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Science Fiction & Fantasy - Markets ( Markets | Publishers )
Aardwolf Press -
Description: Aardwolf is a small press, specializing in fantasy and science fiction. We publish 2 or 3 books a year. And we seem to get 2 or 3 queries a day. So it's not easy to break through here. We're always looking for good stories, good writing, originality, and we don't mind reading manuscripts from authors without agents.
Guidelines: E-mail query, through "Contact Us" page of this web site. DO NOT attach a synopsis or the first chapters. We don't open unsolicited attachments, embed it in the email itself. If submitting by snail mail, send a synopsis along with enough chapters to give a feel for your writing talent. We'll respond within a week. Double-space, one-side. Include SASE only if you want manuscript returned.
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Submission Needs: We don't want books for children/young adults or books of poetry. We won’t be interested in your 10-volume fantasy, or your trilogy.
Payment: We will negotiate an advance.. But if you will accept royalty payments only, we'll to do more to make your book a success.
Word Length: from 50,000 - 150,000 words.
Postal Address: Aardwolf Press P.O. Box 14792 Durham, NC 27709-4792.
Albedo One -
Description: We are one of the most prominent Irish magazines of speculative fiction, SF and horror, appearing 4 times a year with fiction by Norman Spinrad, Jeff Vandermeer, Liz Williams, Esther M. Friesner and Ian McDonald.
Guidelines: We only accept previously unpublished stories and no simultaneous submission. Submissions must be typed on A4 paper, double-spaced, one side of paper, and 1" margins around page. Softcopy should be available on request. SASE (Irish stamps ONLY, please) or reply coupon. We consider submissions to be for paper and/or in electronic publication, unless we are told otherwise. No e-mail submissions in the form of attachments.
Submission Needs: Would like thoughtful, well written fiction that avoids the genre clichés. We love sci-fi, horror and fantasy that pushes the boundaries. We also need interviews with high profile authors and media.
Payment: 100 euro on publication and a copy of issue in which their work appears. The story voted best in issue by readers wins an additional E30 prize.
Word Length: from 2,000 to 6,000 words.
Postal Address: Albedo One, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Analog -
Description: Real science and technology are important, not only as the foundation of its fiction, but as the subject of articles about real research. We're very concerned about people and how future changes will affect the way they live. Editor Stanley Schmidt is both a physicist and a science fiction writer. Philosophy: solidly entertaining stories exploring solidly thought-out speculative ideas.
Guidelines: http://www.sfsite.com/analog/info/guidelines.htm
Submission Needs: Analog will consider material submitted by any writer, and consider it solely on the basis of merit. We are eager to find and develop new writers.
Payment: 6-8 cents per word for short stories up to 7,500 words, $450-600 for stories between 7,500 and 10,000 words, and 5-6 cents per word for longer material. Fact articles are paid 6 cents per word.
Word Length: between 2,000-7,000 for shorts, 10,000-20,000 for novelettes, and 40,000-80,000 for serials.
Address: 475 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor, New York NY 10016.
Anotherealm -
Description: a monthly e-zine. A new full length story will be offered each month, on approximately the first of the month. We do three kinds of stories, Full Length, Contest and Flash Fiction.
Submission Needs: SF/F/H stories with a strong plot and good characters. Hard science fiction is always welcomed. What we don't want is stories that are pornographic or use violence beyond the plot line.
Guidelines: Submission period is year round. Submit stories at any time. We won't evaluate any story we receive after Oct. 1 until following year. Do not center titles. Include name, both real and as published. Your address, both email and physical. Include a word count. Accepts no attachments. Set your stories to PLAIN TEXT and PASTE them in an e-mail for submission. No hardcopy submissions.
Word Length: Full length stories up to 5,000 words. Contests & Flash fiction 1,000 words.
Payment: We do pay for full length stories. Contest and Flash Fiction we don't pay for.
Rights: First Worldwide Electronic Rights on payment. All additional copyrights stay with the author.
Address: Please send electronic submissions only, to editor@anotherealm.com.
Asimov's Science Fiction -
Description: Asimov's Science Fiction publishes short stories, novelettes, novellas, and poems by the top writers in the genre. From matriarchal alien worlds to earth bound alternate histories, we feature tales that are original in both content and style.
