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Taking Submissions: The Fantastic Other Winter 2025 Issue

The Fantastic Other

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...