Doric Literary
@doricliterary.bsky.social
An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
https://doric-literary.com/
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On the 279th day of the year, Doric Literary has just received & responded to our 1000th submission since going live on January 1, 2025! 👀
No fee. Token payment. FAST RESPONSE!
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
On the 279th day of the year, Doric Literary has just received & responded to our 1000th submission since going live on January 1, 2025! 👀
No fee. Token payment. FAST RESPONSE!
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
We respond quickly!
Out of 1110 short stories received so far this year, 472 were responded to ON THE SAME DAY THEY WERE SUBMITTED!
Number of responses that took more than 2 weeks: 1
(we were waiting for a requested re-write)
Submission guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Out of 1110 short stories received so far this year, 472 were responded to ON THE SAME DAY THEY WERE SUBMITTED!
Number of responses that took more than 2 weeks: 1
(we were waiting for a requested re-write)
Submission guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Submissions
To submit, simply attach one short story, saved as an MS Word document, to an email and send it to: doric.literary@gmail.com No cover letter is required* but be sure to include your story’s t…
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November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We respond quickly!
Out of 1110 short stories received so far this year, 472 were responded to ON THE SAME DAY THEY WERE SUBMITTED!
Number of responses that took more than 2 weeks: 1
(we were waiting for a requested re-write)
Submission guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Out of 1110 short stories received so far this year, 472 were responded to ON THE SAME DAY THEY WERE SUBMITTED!
Number of responses that took more than 2 weeks: 1
(we were waiting for a requested re-write)
Submission guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Short Stories feat. @hudsonreview.bsky.social @prairiefiremag.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Short Stories feat. @hudsonreview.bsky.social @prairiefiremag.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/paying-short-stories-0yEDiBS2
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November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Short Stories feat. @hudsonreview.bsky.social @prairiefiremag.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social @doricliterary.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...
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one of the best kinds of responses to editing a lit journal
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
one of the best kinds of responses to editing a lit journal
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BIO: @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social is a writer from Japan, currently living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her half-moon and two very spoiled farm dogs. Mizuki’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming at @smokelong.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @lostballoon.bsky.social…
Mizuki
Mizuki is a writer of literary and speculative fiction exploring the thresholds between body and spirit, memory and forgetting, the natural and the surreal.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
BIO: @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social is a writer from Japan, currently living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her half-moon and two very spoiled farm dogs. Mizuki’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming at @smokelong.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @lostballoon.bsky.social…
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“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
Stories for a Daughter - Exposition Review
by Mizuki Honorable Mention – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Fiction Daughter, the trees used to scream in August. The Minmin Kami shaking the pines until the air fractured. Aburazemi spread their oil-sheen wings, while the Higurashi Priest sang the dusk sorrow-song, rising and falling like prayer. If you pressed your hand to the… Continue reading Stories for a Daughter →
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
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Best Lit Mag Awards - @chillsubs.bsky.social!
If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
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If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
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Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Best Lit Mag Awards - @chillsubs.bsky.social!
If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
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If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
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Pushcart nominations from Doric Literary will be announced on December 1!
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
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Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
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November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Pushcart nominations from Doric Literary will be announced on December 1!
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
pushcartprize.com/nomination.h...
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
pushcartprize.com/nomination.h...
Pushcart nominations from Doric Literary will be announced on December 1!
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
pushcartprize.com/nomination.h...
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
pushcartprize.com/nomination.h...
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Pushcart nominations from Doric Literary will be announced on December 1!
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
pushcartprize.com/nomination.h...
Reminder to all other #journals & #editors: Don't miss the deadline!
pushcartprize.com/nomination.h...
Best Lit Mag Awards - @chillsubs.bsky.social!
If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
www.chillsubs.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Best Lit Mag Awards - @chillsubs.bsky.social!
If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
If you feel inclined to vote for Doric Literary, you know what to do.
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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and has had work featured in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. They can be found at aniking.net or trying to find somewhere to quietly finish a book without interruptions.
