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Doric Literary
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An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
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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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November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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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.
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#caturday
Quote from "Callie the Cat" by Dana Cann: "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 Schaeffer might not be one of us." White text on a sky blue background with Doric Literary's Greek temple logo.
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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!
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Quote from "Notes on the Kingdom of Eleutheria" by Ann Landi: "Fergus was sitting with some other fathers of aborted children, and they were all laughing . . . as though this was the biggest joke on earth." White text on blue background with a Greek temple logo for Doric Literary.
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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#literary #journal Transparency Time!

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/
Screen shot of Doric Literary's submission statistics from January 1 until today: submissions: 1000 accepted: 28 withdrawn: 2 (after 8 & 10 days waiting) upper tier decline: 121 standard decline: 833 lowest tier decline (sent work contrary to guidelines): 16 (began tracking lowest tier in April, after 446 submissions) acceptance rate: 2.80% longest response time - acceptance: 19 days (waited for requested rewrite) longest response time - decline: 9 days average response time: 1.63 days Submission tracker stats: Chill Subs: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 2 days (11 reports) Duotrope: 4.65% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.4 days (86 reports)* Submission Grinder: 0% acceptance rate, average response time: 1.08 days (36 reports) *Doric Literary's response time is the 5th fastest in Duotrope's fiction database! Note: Doric Literary has not accepted any solicited work since going live on January 1, 2025.
October 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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It's a beautiful fall day in October.
The temperature is right for reading.
And we just happen to have some new work for you all.

Short fiction by @happilander.bsky.social & Franz Jørgen Neumann!
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A screenshot of the Doric Literary website showing our Greek Temple logo and featuring the links to our two newest short stories: "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy" by Mileva Anastasiadou & "Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann.
October 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

Set in Norway, "Refuge" by Franz Jørgen Neumann, is a hopeful and beautifully written story about regret and redemption, split-second decisions and spiraling consequences.

Do not miss this one!
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Image shows white text on a sky blue background; a quote from Franz Jørgen Neumann's short story, "Refuge." "Regret, he’s learning again, swells until it assumes the shape of sin."
September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Coming October 1 to Doric Literary!

We are breathlessly awaiting the release of wonderful new work by @happilander.bsky.social

You are going to love it!
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In white text on a sky blue background is a quote from Mileva Anastasiadou's new story "Collective Nouns for Poets in Therapy." "Her friends are complicated but also simple. They are a mess too, the kind of yarn that’s impossible to untangle. They could do drugs. Instead, they write poetry."
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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September has been great at Doric Literary. We've published 2 brilliant new works & opened up 2 wonderful stories to an online audience for the 1st time. For well-written, collection-worthy fiction, with solid plotlines & satisfying conclusions, visit us:
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Screenshot of the Doric Literary website showing our Greek temple logo and the four stories we published this month: "Harvest" by Vanessa Blakeslee, "Weintraub's Disorder" by Yvonne Fein, "Beach Voices" by Mick Bennett, & "Bar Back" by Joe Baumann.
September 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Doric Literary is open for fiction submissions (1000-8000 words).

We're approaching our 1000th submission of the year.

Free to submit
We nominate for major literary awards
Acceptance rate: 2.93%

We respond QUICKLY!!
We are now #5 @duotrope.com

Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Screenshot of the fiction publishers with the top five fastest response times at Duotrope, showing Doric Literary at number five, with an average response time of 1.4 days.
September 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It still feels like a dream come true to see Doric Literary listed by @duotrope.com as a publisher with one of the fastest average response times.

We are always open for submissions
Free to submit
We nominate for major literary awards
Fiction: 1000-8000 words
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Screenshot of the 25 fastest fiction publishers listed by Duotrope. Highlighted in the #7 position is Doric Literary, with an average response time of 1.6 days.
September 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Tomorrow at Doric Literary, we're reprinting an incredible story from Australia that has never before been seen online.

"Weintraub's Disorder" by Yvonne Fein examines, with humor, gravity & stunning prose, the mental struggles of a daughter of holocaust survivors.

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White text on blue background. Quote from "Weintraub's Disorder" by Yvonne Fein: "In her queue, Judith watches as Mengele directs the Jews: this one to the right, this one to the left. She whispers to Shari that they must try to stay together and get into the right-hand column. That is where the strong, young ones are being herded. But her mother will not let go of the baby and is shunted to the left. Mengele has worked out that mothers pining for their children are useless for labour."
September 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Tomorrow at Doric Literary we'll reprint a stunning story that never had an online presence.

"Harvest" by Vanessa Blakeslee is a sprawling epic about a transplanted Italian community in 1933 Pennsylvania.

There's food, wine, & family but beware the malocchio! vanessablakeslee.com
Quote from "Harvest" by Vanessa Blakeslee: "Over the next several days relatives and friends filled the house. The aunts, dressed in black, covered the mirrors and pictures with sheets. Helen’s little body was laid out in the flower girl dress everyone had just seen her wearing the previous week."
September 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Out of 1000s of fiction journals, @doricliterary.bsky.social is essentially in a 3-way tie for 8th fastest response time, according to @duotrope.com 🎖️
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Image shows a screen shot from Duotrope showing publishers with the fastest average response times reported. Doric Literary responds in 1.8 days. Two other journals have the same response time and only seven others respond faster.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Doric Literary has great things planned for September!

