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Artwork / Flat Amount / Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Poetry / Token Payment

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Ongoing Submissions: Leading Edge Magazine

Payment: 1 cent per word, $10.00 minimum, $50.00 maximum. Poetry/Nonfiction are discussed at time of acceptance. Art payment depends on the number of pieces contracted, but generally does not exceed $275.00 maximum.

As with any publication, Leading Edge will not tolerate plagiarism in any form. If you submit plagiarized work, your work will be rejected and your name and email will be flagged for any future submissions. In addition, Leading Edge does not accept previously published pieces.

Leading Edge is affiliated with and run through Brigham Young University; written and visual submissions must conform with the BYU Honor Code. This includes no nudity, sex, profanity, excessive violence, belittlement of traditional family values or religion, or drug use. More specifics can be found on the Honor Code website. Please note that while we may tolerate a small quantity of this content in the submission stage because it can be taken out in the editing stage, excessive disregard for the Honor Code in a submission will send your work to the rejection pile. To get a feel for the work we accept, please purchase a copy of Leading Edge to survey.

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Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Poetry / Royalties

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Ongoing Submissions: Pif Magazine

Payment: $5 and royalties

Pif Magazine primarily publishes fiction, poetry, and author interviews. We have been known to accept book, film, music and zine reviews — and we have published our fair share of essays and critiques.

What are we looking for?

The content we seek is aimed at aspiring and working writers alike. Free thinkers. Art lovers. You. Pif may be a literary magazine, but it’s also a resource for readers and writers who—like us—are inspired by originality.

Our preferred word count for macrofiction is under 2,000 words. We still read submissions that clock in over this word count, but ask that contributors keep this in mind. We’re interested in expanding our collection of humor writing, as well, and are actively seeking fresh voices that tackle this genre.

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Events / Magazine / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: Millhaven Press Spring 2019

Deadline: February 1st, 2019
Payment: 6% royality for fiction writers.

You keep copyright and all rights associated with the story.  You give Millhaven Press first North American print rights.

  • Stories should be between 2,500-8,000 words (we may accept something shorter than 2,500 words or something longer than 8,000 but it has to be phenomenal).
  • Do not submit a story for reprint.  We are only interested in previously unpublished material (a story published on a personal blog is ok).
  • No simultaneous submissions.  Please do not submit the story to another outlet while waiting for a response from us.
  • Multiple submissions are ok, but we will only print one story per author, per issue.  If you aren’t sure which is your best, send more than one and we’ll decide.
  • Use an easily readable font, double-space as .doc or .docx.  Send as an e-mail attachment to [email protected].

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Flat Amount / Magazine / Ongoing Submissions

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Ongoing Submissions: The Weird and Whatnot

Payment: $10 for written works 1000 words or more, $5 for written works less than 1000 words.
Theme: Speculative fiction, ideally weird!

The Weird and Whatnot is dedicated to making publication as painless as possible for our contributors. We will respond to all submissions, questions, and queries in around thirty days, and will always try to treat your piece with the same care you do. We are always open for submissions year round.

Submission guidelines:

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  • We accept poetry, prose, short stories, flash fiction, graphic narratives, plays/screenplays, and 2D artwork

  • Must be speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, alternative history, magical realism, slipstream, or paranormal horror

  • All work must be original: we cannot accept fan-fiction

  • Short stories must be short: maximum length accepted is 10,000 words

  • Artwork submissions must be in a printable medium: videos, slideshows, or audio tracks are not publishable by The Weird and Whatnot at this time

  • No explicit content or excessive profanity

  • Written works should be .doc or .docx files. Standard manuscript format preferred

  • We accept simultaneous submissions but not reprints

Compensation for published works will be as follows: $10 for written works 1000 words or more (including graphic narratives), $10 for artwork, and 5$ for written works less than 1000 words.

You can submit your work right here.

Via: The Weird and Whatnot.

Flash / Flat Amount / Ongoing Submissions / Online

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Ongoing Submissions: Folded Word

Payment: $5

fiction, poetry, literary essays, travel narratives, translation, novelettes in verse / flash

As we head into our 10th anniversary (October 2018), our editorial focus is honing in on one particular aspect of our mission to explore the world one voice at a time. This shift in editorial focus aligns with our new vision:

To become a sustainable archive of short-form literature that explores the intersection between humans and the landscape — including any/all of its inhabitants — inspiring readers, writers, editors, and researchers to engage with and speak for their local ecosystems.

