Delay welcomes short fiction submissions from all writers, emerging and established. Submission windows are periodically open throughout the year, about two months before each issue. Delay publishes five times annually: August, November, December, February, and May.
what Delay loves
- Ottessa Moshfegh's stories
- Ernest Hemingway's sentences
- darkness
- weirdos
- losers
what Delay does not love
- mistaking politics for art
- stories that are transparently about the author
- whimsy for whimsy's sake
- stories without characters
- recycled DFW gimmicks