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Deadline: January 9th, 2020 Payment: 10 cents per word for fiction, $50 – $100 for poems, reprints: $0.01 per word for these Theme: Everything should in some way relate to merfolk! Note: Reprints Welcome are. What don’t you want? Submissions that are longer than we ask for in our guidelines. We have made these lengths our limits so that we can afford to pay fairly for your work, and we cannot commit to taking longer pieces. Work that promotes homophobia, transphobia, racism, fascism, ableism, misogyny, bigotry, or other attitudes that harm people and go against our love of inclusivity. We are very particular about stories containing violence, child abuse, and sexual assault. We may publish pieces that refer to or depict this kind of thing, but we want it to be justified within the context of the piece, and not there for the sake of sensationalism or shock value. We will place content warnings on any piece we publish containing these. Things that aren’t in some way related to our mertheme. How should I format my submission? For prose, we suggest Word documents, but we will read other kinds. If for some reason we can’t read your document, we’ll email you to let you know. Please use a format that you personally find comfortable to read. We’d like it to be in a widely available font, and at a size that is not too small (12pt is always a good default if you aren’t sure). For poetry, we’d like to see it as you intend it to look on the page. If your poetry has special shaping, we’re okay with a PDF. For comics and art, please send jpeg image files. If we accept a piece we will ask for a higher quality version, but a compressed file is fine...