Additional details will be released throughout the spring and summer, but the gist of things can be gleaned from the central circle in the diagram found here:
https://folded.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/wanted-travel-narrative/

IMPORTANT:

  • We ARE reading single works for publication on our blog. Please see the “New Guidelines Overview” section below for details.
  • We are NOT reading unsolicited queries for book-length and chapbook-length manuscripts. Going forward all chapbook manuscripts will be selected on a solicited basis only, from our current authors and regular contributors to the blog who have demonstrated professionalism and community spirit. Any unsolicited chap/book queries/manuscripts will be discarded/deleted without response.

Please be sure you have read some of the works published on this blog prior to submitting your work so that you get a better feel for our editorial tastes. We will make every effort to respond to your submission within 30 days. We believe in a robust editorial process, so revisions may be requested prior to publication. Be sure to take all of these considerations into account before deciding to submit your work to us.

New Guidelines Overview:

  • Editor: JS Graustein | Assistant Editors: Sarah Gibson, Casey Tingle, Zakariah Johnson
  • Reading Period: year round
  • Issue Close Date: 31 December of each year
  • Publication Date: Wednesdays.
  • Number of Pieces Needed: a total of 52 per year across all genres
  • Maximum Number of Pieces per Submission: one (more details below)
  • Simultaneous Submissions: no
  • Previously Published Submissions: no (exceptions below)
  • Royalty: $5 US. Cash royalty paid via PayPal. Authors residing in countries for which individual PayPal accounts are unavailable may select a chapbook from Folded Word’s in-stock titles instead.
  • Other Perqs: Folded Word’s editors may solicit chapbook manuscripts from writers with multiple works published on this blog.

We will respond to submissions as quickly as possible, but initially it may take some time to decide on the best works to launch this new concept.

Submission of Work:

To be considered, a work must:

  1. Have a title, which must be 70 characters or less*
  2. Fit within our format limits:
    1. Poems = 25 lines or less
    2. Flash fiction, literary essay, travel narrative = 500 words or less
    3. Cross genre = reasonable length in reference to limits in A + B above. (For example: 8 lines + 300 words, 4 lines + 400 words, 15 lines + 150 words.)
  3. Be previously unpublished. EXCEPTIONS: a work only published on your own blog OR only published in print.
  4. Follow all submission guidelines. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines will be deleted without notification.

THIS IS IMPORTANT: Please only send us one work at a time — and wait until you hear from us on your first submission before sending us another. We’ll only be posting one selection per week (generally on Wednesdays), so please send your best effort.

*If your work is untitled, please give it a unique numerical identifier such as the date it was written or submitted. Example: 2017.07.11 for a poem submitted on 11 July 2017. If your work is haiku/senryu or other traditionally untitled form, simply use the first line followed by an ellipsis (…).

To Submit, Go Here: Folded Word.

Flat Amount / Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Pro / Reprints Allowed

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Ongoing Submissions: Zooscape

Payment: 8 cents/word up to 1000 words and a flat rate of $80 for longer stories. $20 for reprints.
Theme: Furry stories
Note: Reprints Welcome

We pay 8 cents/word up to 1000 words and a flat rate of $80 for longer stories.  $20 for reprints.

What we’re interested in:

Stories up to 10,000 words; query for longer.  All stories must be furry.  That means an anthropomorphic animal figure should be significantly featured in your story — it could be anthropomorphic in body or only intelligence. We’ll consider any type of furry fiction from secret life of animals to fox in Starbucks.  We love science-fiction with animal-like aliens and fantasy with talking dragons, unicorns, or witch familiars.

We are interested in underrepresented voices. If you have personal experience relevant to your story, feel free to mention it in your cover letter. For instance, if your story is about a space unicorn and you are a space unicorn (or a research biologist who studies space unicorns), let us know. We welcome and will be looking for diverse voices. We are not interested in stories that give voice to racist or sexist ideologies.  And while we like unicorns and dragons, we find focusing on virginity, at best, tedious.

Please do not simultaneously submit a story to us and another market.  For multiple submissions, please query.  For reprints, please tell us where and when the story was published before.

