Ongoing Submissions: Shelter of Daylight
Payment: Original Stories: $25.00, Reprint Stories: $15.00, Flash Fiction: 1 cent/word, Poems: $5.00, Articles: $20.00
Theme: Original science fiction and fantasy stories that are upbeat and positive in their mood
Note: Reprints Welcome
Shelter of Daylight began with Sam’s Dot Publishing back around the turn of the decade. After some years, it was discontinued. Now, under Hiraeth Books, it has revived.
Shelter of Daylight is now published semi-annually, in January and in July, in print [and, eventually, as an eBook]. It presents original science fiction and fantasy stories that are upbeat and positive in their mood. It also presents a few original poems, again along the overall mood.
Shelter of Daylight wants original stories with plot, tension, suspense, conflict, and character development. Remember, if readers do not care what happens to your main character[s], they won’t read the story. The narrative should maintain a sense of wondering what’s going to happen next; of what’s lurking just around the corner. Showing is better than telling. Frex, instead of telling the reader that it’s cold, show your character shivering, stomping feet, or having ice form on beard or hair. The inner thoughts and emotions of your character[s] are just as important.
Stories submitted to Shelter of Daylight should be between 4K and 8K words long. Longer or shorter stories will be considered; however, anything less than 4K will be a difficult sell. Anything 1K or less will be considered flash fiction. We will consider reprint stories, provided they adhere to the guidelines; however, they are difficult sells.
Submit your stories as rtf or .doc attachments [NO .docx, please] to sdpshowcase at yahoo dot com [you must recombine this address for it to work. Sorry for the inconvenience. Blame spammers].
Please submit one story at a time, and wait for the response before submitting another. We hope to keep the response time down to two months. If you haven’t heard from us in three months, please query.
Poetry submitted to Shelter of Daylight should be from about ten to a hundred lines. Please submit no more than three poems at a time, and wait for the response before submitting more. Again, we hope to keep the response time down to two months. If you haven’t heard from us in three months, please query.
Submit your poems as rtf or .doc attachments [NO .docx, please] or IBOE to sdpshowcase at yahoo dot com [you must recombine this address for it to work. Sorry for the inconvenience. Blame spammers].
Shelter of Daylight also considers articles related to science fiction and/or fantasy. Articles include essays and reviews, as well as writing tips. Word count should be around 1K words, up to a loose 5K words. Please submit one article at a time, and wait for the response before submitting another. Yet again, we hope to keep the response time down to two months. If you haven’t heard from us in three months, please query.
Submit your articles as rtf or .doc attachments [NO .docx, please] to sdpshowcase at yahoo dot com [you must recombine this address for it to work. Sorry for the inconvenience. Boil spammers; inexpensive vegetable oil works best].
Shelter of Daylight is not considering cover art at this time.
Payment is made upon publication by check or Paypal as follows:
Original Stories: $25.00
Reprint Stories: $15.00
Flash Fiction: 1 cent/word
Poems: $5.00
Articles: $20.00
NOTE: If you live outside the United States, you will be paid via Paypal, or must make some other arrangement with the editor.
All submissions must include contact information. This means:
Name [yours, not necessarily your byline name]
Address [street, city, country, and zip code or equivalent]
e-mail address
Paypal address
If your address changes before the publication date, please let us know.
Queries should be sent to sdpshowcase at yahoo dot com [you must recombine this address for it to work. Sorry for the inconvenience. Grill spammers; the grillwork of a 1950 Buick or a 1953 Packard works best].
Via: Hiraeth Books.
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I realize the Pandemic has had an effect on the publishing world but wondered if you are still in opration. I sent you a short, “Mortimer Street,” and wrote down you accepted it in January 2021.
Just as a head’s up – I don’t believe that anyone from Hiraeth Publishing monitors Horror Tree for comments so you may want to reach out to them directly 😉 That being said, it looks like they publish in January and July so I would imagine that they would begin formatting their next issue in June. I should note that this is just a guess from what I’ve seen with other presses as we are not affiliated with Hiraeth and reaching out to them directly would still be the way to go. I hope they get back to you quickly, have a great week!