Folly Journal

Folly Journal Folly is an independent literary and arts journal established in 2022. We aren't looking for high-brow literature. Life is full of follies. Let’s celebrate them.

Folly is an independent literary and arts journal established in 2022 by two creative women who felt called to provide a platform for the type of stories they wanted to read: unfiltered accounts of life, eclectic takes on the mundane, and deep dives into love and sexuality. Founded in Wellington, New Zealand, Folly gives genre-bending and emerging writers from all over the world a place to experim

ent with words. We are looking for truth, satire and writing that makes us laugh at the foibles of modern life - those interludes where the surreal meets the eccentric, otherworldly clashes with reality and where our moral compasses are stretched to the extreme. We are open to considering previously published works.

You did this!!!!Nine days before Folly Erotica even launches, the first print run has sold out completely. We’re printin...
26/08/2026

You did this!!!!

Nine days before Folly Erotica even launches, the first print run has sold out completely. We’re printing more — watch this space for the reprint.

12/08/2026

Follycore. We didn’t invent it, but we are happily adopting it. Especially when we’re a literary press that is about to launch a book of erotica into the world.

Folly, it stands for fun.

Join Folly at New Zealand’s romance bookstores for an evening of S**t, wine and Follycore. Enamoured Books on 4 Septembe...
11/08/2026

Join Folly at New Zealand’s romance bookstores for an evening of S**t, wine and Follycore.

Enamoured Books on 4 September at 5pm in Auckland
XO Book Co on 5 September at 7pm in Wellington

Comment RSVP below to get your name on the door.

08/08/2026

Welcome to Follycore: where everyone’s dressed for the opera and reading like they shouldn’t be allowed in one.

08/08/2026

Welcome to Follycore: where everyone’s dressed for the opera and reading like they shouldn’t be allowed in.

Remember, a ‘no’ to your writing isn’t a comment on your writing itself. We provided personal messages to as many people...
05/08/2026

Remember, a ‘no’ to your writing isn’t a comment on your writing itself. We provided personal messages to as many people as we could, but across hundreds (yes, hundreds) or submissions many of you received a form decline. We want to provide some context here for those of you who took a chance, wrote for the first time, and were brave enough to send your divorce story in to Folly.

Each story was read multiple times across our team, debated and discussed. We planned to accept 30 pieces, we have ended up accepting 40. That is how hard this was. The quality was high, the emotion was high, and as a result the submission acceptance rate was one of our most competitive calls yet.

We provide this context in the hope that you keep writing. Keep submitting, and keep telling your stories.

We are here for this, and will do our best to provide another opportunity in the future.

Congratulations to all of you who will appear in the first issue of Divorce Diet! 🎉

Onwards to production!

Dana Irye Angela Roskam Emily Makere Broadmore

Our readers tell us it is time to close submissions for Divorce Diet. This special edition of Folly will enter curation ...
03/08/2026

Our readers tell us it is time to close submissions for Divorce Diet.

This special edition of Folly will enter curation tomorrow. Submissions remains open until midnight NZT.

Dana Irye

01/08/2026

Us on our way to grab a copy of Folly 🍸

Folly is for those who would dress up in their finest ballet shoes and fake moustache to go meet the girls, dance on a rooftop, and talk about great literature. Or it’s for those who just fantasise about doing it.

Folly is available from all good indie bookstores AND online at www.follyjournal.com. We’ll drink to that! 🥂

💃: Leila 🤵🏻‍♂️: Sadie May 🎥: Emily Makere Broadmore

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