Foglifter Journal - Fiction
(Poetry) (Nonfiction)
Description
Limited Demographic: queer and trans writers
Note: one submission per reading period.
Note: if your work is accepted, wait one year before submitting again.
Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today. It’s a space where queer writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.
Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful queer work, in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you’re working on now that’s keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it.
Note: one submission per reading period.
Note: if your work is accepted, wait one year before submitting again.
Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today. It’s a space where queer writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.
Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful queer work, in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you’re working on now that’s keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it.
This market is temporarily closed.
Market Submission Schedule
- Submission Window - Mar 1, 2026 thru May 1, 2026 (Begins 108 days from now)
- Submission Window - Sep 1, 2026 thru Nov 1, 2026 (Begins 292 days from now)
Market Genres
Genres
GeneralMarket Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Flash
0 to 1000 words
$100/piece
Short Story
1000 to 7500 words
$100/piece
Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: Yes
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language and Translations
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: Yes
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language and Translations
Market-Provided Data
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Market Response Data (User-Reported)
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Count:
There are 47 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 0 | Average: 55.15 | Median: 55 | Max: 83
Responded:
95.74%
Accepted:
-
Rejected:
95.74% - avg 55 days
(2.22% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
-
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
-
Withdrawn:
4.25%
Pending:
There are 10 pending responses.
(7 min | 51.20 average | 68 median | 71 max days waiting)
Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data.
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Listing added: 17 April 2019
Last officially checked: 9 September 2025