Closed: Outposts of Beyond

Outposts is closed to submissions and the final issue will be July 2020. This has been a wonderful and fun magazine to put out. Numerous authors have gotten their start here, Karen Otto included, and we will remember it fondly. Thank you, everyone, for making this awesome.

Payment: $20 for original stories
$10 for reprints
Reprints Allowed
Note: Don’t let the date in their submissions on the first issue fool you, they’re still active.

Guidelines for Outposts of Beyond

We’ll keep it simple.

Outposts of Beyond is a quarterly digest published by Alban Lake Publishing in January, April, July, and October. The first issue will be released on 1 July 2013. The format is full-sized, perfect-bound magazine, 8 1/2 by 11, color cover and b&w interior. Cover price is $8.00 unless it is a special double issue. Subscriptions are $27 for one year, $50 for two years. Magazines and subscriptions are available in our bookstore.

Outposts of Beyond publishes original science fiction and fantasy short stories, poems, art, articles, reviews, and interviews. Preferred are adventure stories, space opera, and magic opera [like space opera, but fantasy]. Also preferred are stories that take place on other worlds. Stories must have the following: characters the reader cares about, plots and subplots, and settings that draw the reader into them. Must have.

Submit your work to [email protected]. In the subject line of the e-mail, put Submission plus your last name and the title of the work submitted [if poems, just put “poems.”] E.g., “Submission: Asimov Nightfall.” Submit your story or article as an rtf, doc, or docx attachment. Submit poem[s] either in the body of the e-mail or in an attachment. Submit art as a jpeg attachment.

Note: Put your contact information in the upper left corner of your manuscript AND in your e-mail. Put the approximate word count in the upper right corner of your manuscript. Contact information example is:

Edgar Montrose,
1101 Kaboom Street,
Mushroom, NY 12117

[email protected]

paypal [if any]: [email protected]

Note: If your submission does not include your contact information, Alban Lake Publishing reserves the right to delete your submission unread and without notifying you.

Stories:
Outposts of Beyond considers stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words long. We pay $20 for original stories, $10 for reprints. At most, we will publish one reprint per issue.

Poems:
Outposts of Beyond considers poems between 12 and 100 lines long. We pay $4.00 for original poems, $2.00 for reprints. At most, we will publish one reprint per issue. We do not consider scifaiku or related forms.

Art:
Outposts of Beyond considers color cover art and interior art. We pay $20 for cover art, $6 for interior illustrations. We prefer art that suggests a story, rather than “portrait” art. It’s often best if the artist has a gallery we can browse; just send us the link, and we’ll check it out and get back to you.

Articles:
Outposts of Beyond considers articles, which includes reviews and interviews as well as essays having something to do with science, science fiction, or fantasy. We are not interested in summaries, or copies of information from the Internet. Pick a topic–sciencey, or fantasy, or movie, or book, or person [interview]–and tell us what you think about it. Go into detail. If appropriate, cite examples. Note: if you are doing a review, state your position on it. If you disliked something, say so. Be fair, but be accurate. Also note: reviews of movies need to be timely.

We consider articles between 1,500 and 8,000 words long. We pay $10 for original articles.

There you have it. Again, we must insist on guideline compliance. Now, let’s see whatcha got.

Via: Alban Lake.