Deadline: January 5th, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Storm

We are currently reading for our Winter 2025 issue.

The theme for this issue is storm.

In our changing climate, storms are here to stay. They batter us from within and without. Whether writing about a literal tempest or a figurative deluge, we want to read your torrential landscapes. Send us fiction, flash fiction, poetry, or art that strikes lightning in our hearts.

Please read the general guidelines below before submitting. The deadline to submit for the winter issue is January 5th, 2025.

The best way to learn what we are looking for is to read us! All of our issues are available to read for free online. To check out our Summer 2023 issue, click here. To read our latest flash fiction contest winners, click here. 

You might just find something you like, too!

Guidelines for General Submissions:

• All submissions should follow the core code of the magazine: write or illustrate something fantastic. We are interested in all things fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, surrealist, fabulist, and magical realist. Show off your weird!
• Fiction submissions should be no longer than 3,500 words. Fiction submissions that are 1,000 words or fewer will be considered as flash fiction. Poetry submissions should be no longer than 50 lines and under three pages. Please send no more than two fiction or flash fiction pieces or four poems per issue.
• Fiction submissions should be double-spaced. All submissions should be in a size 12, no-nonsense font (arial, times new roman, etc).
• We can work with Word DOC, DOCX, and PDF files for fiction and poetry. For art, we can take JPG, PNG, and PDF files.
• We do not discriminate based on race, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, disabilities, or religious beliefs. In fact, we welcome and celebrate diversity in our contributors. Similarly, we will not publish works that promote discrimination or bigotry of any kind. Please do not send us work that denigrates women or minorities.
• Submissions must be original works of your own and unpublished. Publication includes previous posts on social media and blog pages.
• We acquire First North American Serial Rights on submissions we elect to publish. On publication, rights revert back to the author. We request that you credit us as the initial publisher.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please inform us as soon as conveniently possible if your submission is accepted elsewhere.
• Cover letters are optional, but let us know what name you wish to be published under and your personal pronouns, along with a short bio (3-4 sentences). If you have a social media handle you’d like to use, please let us know.
• We are currently only able to offer a token payment of 5 USD for each accepted piece, paid through PayPal. We hope to improve this payment in the future.
• Please send your submissions to [email protected], with either Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, or Art in the email title. Include your submission as an attachment. If you are submitting for multiple genres, please send those in separate emails. Include all submissions of one type in a single file.

Via: The Fantastic Other.