These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of fictionaria.com (the “Site”), operated by Fictionaria Literary Journal (“Fictionaria”, “we”, “us”). By using the Site, you agree to these Terms.
Last updated: February 16, 2026.
Who this is for
The Site is a literary publication featuring original fiction and critical prose. You’re welcome to read, link to, and discuss the work here. If you participate by commenting or contacting us, you agree to do so respectfully.
Copyright and ownership
Works on the Site belong to their authors. Unless otherwise stated, fiction and articles published on Fictionaria remain the property of their respective authors. Fictionaria receives permission or a license to publish and display that work on the Site.
Site design and brand. The Site’s design, layout, logos, and overall presentation are owned by Fictionaria or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Site in a way that violates any applicable law or regulation.
- Harass, threaten, or abuse other people (including in comments).
- Attempt to interfere with the Site’s operation, security, or integrity.
- Scrape, crawl, or harvest content in a way that imposes an unreasonable load or bypasses reasonable controls.
- Reproduce or republish work from the Site without permission from the rights-holder (typically the author), except for short quotations with attribution that are permitted by law.
Comments
Comments may be enabled on some posts. If you comment, you are responsible for what you post. We may moderate, remove, or refuse to publish comments for any reason, including if they are off-topic, abusive, promotional, unlawful, or otherwise inconsistent with the Site’s editorial standards.
By submitting a comment, you grant Fictionaria a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display, reproduce, and distribute that comment on the Site and in backups or archives, solely for operating and promoting the Site.
Submissions and pitches
If you send us writing (a pitch, submission, or draft) via the Contact page or other means, you represent that you have the rights to share it. We will treat submissions as confidential in the ordinary editorial sense, but we cannot guarantee confidentiality for email or internet transmission. Do not send sensitive personal information.
Links to other sites
The Site may link to third-party websites. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or practices.
Disclaimers
The Site is provided “as is” and “as available”. We make no warranties, express or implied, about the Site, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fictionaria will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, arising from or related to your use of the Site.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and update the “Last updated” date.
Contact
Questions about these Terms should be sent to contact@fictionaria.com or via /contact/.