Subscribe to Five-ish Things, a semi-regular newsletter with links to my newly published stories, recommended books or stories, writing prompts, and maybe some pictures of raccoons.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
and has had work featured in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. They can be found at aniking.net or trying to find somewhere to quietly finish a book without interruptions.
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BIO: @aniking.bsky.social (they/them) is a queer, gender noncompliant writer, artist, and activist from Michigan. Ani is the first-place winner of the 2024 Blue Frog annual flash fiction contest and a @smokelong.bsky.social Grand Micro Competition 2023 finalist…
Subscribe to Five-ish Things, a semi-regular newsletter with links to my newly published stories, recommended books or stories, writing prompts, and maybe some pictures of raccoons.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
BIO: @aniking.bsky.social (they/them) is a queer, gender noncompliant writer, artist, and activist from Michigan. Ani is the first-place winner of the 2024 Blue Frog annual flash fiction contest and a @smokelong.bsky.social Grand Micro Competition 2023 finalist…
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To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
This Is Milkweed - Exposition Review
by Ani King Flash Fiction And this is Queen Anne’s lace. Daucus carota, I think. Your mom had a horse named Queen Anne when we were kids. And these are bull thistle. I used to confuse them with nett...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
To get to publish @aniking.bsky.social in our annual issue, right after they won second place in @lizaolsonbooks.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Home” is a dream! Check out Ani’s flash fiction THIS IS MILKWEED in Vol. X: “Spring”: tinyurl.com/ExpoMilkweed…
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#4!
My little baby continues climbing the charts!
@doricliterary.bsky.social has the 4th fastest response time on @duotrope.com 👀
No submission fee. $10 honorarium.
We nominate for @pushcartprize.bsky.social #BOTN & more!
Fiction 1000-8000 words.
doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
My little baby continues climbing the charts!
@doricliterary.bsky.social has the 4th fastest response time on @duotrope.com 👀
No submission fee. $10 honorarium.
We nominate for @pushcartprize.bsky.social #BOTN & more!
Fiction 1000-8000 words.
doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#4!
My little baby continues climbing the charts!
@doricliterary.bsky.social has the 4th fastest response time on @duotrope.com 👀
No submission fee. $10 honorarium.
We nominate for @pushcartprize.bsky.social #BOTN & more!
Fiction 1000-8000 words.
doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
My little baby continues climbing the charts!
@doricliterary.bsky.social has the 4th fastest response time on @duotrope.com 👀
No submission fee. $10 honorarium.
We nominate for @pushcartprize.bsky.social #BOTN & more!
Fiction 1000-8000 words.
doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
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ICYMI my short story, Callie the Cat, is up this month at @doricliterary.bsky.social
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
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Callie the Cat
She lay on her side, and the girls ran toward her, across the Schaeffers’ weedless lawn, oblivious to the breach of property, the concept of trespass, and the possibility that Donna and Steven Scha…
doric-literary.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ICYMI my short story, Callie the Cat, is up this month at @doricliterary.bsky.social
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
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Did you ever create your own little world to escape the real one?
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria
Fergus was sitting with some other fathers of aborted children, and they were all laughing . . . as though this was the biggest joke on earth.
doric-literary.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Did you ever create your own little world to escape the real one?
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
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Celebrate #Caturday by meeting the new neighbors who built that god-awful modernist house on your street.
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
Callie the Cat
She lay on her side, and the girls ran toward her, across the Schaeffers’ weedless lawn, oblivious to the breach of property, the concept of trespass, and the possibility that Donna and Steven Scha…
doric-literary.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Celebrate #Caturday by meeting the new neighbors who built that god-awful modernist house on your street.
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
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I’d be pleased if you read my new story, written in first-person plural point of view: “We missed more than the Bradleys’ house, of course. We missed the Bradleys.”
Celebrate #Caturday by meeting the new neighbors who built that god-awful modernist house on your street.