Our 2nd work of new fiction is by Mick Bennett
@mickbennett7.bsky.social mickbennettnj.com

"Beach Voices" uncovers the antics of vivid characters in an idyllic beachside community. #electrolarynx

Coming September 1. doric-literary.com
Image is an excerpt from "Beach Voices" by Mick Bennett: "I stared at Bobby; I always do. As if he’s going to change his ways right before my eyes. He shrugged his shoulders, turned his mouth up at a corner, and looked away before hitting me with that smile, all flowers and fertilizer."
August 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Doric Literary has great things planned for September!

First up will be a captivating family and personal drama. It involves a little mystery & some great beverages!

"Bar Back" by Joe Baumann @jbaumann035.bsky.social
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Coming on September 1. doric-literary.com
Image is an excerpt from "Bar Back," by Joe Baumann: "He spent four more years in that house, just him and his father, the two orbiting one another in an unsteady set of routines. While Dallas tried to act as if everything was the same, though of course it wasn’t, his father shrunk into himself, becoming more stoic and distant than he’d been the rest of Dallas’s life."
August 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Tomorrow is a great day for Doric Literary. We get to reprint a story by the amazing @anniejowrites.bsky.social.

If you missed "Mae and Me" when it first came out with Catapult, or don't own the debut collection, TUMERIC & SUGAR, visit our website tomorrow!
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"The two years following Daniel’s disappearance stretched on like a decade. He still haunted every inch of the tiny studio and any time I caught myself feeling vain and smiling at my appearance in the mirror, he stared back at me from behind the glass, wondering with his hurt expression who I was trying to look pretty for with his fate still unknown." Excerpt from the short story Mae and Me by Anna Vangala Jones.
August 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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We have 2 new stories today!
"The Rock" by Janet Goldberg
"Eating My Ex" by Grace Ballard
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We nominated @aaronburch.bsky.social & Lis Anna-Langston for #BestOfTheNet
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& we have the 11th fastest response time @duotrope.com so we are the #ListingOfTheDay
Image is a screenshot of the Doric Literary listing at Duotrope. It includes a yellow banner acknowledging that: "This is the current Listing of the Day"!
August 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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2026 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!!🎉

Doric Literary is excited to announce our fiction nominations for the #BOTN anthology are Lis Anna-Langston
& @aaronburch.bsky.social!

Stories:
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Announcement: doric-literary.com/about-2/
White text on a blue background reveals the text: "Doric Literary, 2026 Best of the Net Anthology nominations: Leaving the Rosenthaler Strasse on an Evening in Late September by Lis Anna-Langston Rambling, Sidling, Absolved, Cradled by Aaron Burch" Image also shows the logos of the Best of the Net & Doric Literary.
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Submissions are always open at Doric Literary!

We publish literary fiction from 1000 to 8000 words.
We reprint stories not currently online.

And . . .

WE NOMINATE FOR LITERARY AWARDS LIKE #BOTN

We'll announce our nominees tomorrow, July 30!

Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Photo is a screenshot of the "submission received" response from the 2026 Best of the Net Nomination Form.
July 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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After six months of being listed on @duotrope.com, Doric Literary's "fledgling" banner has been removed & a new one has been added.

We are quite proud.

Duotrope listing: duotrope.com/magazine/dor...
Guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
Submissions are open!
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July 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Doric Literary celebrates its 6-month Anniversary with 3 new stories:
"Leaving the Rosenthaler Strasse on an Evening in Late September" by Lis Anna-Langston - now online
"Lost Dog" by @paulluikart.bsky.social - July 1
"The Yellow Buckeye" by Patricia Sammon - July 1
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In blue text on a white background: Doric Literary, established 2025. Image: a detail of a Doric temple against a bright blue sky.
June 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Doric Literary will be bringing you a brand-new, brilliant, & beautiful short story tomorrow!

This one, by Lis Anna-Langston (lisannalangston.com), is going to be awesome, #fiction fans!

Tune in at noon (Eastern), June 30, 2025, right here: doric-literary.com
"That’s how you know you love someone. You go straight to madness without so much as a blink." Leaving the Rosenthaler Strasse on an Evening in Late September by Lis Anna-Langston
June 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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As good a time as any to update Doric Literary submission stats!

We are very proud of our fast response time!

We publish fiction - 1000 to 8000 words.
We pay $10 honorarium for new work.
No submission fee. Sim subs are fine.

Full submission guidelines: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/
From Jan 1 - June 27, 2025. submissions: 666 accepted: 19 withdrawn: 2 upper tier decline: 69 standard decline: 576 acceptance rate: 2.85% longest response: 19 days average response time: 2.25 days Submission tracker stats: Chill Subs: 0% acceptance rate, Average response time: 2 days (7 reports) Duotrope: 4% acceptance rate. Average response time: 2.3 days (49 reports) Sub grinder: 0% acceptance rate. Average response time: 1.3 days (12 reports)
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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And thank you, Sudha! This is the first time I've noticed Doric Literary in an author bio!
About Sudha Balagopal Sudha Balagopal is an Indian-American writer whose work appears in Smokelong, Doric Literary and Fictive Dream among other journals. In 2024, her novella-in-flash, Nose Ornaments, runner up in the Bath contest, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction, UK. She has had stories included in Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions. She is Series Editor, Wigleaf Top 50.
June 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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On June 1, Doric Literary will reprint "Liv and Let Liv" by Julie Esther Fisher, the Grand Prize Recipient of the 2022 Stories That Need to be Told anthology.

It will be the first time that the full story will appear online.
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"It says right here in my Daily Mirror horoscope that the pendulum is finally swinging in my direction. Then The Sun tells me to brace myself for a blow. I don’t know which one to believe.” Liv and Let Liv by Julie Esther Fisher
May 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM