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 experiment 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.

08/10/2026

What we call a thing changes what it does to us. Folly 004 is full of writing that makes you look twice at the language you’ve been handed.

Appetite. 31 October. Link in bio.

One of our contributors wrote the most accurate description of a phone we’ve ever read, and it’s four lines long. Swipe ...
06/10/2026

One of our contributors wrote the most accurate description of a phone we’ve ever read, and it’s four lines long. Swipe for the murder brick.

You’ll be holding one when you read this. We’d rather you were holding Folly.

Folly 004, Appetite. Out Halloween night. Preorders open, link in bio.

More of the writers behind S**t, the issue that proves literature can be beautiful, intelligent and indecent. Swipe to m...
04/10/2026

More of the writers behind S**t, the issue that proves literature can be beautiful, intelligent and indecent. Swipe to meet them, then go and read what they wrote. You’ll finish it faster than you meant to.

S**t is available from follyjournal.com and from our stockists.

Meet caroline huckeba our guest editor for The Puritans. Caroline knows exactly what you’ve been confessing, and she’d l...
03/10/2026

Meet caroline huckeba our guest editor for The Puritans. Caroline knows exactly what you’ve been confessing, and she’d like to read it.

You sent in your questions and she answered every one. What she wants to see, what she’s tired of reading, how to write faith without preaching: it’s all in our story highlights now.

Submissions open now. Link in bio.

01/10/2026

Sydney Sweeney has sports equipment. This guy has Folly.

The fourth edition, launching with Folly Press.
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Candles, collars, confession. We want work about faith and its contradictions: the holy and the hungry, purity and what ...
29/09/2026

Candles, collars, confession. We want work about faith and its contradictions: the holy and the hungry, purity and what it costs, tradwives and whatever is really going on behind the gingham.

Religious imagery, domestic devotion, sin, ritual, repression and the gothic underneath it all. Pious, perverse, or both at once.

Guest edited by the brilliant Caroline Huckeba caroline huckeba

Submissions open on October 1. Link in bio.

Meet some of the people who wrote S**t.Folly Eros’s first explicit issue came out on September 5, and it’s been keeping ...
28/09/2026

Meet some of the people who wrote S**t.

Folly Eros’s first explicit issue came out on September 5, and it’s been keeping people up at night ever since. Swipe to meet a few of the writers who did it. They’re clever, filthy, and very good at sentences.

S**t is available at follyjournal.com and from our stockists. Best read somewhere private, or on the bus if you’re brave.

Do not buy this book if you don’t want honest human writing. Indie presses exist to publish the work that is unpublishab...
27/09/2026

Do not buy this book if you don’t want honest human writing.

Indie presses exist to publish the work that is unpublishable, raw, prodding societal structures and holding up a mirror to acceptability.

Folly represents all of this, and our fourth edition is our most international representation of writers yet.

Folly started as a lit mag, and it morphed into a book. But to celebrate our origins with Lit Mag Week we are joining our friends in the [ c l m p ]] community by offering you a special collectors deal.

Buy a copy of Folly 004 in presales and add any of our award winning, bestselling backlist at half price.
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Folly fourth edition, launching -naturally - on Halloween.

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