Guidelines: http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.htm
Submission Needs: In general, we're looking for "character oriented" stories, those in which the characters, rather than the science, provide the main focus for the reader's interest.
Payment: Beginners get 6.0 cents a word to 7,500 words, 5.0 cents a word for stories over 12,500 words, and $450 for stories in between those two lengths.
Word Length:. We seldom buy stories longer than 15,000 words, and we don't serialize novels.
Rights: We buy First English Language serial rights plus certain non-exclusive rights explained in our contract. We do not publish reprints, and we do not accept "simultaneous submissions".
Editor: Gardner Dozois
Postal Address: 75 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor, New York NY 10016.
Aurealis -
Description: Australia’s most successful SF/F/H magazine, which has from its first issue in 1990 defined Australia’s Golden Age of SF. Find out what’s happening in the new hotbed of speculative fiction.
Guidelines: http://www.sf.org.au/aurealis/GUIDELIN.HTM
Payment: $20-$60 (Aus) / thousand words.
Word Length: Fiction 2,000-8,000 words. Response time is one month.
Rights: First Australian Serial Rights, non-exclusive electronic rights, and non-exclusive anthology rights.
Publisher: Chimaera Publications.
Address: Aurealis, Chimaera Publications, PO Box 2164, Mt. Waverley, Victoria 3149, Australia.
Back Brain Recluse -
Description: publishes some of the most startling and daring SF currently being written, and has developed a cult following around the world through a policy of emphasizing the experimental and uncommercial end of the form.
Guidelines: currently closed for submissions.
Submission Needs: seeks new fiction that ignores genre pigeonholes. We tread the thin line between experimental speculative fiction and avant-garde literary fiction.
Payment: £10,($15)per 1,000 words on publication.
Rights: 1st Eng. Lang. rights.
Editor: Chris Reed
Address: PO Box 625, Sheffield, S1 3GY, UK.
Bare Bones -
Description: BareBones is a quarterly, non-fiction digest magazine focused on vintage and contemporary horror/sci-fi/western in all media: Film, Video, Paperbacks, Comics, Pulps. From the editors of The Scream Factory.
Guidelines: SASE
Submission Needs: Trade Publication. We only accept nonfiction. We like comprehensive articles.
Payment: Payment in copies.
Word Length: No specified word limits on Nonfiction.
Rights: Rights revert to creator upon publication.
Editor: Peter Enfantino and John Seoleri.
Postal Address: Deadline Press Publications, P.O.Box 2808, Apache Junction, AZ 85220.
Black Gate -
Description: Black Gate publishes epic fantasy fiction at all lengths, including novel excerpts, as well as articles, news and reviews.
Submission Needs: About 75% of what we publish is plot-driven epic fantasy with colorful settings and interesting characters, and it is the only genre in which we're always actively buying.
Payment: We pay 3 - 6 cents/word for fiction up to 6,000 words, $240 - $420 from 6,000 to 14,000 words, and 3 cents/word at all greater lengths, on acceptance. We pay 3 cents/word for all non-fiction.
Address: New Epoch Press, Attn: Submissions Dept, 815 Oak Street, St. Charles, IL 60174. Email at: submissions@blackgate.com.
Black Satellite -
Description: Black Satellite is a magazine of weird horror and startling science fiction. Showcasing the talents of new authors and veterans of the small press. Black Satellite hopes to capture some of the spirit of "The Outer Limits," "The Twilight Zone," the Alien movies, or even the old magazine "Argonaut." Black Satellite also includes book and magazine reviews.
Guidelines: http://www.blindside.net/submissions/
Submission Needs: Blindside Publishing is not currently open to any book-length submissions. However, short fiction and poetry is always being looked at for Wicked Hollow and Vacancy magazines, so check each website for their guidelines.
Blindside Editor: Jon Hodges.
Address: Blindside Publishing, 1959 N. Peace Haven Rd., #217, Winston-Salem, NC 27106-4850.
Byzarium Web-Zine -
Description: Byzarium.com is a web-zine dedicated to sci-fi, fantasy and horror fiction.
