Menagerie Magazine - Fiction
(Poetry) (Nonfiction)
Description
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Menagerie publishes fictions, essays, and poems. We believe in sentences so sharp they draw blood, the strange and inexplicable, the wild and weird and uncanny, words in thickets, clusters, and flocks, pieces that move us beyond caring what others think about said pieces.
Things we like: fictions ala Borges, Link, Calvino, & Sparks; weird lyric essay; engagements with the environment and natural world; poems that explode form; bricolage, masala, & sagul sagul; forays into the omnipresent information-saturated online architecture we live in.
Menagerie publishes fictions, essays, and poems. We believe in sentences so sharp they draw blood, the strange and inexplicable, the wild and weird and uncanny, words in thickets, clusters, and flocks, pieces that move us beyond caring what others think about said pieces.
Things we like: fictions ala Borges, Link, Calvino, & Sparks; weird lyric essay; engagements with the environment and natural world; poems that explode form; bricolage, masala, & sagul sagul; forays into the omnipresent information-saturated online architecture we live in.
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This market charges a fee of $3.00 to submit.
Market Genres
Genres
FantasyGeneral
Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Flash
0 to 1000 words
$50/piece
Short Story
1000 to 5000 words
$50/piece
Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Estimated Response: 60 days
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Estimated Response: 60 days
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Market Response Data (User-Reported)
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Count:
There are 64 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 8 | Average: 104.69 | Median: 102 | Max: 148
Responded:
87.50%
Accepted:
1.56% - avg 146 days
Rejected:
85.93% - avg 103 days
(9.09% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
3.12%
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
3.12%
Withdrawn:
9.37%
Pending:
There are 22 pending responses.
(4 min | 100.09 average | 98 median | 127 max days waiting)
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Listing added: 9 December 2022
Last officially checked: 17 November 2025