi Howard on having CLOVER selected for @bestofthenet.bsky.social! ☘️🥳

When selecting our @bestofthenet.bsky.social nominees, we think of our favorite pieces that recognize and embrace the opportunities of digital media, experimenting with form, genre, and content. We’re beyond thrilled to have Jaqi Howard’s comic CLOVER selected for inclusion!

Tenth time is a charm! This makes me feel like other things I thought might never happen might actually happen.

Highly recommend this beautiful #flash fiction about enduring love by @tracieadams.bsky.social 👇

I’m one of the lucky cohort who got to see an early draft of this in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop, too. It came together with such power & sad truth!!!

Bravo, Tracie & congratulations
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Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark: Review by Gabino Iglesias - Locus Online Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark (JackLeg 978-1-95690-722-3, $18.00, 202pp, tp) February 2026. Cover by Danika Isdahl. I know it's early in the year, but I already know that I'll be talking about...

You can read a review in @locusmag.bsky.social

Every Galaxy a Circle Check out Every Galaxy a Circle - <p>An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human Experience</p><p></p><p>In <em>Every Galaxy a Circle</em>, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghost...

I also had a whole book come out from @jacklegpress.bsky.social

You Were Just Here — Weird Horror Magazine

And a creepy and creeping story of blood and darkness in @undertow.bsky.social

Apogee Finally, another manned mission to Mars. How he’d glowed with excitement.

A story in @doricliterary.bsky.social about space and the weight of a shooting star

She Said God But She Meant Silver — Ghost Parachute Not silver-tongued like the devil but silver bullets like the ones that kills werewolves. Alice always switched words, said something other than what she meant. But we’d all gotten used to it, gotten ...

Next a flash piece about childhood friendships and monsters in Ghost Parachute

Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses” We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…

Saturday thread of stuff I've published so far this year! For your reading pleasure (or displeasure if you do not like it):

First up: a creepy story in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social about how you can't go home again

The Bear Who Loved Me It takes exactly nine minutes for his padded paws to lumber from the pines at the edge of our property to our bedroom window. He taps three times.

"I stopped telling them when Bear came to the back deck, swatting the bird feeders, scattering seed like spilled time, then extending his heavy paw and asking if I wanted to dance."

"The Bear Who Loved Me" by @tracieadams.bsky.social
doric-literary.com/2026/04/01/t...

Apogee Finally, another manned mission to Mars. How he’d glowed with excitement.

"She gathered drawings he’d made in first grade, a stuffed bear named Neil, baby shoes, and told the funeral home to put them in the casket."

"Apogee" by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
doric-literary.com/2026/04/01/a...

a man is sitting in a chair with the words " i do not enjoy time wasters " on his chest Alt: A humourless and impatient man is sitting in a chair, evidently talking. The words "I do not enjoy time wasters" are superimposed over his chest.

Writers: Please, please, please keep a spreadsheet and track your submissions to literary journals!

No litmag wants to see the same (unrevised) story twice.

This is us at least once a week:

So happy to receive my copy of the Ghost Parachute anthology! It’s gorgeous and I think I know almost all of the wonderful writers in here!

DEADLINE TODAY: We have one day left to raise $13,000 of our $35K goal. Help us keep Electric Literature free for all—give what you can by midnight tonight, April 15!

Donate Now: buff.ly/Rmfmh3v

Tune in tomorrow Thursday 4/16 at 7 pm CDT for a HAD call for longer flash. Only 100 spots available so you gotta be quick! -Hannah Smart

Sitting out back as the sun goes down, watching the carpenter bees guard their high territories, until the skies begin to darken and the birds go quiet, and I doze off, only to awaken to see the first bat zagging past the branches of the trees, which have lost all color and become still silhouettes

They’ve been protecting the city from zombies rising up for the last 200 years, encasing the undead in super strong honey.

After Brecht by Tyler Barton Either all days are holy or none are. — Terry Pratchett Knowing there will always be audiences for Sunday, this is about Sunday. For this day of the week we have this name. Sunday, which resists&hellip;

been a minute, but super excited to feature Tyler Barton back on the site again today!

"Knowing there will always be audiences for Sunday, this is about Sunday. For this day of the week we have this name. Sunday, which resists visitation..."

https://www.havehashad.com/u73e6

When the Train Whistle Blows Historical Fiction / Flash Fiction

Perfect Sunday reading.

Young kids on a train bridge. What could go wrong?

My grandmother told me this story decades ago & I've filled in some details. First published in @existerejournal.bsky.social in 2022. Now available online for the 1st time.
courtlandavenue.substack.com/p/when-the-t...

I've gotten two really kind notes about TACOMA today, which have just totally made me day/weekend, which I say not to brag (ok, definitely *some* to brag) but as reminder, to myself and also to whoever needs to hear it:

REACH OUT AND LET ARTISTS KNOW WHEN SOMETHING THEY MADE MEANT SOMETHING TO YOU

A black and white image of a doric column with the words Doric Literary on top. The image is headed by the words “Submissions Open” and there is a text box with the following fine print: Short stories 1000 to 8000 words. No submission fee. No cover letter required. We pay $10.00 USD / $14.00 CAD / £7.50 GBP for new work. Reprints (of work not currently available online) are also okay. Sim subs are okay. We nominate for major literary awards. Email one story at a time to: doric.literary@gmail.com We respond quickly. Please query if you do not get a response after two weeks. Visit: doric-literary.com for more details.

Insider tip: Statistically speaking, Doric Literary is due to send an acceptance any minute now. Our last acceptance went out on February 12, so we’ve exceeded our longest dry spell by 3 days.

It’s my pub day!! I appreciate the support of this literary community. Get your copy today! Thank you to AV @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!

⚡️Fast Flash Review: Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever by the brilliant Timothy Boudreau published by Stanchion Books.
@tcboudreau.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social

ICYMI: this story, published on 1/1/26, takes place over Easter weekend. It's a highway romance marked by cheap motels, Old Style, and a three-song piano concert in the Old Market in Omaha. One song is by the inimitable @dawestheband.bsky.social.

Thank you for such kind words!

A fast resonse is great, but let me add as someone who has published in Doric Literary, that the editor is thoughtful and meticulous. Sure, I would say that, he accepted my story, but it's true. This mag has a bright future.

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Doric Literary has risen . . .

. . . to number 2 on the @duotrope.com Fastest Fiction Response Times chart!