Submission Needs: We are currently closed to general submissions.
Guidelines: We accept novellas (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc), for monthly serialization. Include the heading "Novella - YOUR TITLE HERE" in the subject line of e-mail.
Word Length: We are mainly interested in work from 500 to 5,000 words in length.
Payment: Pay works out to $10 per chapter. We will pay $5 for stories up to 1,500 words in length, and $10 for all stories over that.
Rights: We buy First Worldwide Electronic Rights, and we require exclusive rights for six months. Unless the author requests otherwise, the story will then be archived for 1 year after those initial 6 months.
Address: byzarium@gmail.com.
Cemetery Dance -
Description: Cemetery Dance magazine continues to be horror fiction's most respected and honored magazine, winning the prestigious World Fantasy Award.
Submission Needs: Love, horror, suspense, crime fiction that is traditional, contemporary, supernatural or psychological. Anything with a dark edge that scares us, makes us uncomfortable, makes us think. Want stories that are powerful, emotional, chilling, disturbing, moody, scary.
Guidelines: No e-mail submissions, proposals, or queries. Response in 4-10 weeks. Please submit a SASE.
Payment: 3 to 5 cents per word upon publication.
Word Length: unsolicited stories up to 5,000 words.
Address: Cemetery Dance, P.O. Box 623, Forest Hill, MD 21050.
Challenging Destiny -
Description: Challenging Destiny is a quarterly magazine that publishes science fiction & fantasy short stories by new & experienced authors from all over the world.
Guidelines: Taking a break from story submissions at this time.
Submission Needs: Want stories where violence is rejected as a means of solving violence. Also want stories with philosophical, political, or religious themes. We don't want stories where the good guy kills the bad guy. We encourage first time authors. No poetry at this time.
Payment: Pays 1 cent Can. per word plus 2 copies of magazine upon publication.
Word Length: Normally between 2,000 and 10,000 words.
Rights: FNASR.
Editors: Dave Switzer, Bob Switzer
Address: Challenging Destiny, 47 Bridgeport Rd E, Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2J 2J4.
Continuum Science Fiction features great stories -
Description: Science fiction with an emphasis on good story-telling and adventure.
Guidelines: Query first. Articles with a scientific or technological focus, author interviews or profiles, artwork (query first), book, movie and TV reviews.
Word Length: 2,000-12,000 words.
Payment: $10.00 articles. ($25.00 maximum).
Rights: I will be paying for first North American serial rights for original works. If you query first, you will possibly save everybody time and effort.
Address: E-mail: editor@continuumsciencefiction.com
Cyber Psychos AOD -
Description: The Magazine of Mental Aberrations" covers the psychological aspects of the arts, fiction, artists, bands, spiritualism, hallucinogenic, personal realities etc.
Guidelines: Currently not accepting anything due to financial and health problems.
Submission Needs: Wants sordid articles, gothic, diverse, transcendental. Fringe fiction which is surreal and/or cerebral, creative technology, occult, comics, film, erotica (fetishes, S/M, horror, science fiction, dark fantasy, darker aspects of psychology.
Not Accepting: Fiction, Poetry, Book Proposals, unsolicited manuscripts at this time.
Word Length: Fiction to 7000 words.
Rights: FNASR
Editor: Jasmine Sailing
Postal Address: Cyber-Psychos AOD, P.O. Box 581, Denver CO 80201.
Dark Harbinger Press - DARK SHADES -
Description: Dark Shades is a chronicle of the mysterious and the macabre. It is a small press magazine that is published annually. October 2003 will mark this publication's first issue.
Submission Needs: We like classic and contemporary horror, supernatural horror and dark fantasy. We feature short stories, poetry, articles and reviews from up-and-coming writers.
Guidelines: Format: Hard copy only marked Disposable. Manuscripts should be typed (font size of 12) on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper - double spaced with 1 inch margins. Include name and title in the upper right hand corner of every page. Include name, address, e-mail, title, pages, and word count on title page. A cover letter is fine but not necessary. Mail in manuscript envelope (9x12) and include a SASE for reply.
Payment: Fiction - 3 contributor's copies; Nonfiction - $15.00 plus 2 contributor's copies; Poetry - 2 contributor's copies; Art and Photography - 3 contributor's copies.
