The Final Girl Review

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About

The Final Girl Review was born from a single candle burning late into the night—just me, a blank screen, and the creeping feeling that there weren’t enough haunted spaces for truly chilling voices to be heard.
Founded by a one-person staff (that’s me—editor, designer, and occasional exorcist), this literary magazine specializes in horror fiction and poetry that rattles the bones and lingers like a ghost long after the lights go out. Inspired by a professor during my undergraduate English program—whose passion for the strange, the eerie, and the beautifully bleak awakened my own—I decided to summon a space where dark minds could gather and share their nightmares.
At The Final Girl Review, the coffins are always open for submissions. Whether it’s gothic lament, psychological unease, or poetic dread, I seek work that breathes (or un-breathes) new life into the horror genre. This publication may be a one-ghoul operation for now, but every shriek and stanza is handled with care—and a little blood, sweat, and screams.
If you’re looking for stories that claw their way under your skin, or poems that bite back—welcome. You’ve found your lair.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2025

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

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We welcome original horror fiction that disturbs, unsettles, or crawls beneath the skin. From gothic to psychological, supernatural to body horror, we’re interested in stories that haunt readers long after the final line.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Horror Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Dark Fantasy, Gothic, Psychological, Science Fiction Horror, Supernatural

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: 500 - 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 4,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Dark, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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At The Final Girl Review, we believe horror doesn't just live in fiction—it lingers in memory, in cultural critique, and in the stories we tell ourselves about the world. We welcome original nonfiction that explores horror from the inside out, whether through personal experience, critical analysis, or reviews of the terrifying texts that shaped you.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Review: 800 - 1,500 words.
Article: 1,500 - 4,000 words.
Essay: 1,500 - 4,000 words.
Narrative Nonfiction: 1,000 - 3,500 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Academic, Critical, Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Literature/Books: Theory/Analysis/Criticism, See guidelines.
Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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We’re looking for poetry that howls, haunts, or decays beautifully on the page. The Final Girl Review seeks original horror poems that explore fear, grief, transformation, obsession, and the unknown—whether it’s whispered in gothic stanzas or screamed in free verse.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Horror Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Dark Fantasy, Gothic, Psychological, Science Fiction Horror, Supernatural

Lengths:

Poem: Up to 100 lines; Up to 3 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms, including: Formal verse, Free verse.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Dark, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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The FInal Girl Review seeks visual artwork that captures the strange, the haunted, and the beautifully grotesque. We’re looking for static visual art—whether hand-drawn, painted, photographed, or digitally crafted—that evokes the spirit of horror in all its terrifying, tender, or twisted forms.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Artwork: Up to 5 pieces.

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media, including...
Digital art.
Drawing.
Painting.
Photography.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles, including: Dark, Fantastical, Science fiction art.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Image.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026