Stories
where the
rules
come after.

NTW publishes fiction that arrives from somewhere unexpected. Where logic is a suggestion. Where the uncanny earns its place on the page.

Current Issue Vol. V — Spring 2025

Issue V · Fiction

The Door That Opened Inward

A woman discovers a door in her apartment that was not there yesterday. It opens onto a hallway that is longer than the building allows. She keeps walking.

— Amara Diallo

Issue V · Novella excerpt

Seventeen Moons

There have always been seventeen moons. Everyone knows this. The astronomers will tell you there is only one, but they are counting wrong.

— Yusuf Okafor

Issue V · Flash fiction

The Man Who Repeated

Every morning he wakes to find the previous day has happened again, in the wrong order, with a different ending.

— Claire Sauvage

Issue IV · Reprint

Water Memory

The lake remembers everyone who has ever drowned in it. It keeps them in the water, just below hearing.

— Hana Iwata

"Somewhere between sleep and waking, a story begins without an author — and finds one anyway."

— NTW, Issue I

We publish what can't be explained.

NTW is a quarterly journal of surrealist, speculative, and otherwise uncategorizable fiction. We are interested in stories that arrive from somewhere unexpected — where logic is a suggestion, not a law.

We pay contributors. We take no rights beyond first publication. We respond to everything.

Submission Guidelines

Length — No minimum. 12,000 words maximum for prose.

Rights — First world rights only. All others remain yours.

Format — Plain text or standard manuscript format.

Simultaneous — Allowed. Tell us if accepted elsewhere.

Response time — 6 weeks. We read everything.

submit@ntw.lit