Word Length: Up to 6000 words.
Rights: All rights are retained by the respective authors and artists.
Address: 6 Rose Street, Allison, PA 15413.
Darkness Rising -
Description: Regularly scheduled anthology series. Trade paperback, colour covers. It is 160/200 pages long.
Guidelines: E-mail is better. If postal, please send submissions as a disposable typed or word processor produced hard copy, with SAE. If accepted, we will need a copy on disc using Word, or similar format. If sent via e-mail, please send as an attachment in Word or similar. Only unpublished stories, no simultaneous submissions. We will commission artwork. Response is two weeks maximum.
Submission Needs: Ghost, horror, psychological, traditional and modern supernatural stories. New writers welcome.
Word Length: Any length.
Payment: A free copy of the publication your contribution appears in.
Editor: Len Maynard and Mick Sims
Address: 117 Birchanger Lane, Birchanger, Hertfordshire, CM23 5QF, England.
Fables -
Description: Fables publishes speculative fiction of all varieties: fantasy, science fiction, horror, sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, magical realism, science fantasy, time travel, alternate history.
Submission Needs: There are no taboos as far as content or theme, and both serious and humorous stories are welcome, as are cross-genre tales. Great Hall: Closed, Poetry: Open, Crown & Thistle: Closed, Gallery: Closed, Audio: Open, Commentary: Open.
Guidelines: All submissions must be sent electronically to the appropriate editor. Multiple submissions are allowed, but please keep it reasonable. Simultaneous submissions are also okay, but please note that. If the work has been previously published please tell us where and when.
Word Length: Most works are shorts (under 1,000 words) or short stories (1,000-7,499 words). Novelettes (7,500-17,499 words) are published in their entirety in one issue. Novellas (17,500-39,000 words) and novels (40,000 words and up) will be considered for serialization.
Payment: Great Hall, first rights: $10, Great Hall, reprint: $5, Poetry (short): $2, Poetry (30+ lines): $5, Crown & Thistle: $5, Gallery: $15, Audio: $5, Commentary: non-paying.
Rights: For previously unpublished Great Hall stories, we ask for exclusive rights for 90 days (one issue). Fables acquires non-exclusive rights for all other works for a minimum of 90 days (one issue). After that period, works will be archived indefinitely and removed at the creator's request or the editors' discretion. Creators retain their copyright.
Fantasy & Science Fiction -
Description: One of the leading magazines of the science fiction and fantasy field. Award winning fiction by writers like Harlan Ellison, Mike Resnick, Bruce Sterling, Amy Sterling Casil and Mary Soon Lee.
Guidelines: No simultaneous or e-submissions. Please type your manuscript on clean white bond, double spaced, with one inch margins. Put your name on each page, and enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Writers from abroad are encouraged to send recyclable manuscripts with a letter-sized SASE and an International Reply Coupon
Submission Needs: We are looking for stories that will appeal to science fiction and fantasy readers. Needs science fiction and humor, cartoons, art. No nonfiction, simultaneous or electronic submissions.
Payment: 6-9 cents / word upon acceptance.
Word Length: Fiction up to 25,000 words.
Rights: We buy first North American and foreign serial rights and an option on anthology rights.
Postal Address: Gordon Van Gelder, Fantasy and Science Fiction, P.O. Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030.
Ghosts and Scholars -
Description: Magazine of the Modern Ghost Story. Founded in 1979, it is a small press, non-profit journal published twice a year in June and December, with a current circulation of 450. Each issue contains at least 60 pages of new stories, articles, reviews, columns and artwork.
Hadrosaur Tales -
Description: TALES OF THE TALISMAN (formerly Hadrosaur Tales) is a literary journal published quarterly by Hadrosaur Productions and LBF Books. The format is an 86-page, perfect-bound, printed magazine. We publish thought-provoking, literary science fiction and fantasy. Issues are bound, digest format with over 100 pages. Published semi-annually.
Hellnotes Newsletter -
Description: A weekly newsletter dedicated to the horror fan and horror professional alike. Includes interviews and profiles with authors, editors and publishers; book reviews in the horror genre; author news; movie news; convention news; and more.
