Ongoing Submissions: Fusion Fragment

Payment: 4 cents CAD per word
Theme: All science fiction but lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre

What We Want

• Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words.
• Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction.
• We’ll be publishing reprints, but no more than one per issue, so expect acceptance rates to be accordingly lower.
• Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories.
• We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter.

What We Pay

• Both previously unpublished work and reprints pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $400 (CAD) per story.
• Our preferred method of payment is PayPal. If you live in a region where PayPal is not available, we’ll do our best to work with you to find an alternate method of payment.

How To Submit

• Send your stories in RTF, DOC, DOCX or ODT file formats. Standard manuscript formatting is nice but not necessary. No one’s going to get accepted or rejected based on manuscript formatting, so don’t stress about it.
• If you’d like to include a cover letter, feel free to do so. If you’d rather leave it blank, that’s fine, too. (Note that the submission system requires you to enter something in the cover letter field–if you don’t want to include one, just write “Blank” or something like that.)
• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please be sure to withdraw your submission from us if accepted elsewhere.
• You may submit one original story and one reprint simultaneously. If a story is rejected, you may continue to send additional stories for as long as the submission period remains open.
• You will receive an automated email confirming receipt of your submission that will include a link where you can check your position in the queue. If you do not receive this email, you should query at the email address below to make sure that your story has been received. (In some cases, you may need to whitelist moksha.io in your email settings.)
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• Send your stories to us through the Moksha submission system, which you can access by clicking here or on the image below. (Please do NOT submit stories directly via the email above.)

What To Expect

• Your submission will be read by a minimum of two people on the reading team.
• If your story gets marked as being a potential fit, it will be passed to additional readers. Editor Cavan reviews each individual reader comment as they come in. During this time, your story maybe read by anywhere from one to ten more people. If reader consensus becomes that it’s not a good fit, Editor Cavan will read the story himself and make a decision on whether it should be rejected or kept for further assessment.
• If the editor enjoys the story as well, it will be placed on a shortlist to be reviewed again later on.
• Our aim is to respond to all stories within 30 days.
• Upon acceptance, we’ll email you to let you know the good news and to confirm your PayPal/Wise information. Once we have that, you’ll have a contract to review within a day or two (or less!). Once you’ve signed the contract, you’ll receive payment, again in a day or two (or less!).
• You can then follow along on the production progress of the issue you’re in by accessing this page.
• Once story formatting is mostly done, you’ll be sent a survey to provide some supplementary material to go along with your story. You’ll then receive a preliminary (ie. not proofread) copy of your story and supplementary pages as it’ll appear in the magazine. You don’t have to do any edits yourself, but if there are changes you’d like to request at that time, you’re welcome to do so.
• Closer to publication time, you’ll receive an email detailing all of the edits we plan to make to what was in that preliminary proof. Usually it’ll be a short list of changes, and you’ll generally have about a week to make any further changes before the issue gets sent to reviewers/Patreon supporters. However, note that you are free to request further changes at any time (even after the issue’s been released…even years later).

Via: Fusion Fragment.