After Dinner Conversation
Website
https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/
From the Editor
After Dinner Conversation is an award-winning independent nonprofit publisher. We believe in fostering meaningful discussions among friends, family, and students to enhance humanity through truth-seeking, reflection, and respectful debate. To achieve this, we publish philosophical and ethical short story fiction accompanied by discussion questions. What does this mean from a practical standpoint? It means we accept any short story genre in the 1500-7000 word range, but we want a specific kind of story; we are looking for a story where there is a universal issue where two reasonable people could reasonably disagree about what a good (or just) person should do. If you need another example, read “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by the amazing Ursula K. Le Guin. We are a monthly print+digital. We never close for submissions. We pay $75 per short story accepted. Also, unlike many lit magazine, you can find us everywhere, from 22,000 digital libraries to Apple Books to Amazon. Just search “After Dinner Conversation Magazine” Rated “Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024” by Chill Subs Rated “Top 10 LitMag of 2023, 2024” by Chill Subs Rated #1 “The Very Best Literary Magazine” by Ranker Rated Top 50 “Fiction” on Substack Member Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Submissions
We are looking for short story fiction that gets people thinking and talking! Think “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by the amazing Ursula K. Le Guin. If you think more in movies, think Ex Machina, Her, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Looper. For TV, think The Good Place, Westworld, and Star Trek: TNG. The complete details are on our website. https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/submissions or what the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f02mUCJua1w
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Information
Editors Name Kolby Granville
Print publication? Yes
Circulation 500,000+ Monthly Readers Across Platforms
Do you take online submissions? Yes
Submission Guidelines URL https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/submissions
Approx. Response Time? 4-6 weeks for free submissions, 2-3 days for $ FAST PASS submissions
How often do you publish? Monthly
Year Founded? 2019
Do you pay? $75
Twitter https://twitter.com/afterdinnercon
Mailing Address:
Tempe, Arizona
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Great video! I wish all literary journals would provide similar info/guidance as to what they’re looking for.
Two questions:
1. Do you accept creative nonfiction work, or only fiction?
2. Are you interested in ethical issues related to care for the elderly? I write pieces based on my experiences as a resident in a long term care facility.
We accept anything in short story fiction form. Creative nonfiction is totally fine. We are happy to accept stories about eldercare, there are loads of ethical questions to discuss on this topic! I will warn you though, we get a lot of “right to die” submissions so that’s a really hard area to bring something new to.