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We're mashing up some interests for our April open call for short fiction, and are finding the intersection of ecology and anti-authoritarianism to be fresh, fertile — and, while not necessarily utopian, nonetheless full of ...

In the spirit of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, I offer this bit of mind candy, in the hopes that it might be useful to consider and work with. To remain analogous to Asimov, the ...

[These comments on style were originally collected in a tweet thread that was retweeted by Neil Gaiman, which is pretty darn neat.] In the course of editing prose fiction, I find myself continually returning to ...

Updated 1.22.23 We affirm to our readers and contributors that The Fabulist Magazine is, first and foremost, a venue for connections and encounters with unadulterated human creative works. • Unless otherwise specified in any given call ...

Our next open call for short fiction runs from December 4-10. We welcome fantastical and speculative stories of all sorts, and also would love to see fantastical works themed around holidays and seasonal celebrations. What ...

Our November 6-12 submissions window, while open to fantastical and speculative fiction of all sorts, has a special-interest theme of "post-colonialism." What the heck does that actually mean? Read as literally as possible: We are ...

Starting in October, and running at least through Spring 2023, The Fabulist Magazine will be opening a new series of monthly submissions windows for short fantastical fiction of all sorts. Please refer to our submissions ...

We launched a Patreon page to help us pay our contributors and cover our operating expenses. Thanks for signing up! While you ponder this, let's talk about another potential revenue stream, which seems like a ...