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Submission Window: September 1st-2nd, 2023 Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used. Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world. Note: Reprints welcome     Submissions Schedule We have a new submissions schedule as of June 1, 2020: The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T. Only one submission per person. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers. We pay 8¢ 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. For new poetry, we pay $1 a line, reprints would be 50¢ a line, up to 40 lines. We’ll look at longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 6¢ per word. We began The Kepler Award 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. You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc. Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, prose and poetry, anywhere from 1000 word flash fiction on up, but all else being equal, shorter pieces...

Deadline: September 2nd, 2023 Payment: $10 and a contributors copy Theme: A throwback to old-school lit mags Welcome to the Unstamatic Newsprint Issue, Vol. 2! The Newsprint project is a throwback to old-school lit mags that were, once upon a time, printed in newspaper format and distributed on the streets, guerrilla style. We’re bringing it back.What we’re looking for: Prose of 500 words or fewer Poetry of 25 lines or fewer Visual art of any sort (but bonus if it’s small/can be scaled down to fit the margins) We’re primarily interested in unpublished pieces, though we may consider exceptional previously published works, so long as you currently hold the rights. Submissions close Sept. 2, 2023 Unstamatic pays $10 USD per accepted piece, plus a complimentary contributor copy. The Newsprint Issue will be available first as a physical publication for order, and later as a downloadable digital publication. We hope to have the Newsprint Issue Vol. 2 in our hands by October 2023, though this is a tentative timeline subject to change. We ask for first publication rights, and upon publication all rights revert back to you. If you want to know more about what you’re getting into, hit up our store page for a free download of Vol. 1. Via: Unstamatic.