Taking Submissions: Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores
Deadline: September 28th, 2019 Payment: 6¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints Note: This is being listed a little early due to the short window. Submissions Schedule We have a regular submissions schedule, easy to remember and plan for: four times a year, one week each time, midnight E.S.T. to midnight E.S.T., at the beginning of each season of the year: March 21 - 28, June 21 - 28, September 21 - 28, December 21 - 28 We began The Kepler Award this spring. The purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn about The Kepler Award here. We pay 6¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 - 6¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. Reprints must not have been published elsewhere within the past year or be available for sale online. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and 'forget password' have a captcha compatible with screen readers. Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, anywhere from 1000 word flash fiction on up, but all else being equal, shorter pieces will be favored. We also accept poetry. We have tough standards but only care about the quality of the writing, storytelling ability, characters, plot, and ideas, not whether you're new or established. Submit only work you are proud of -- if you don't love it, neither will our readers! If in doubt, edit it down further. And further. For the many writers who valued our feedback on their stories, we have brought back a modified version of the feedback system which will not...