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
Callie the Cat
She lay on her side, and the girls ran toward her, across the Schaeffers’ weedless lawn, oblivious to the breach of property, the concept of trespass, and the possibility that Donna and Steven Scha…
doric-literary.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’d be pleased if you read my new story, written in first-person plural point of view: “We missed more than the Bradleys’ house, of course. We missed the Bradleys.”
Celebrate #Caturday by meeting the new neighbors who built that god-awful modernist house on your street.
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
Callie the Cat
She lay on her side, and the girls ran toward her, across the Schaeffers’ weedless lawn, oblivious to the breach of property, the concept of trespass, and the possibility that Donna and Steven Scha…
doric-literary.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Celebrate #Caturday by meeting the new neighbors who built that god-awful modernist house on your street.
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
"Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social is now live on Doric Literary.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...
Did you ever create your own little world to escape the real one?
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria
Fergus was sitting with some other fathers of aborted children, and they were all laughing . . . as though this was the biggest joke on earth.
doric-literary.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Did you ever create your own little world to escape the real one?
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
Then try escaping to a small college town & a kingdom where "intercourse is conducted through gentle handholding & soft kisses."
Read "Notes on the Kingdom of Eluetheria" by Ann Landi.
doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/n...
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"The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to say I’m pregnant, as if she’s right to say it."
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
New #flashfiction from the great @sagetyrtle.bsky.social
A List of the Reasons Women Feel Shame | Your Impossible Voice
By Sage Tyrtle — "The bus driver brakes hard and I stumble, my 37 weeks pregnant belly stumbles, my whole big self stumbles into a woman in a baseball hat who mutters fat bitch and I open my mouth to ...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We will only be open for submissions for 5 more days! Our submission period will end this Friday, October 31 (Halloween). Send us your work before then!! lastsyllablelit.com
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Are you a cat person?
Do you want to read a great story?
On November 1, we'll present "Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social. It's about new neighbors, changing communities, & the steady advance of time.
doric-literary.com
#caturday
Do you want to read a great story?
On November 1, we'll present "Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social. It's about new neighbors, changing communities, & the steady advance of time.
doric-literary.com
#caturday
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are you a cat person?
Do you want to read a great story?
On November 1, we'll present "Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social. It's about new neighbors, changing communities, & the steady advance of time.
doric-literary.com
#caturday
Do you want to read a great story?
On November 1, we'll present "Callie the Cat" by @danacann.bsky.social. It's about new neighbors, changing communities, & the steady advance of time.
doric-literary.com
#caturday
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We've got some hard hitting fiction coming your way on November 1!
"Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria" by Ann Landi is about medical trauma, life in a small college town, broken relationships, and finding ways to escape.
You might even learn the ancient art of Flyting!
doric-literary.com
"Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria" by Ann Landi is about medical trauma, life in a small college town, broken relationships, and finding ways to escape.
You might even learn the ancient art of Flyting!
doric-literary.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We've got some hard hitting fiction coming your way on November 1!
"Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria" by Ann Landi is about medical trauma, life in a small college town, broken relationships, and finding ways to escape.
You might even learn the ancient art of Flyting!
doric-literary.com
"Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria" by Ann Landi is about medical trauma, life in a small college town, broken relationships, and finding ways to escape.
You might even learn the ancient art of Flyting!
doric-literary.com
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And yet another ghost story “But I guess he’s just a regular boy who’s scared of his father because he says nothing, his hand growing sweaty and uncomfortable in mine, as if it no longer belongs there.” From @doricliterary.bsky.social doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/s...
Secrets of Mulholland Manor
The footsteps reverberate along the walls, up and down the staircases, like the deep heartbeat of Mulholland Manor. They are ghostly, phantom footsteps.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
And yet another ghost story “But I guess he’s just a regular boy who’s scared of his father because he says nothing, his hand growing sweaty and uncomfortable in mine, as if it no longer belongs there.” From @doricliterary.bsky.social doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/s...
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