If you haven’t received an initial response to your submission (rejection or hold request) within a month, feel free to query.

How to submit:

Please send us an email at [email protected] (except with fewer koalas) with the subject line, “SUBMISSION:  Title, Word Count.”  Attach your story in Standard Manuscript Format as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf file.  (If you’re not familiar with Standard Manuscript Format, it’s demonstrated and explained in this essay by William Shunn.)  Please keep your cover letter brief.  Something like the following is fine:

Dear Mx. Story Wrangler,

I would like to offer my attached story, “Awesome Furry Story,” for your consideration.  I hope you like it!

I’ve previously had stories published in Awesome Market, Another Market, Yet Another Market.

Sincerely,

Hopeful Author

(they/them)

If you haven’t had any stories published before, don’t worry!  We love discovering new voices.

Via: Zooscape.

Flash / Flat Amount / Ongoing Submissions / Online

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Ongoing Submissions: Nanoism

Payment: $1.50 for stories and a flat $5 for serials.

Nanoism is a twitterzine, an online publication focused on nanofiction, which in this case refers to stories that clock in at a maximum of 140 characters (conforming to the inherent limitations of the Twitter service).

@Nanoism accepts all genres. However, we are most interested in literary fiction—stories that move us with their writing. We are looking for staying power: pieces that leave an impression disproportionate to their length. Make us think.

Please submit only one story per week: we want your very best! However, we are willing to accept previously published “tweets”—just provide us with a link. We’re interested more in quality than exclusivity. If it’s already available online (even your personal Twitter account), we consider it published.

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Submit: Send entries of up to 140 characters by email to [email protected]. Include your name, third-person bio (up to 134 characters), and subject line: “Nanoism Submission”

We don’t need titles, as we won’t be including them during publication.

Rights: You own your story and can do with it whatever you wish after publication. We do retain the right to keep the story in our archive and to include it in future anthologies, electronic and/or print. By submitting you agree to give Nanoism these rights if published.

Response Times: We do our very best to respond within 0-7 days. If you don’t hear back within a month three months, then it was probably lost en route—send it again (via email, editor [at] nanoism [dot] net) and let us know what happened.

Report your response times at Duotrope's Digest

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Serials: Nanoism is currently accepting unsolicited submissions for serialized stories. Serials can be between 3-7 segments/episodes/tweets long and can (but do not need to) include a title. Each segment must stand alone as well as form part of the larger narrative. Due to this challenging constraint, we publish very few serials.

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Payment: We believe in the importance of being paid—even a token amount—for your work. We pay $1.50 for stories and a flat $5 for serials. We also include a short bio with your story, and we’ll gladly link to your personal site and/or twitter account (just fit it in the bio). If you plan to submit more stories in the future, we can hold payments until the amount is larger. Additionally, you can donate your commission to Nanoism (we appreciate it!) to help us pay for future stories. If so, we’ll be sure to send you a complimentary copy of an e-book if it spontaneously creates itself. This is a labor of love; we have no resources.

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Support: If you’d like to support Nanoism, you can do so somewhat effortlessly by clicking this link before shopping at Amazon.com. We will earn a small commission on the books and finery you purchase, and nothing happens to you (except for the good feeling inside from supporting a fine digital literary venue).

Via: Nanoism.

Audio / Flat Amount / Ongoing Submissions

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Ongoing Submissions: The No Sleep Podcast

Payment: Short Stories (1200 to 2499 words): $100, Regular stories (2000+ words): $125
Theme: Horror written in the first person where the main focus of a story should be to scare or unsettl

Here at The NoSleep Podcast, we love nothing more than hearing from up-and-coming or seasoned horror writers who’d like to work with us. We want you to frighten us and mess with our heads, so we in turn can terrify our listeners. As such, we’ve prepared a handy list of submissions guidelines to get your relationship with our show started. We welcome and encourage a broad, diverse range of submissions from all across the horror genre, and can’t wait to read the spine-tingling tales you send us.

Submissions are handled by our team of editors, who upon your story being selected will work with you to ensure your story is primed for audio adaptation.

This email is for story submissions only. Submissions or inquiries about art, voice acting, or contributing to the podcast in some other form should not be sent here. The editors don’t handle that side of the podcast and won’t be able to answer your questions.

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