Frazzled Lit Gold Star Program Gold Star

We’re Frazzled Lit, the best (in our humble opinion) online literary journal for sparky and exciting short stories, poetry, flash fiction, and CNF.

In 2024, we were voted No. 5 in the Chill Subs Community Favourite Lit Mags that publish flash fiction.

In 2025, we were voted No. 9 in the Chill Subs 'Greatest Editors' list of the best lit mags around.

We have featured the work of international award winning authors such as Nuala O’Connor and Dave Butler, flash wizards such as Tommy Dean and Matt Kendrick, and also writers for whom their Frazzled Lit piece was their first appearance in the literary world.

We are fair and free for ordinary submissions to regular issues. O

ur writers are family to us.

We publish short stories, poetry, flash and creative non-fiction.

Our editing approach is collaborative and collegiate, and we want you to feel involved in the process.

We’ll admit, our editorial standards are high – we publish only the best – but if we accept your work, we will sing about it from the rooftops!

Come join the Frazzled Lit family – the water’s warm!

Specific Guidelines

• Short stories (up to 2,000 words)
• Flash Fiction (up to two pieces of 550 words each)
• Poetry (up to three pieces of 40 lines each)
• CNF (up to 2,500 words)

Per reading period, writers may submit:

• One short fiction
• One CNF piece
• Three poems
• Two flash pieces

You may submit to more than one category per window.

All submissions must be made via Duosuma.

We read blind here at Frazzled Lit so please don’t include your name in the file name or document.

Cover letters are optional, but it's nice to know who is submitting to us. We don’t require an explanation of your work, we want it to speak for itself.

A bio is optional, but if you do include one, make it max 100 words, and third-person.

We prefer documents in Times New Roman, 12 pt.

Please allow up to 30 days after the closing date for us to inform you if we have accepted your work for publication. You will usually hear from us much sooner.

Publication Rights

Frazzled Lit holds first serial publication rights for three months after publication. This means that by accepting publication, writers agree not to publish, authorise or permit the publication of, any part of the material, for three months following first publication by Frazzled Lit. For reprints, we only ask that you credit us as the first publication. Please withdraw your work if your story is accepted elsewhere, and huge congratulations in advance!

What We Don’t Like?

We are an unthemed publication and happy to read work on any subject, however Frazzled Lit will not enjoy work that is racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, ableist or is hateful towards any person or group. Further, we do not wish to read anything that is gratuitously violent or erotic, or contains excessive gore. Animal cruelty of any sort is not acceptable to us.

It goes without saying but we’re saying it anyway:

Frazzled Lit will not tolerate work that is generated by AI.