⁘ This is Whim & Wander: The Journal ⁘
To reignite the spark of imagination and bring more wonder to the world; this is our purpose.
Stories are born from many places: the swirl of the breeze on a Monday morning, a baby’s first smile, laughter shared with a friend. They come unexpectedly, they come after hours of pondering.
Stories provide a path to the world we lived in as children.
Join us as we find our way back to the joy we used to know, riding on the wind of wonder and fancy.
⁘ Submissions ⁘
You can find our submission guidelines here.
⁘ Pay ⁘
We currently pay contributors $20 per story and $10 per poem (with hopes of increasing this in the future as our support grows).
Contributors will receive payment via PayPal within one week of publication.
We hope to raise our budget in the future. If you’d like to support this journal, you can upgrade to a paid subscription.
⁘ What We Publish ⁘
We currently publish stories and poetry, with hopes to expand to further categories. We currently accept:
⁘ Flash Fiction (under 1,000 words)
⁘ Short Stories (up to 5,000 words)
⁘ Poetry
The goal of Whim and Wander: The Journal is to bring a little more imagination into a world that’s forgotten how to wonder.
Think light, wholesome, surreal, whimsical, imaginative, lyrical… the kind of thing that tugs at the imagination and feeds the soul — tales that remind us that goodness still exists.
⁘ Contributor Rights ⁘
We reserve first serial rights, along with the right to archive your work on our website. All rights revert to you upon publication. If you share your work elsewhere, please acknowledge Whim & Wander: The Journal as the original publisher.
Thank you for being here in our little corner of the Internet.
We can’t wait to bring light to the world together.