Mytholog -
Description: A unique quarterly electronic publication. Interested in modern myths or construction of myth, from ancient and traditional to contemporary culture.
Mythos Collector -
Description: The magazine for H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos collectors and readers, published tri-annually in a digest sized saddle stapled format.
Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine -
Description: A new magazine printed quarterly.
Neverary -
Description: A bi-monthly webzine for those who write and enjoy speculative fiction.
Night Terrors -
Description: Twenty-two stories appearing in the first eight issues have received honorable mention in The Years Best Fantasy and Horror.
Pale Fire Fiction -
Description: A new e-zine specializing in convention-busting genre fiction.
Samsara -
Description: The Magazine of Suffering. Samsara accepts mainstream, science fiction, fantasy, and horror that has suffering as its theme.
Saucy Tales of the Supernatural -
Description: A small press e-zine dedicated to bringing you spooky tales of weird menace and dangerous adventure.
Science Fiction Romance -
Description: Monthly newsletter with market news, how-to articles, interviews and inspirational essays for authors of SF romances, with an online bookstore.
SF Site -
Description: The SF Site is dedicated to the best in science fiction and fantasy, in print and media, on the Web and off. We will continue to expand the site to include our feature reviews, news, indexed links to the best SF sites on the World Wide Web, interviews with SF writers and artists, and much more.
Speculations -
Description: Speculations is a twice-Hugo-nominated bimonthly print magazine for writers who wish to break into or increase their presence within the science fiction, fantasy, horror, or "other" speculative fiction genres.
Supernova -
Description: A Russian magazine featuring SF and Fantasy by authors from all over the world; book reviews, analytical articles, articles discussing new advances in sciences and understanding of society.
Sword and Sorcery -
Description: Non-fiction and fiction (quarterly semi-pro e-zine Flashing Swords) dedicated to sword & sorcery, sword & planet, & swashbuckling historicals. Also has critique groups.
Talebones -
Description: We publish fiction with a dark slant, stories and poems with punch, experimental or psychological, laced with black humor, or on the dark edge.
Wicked Hollow -
Description: Wicked Hollow is horror for your pocket, so small it's the size of a man's wallet. Each issue is eighty-four pages with a card stock cover containing fiction, poetry, and art of a horrific nature, stretching into science fiction, fantasy, westerns, romance, and more.
.Worlds of Wonder -
Description: A webzine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Guidelines: Article ideas should preferably be discussed with the editors first.
Submission Needs: The Newsletter does not publish new stories (or poetry), nor does it cover the wider field of fiction 'in the M.R. James tradition' by more recent writers. Subject is confined to M.R. James, friends, and associates. Would like stories on interesting facets of M.R. .James's stories. Also need queries and shorter articles for 'Notes and Queries Section.
Payment: 3 Copies.
Word Length: 8,000 words, shorter articles = 1,500 words, artwork = 6" x 8.25" including margin (landscape format).
Rights: FNASR.
Address: Rosemary Pardoe (editor), 36 Hamilton Street, Hoole, Chester, CH2 3JQ, England. E-mail:
Guidelines: Send only complete manuscript or e-mail submissions. Send a sample of any artwork. We read stories from May 1 to June 15, and November 1 to December 15.
Submission Needs: Postal submissions should be prepared in standard manuscript format. No graphic violence, cliché-fantasy, or copyrighted characters unless you hold the copyright. Also need science fiction and fantasy artwork.
Payment: Payment is $6.00 and 2 copies for stories, $2.00 + 2 copies for poems.
Word Length: 6,000 words for stories, poems to 50 lines.
Rights: One time rights, except for cover art which we request limited advertising rights in addition to the one-time rights.
Editor: David L. Summers.
Address: Tales of the Talisman, P.O, Box 8468, Las Cruces, NM 88006-8468.
Submission Needs: Trade Magazine: Nonfiction only.
Word Length: Word limits are generally 300-1,000 words, with author interviews as much as 2,000 words.
Payment: Five cents per word.
Rights: We purchase first North American rights only, all rights revert to the author after the article has appeared in the newsletter, though some articles also do a short three-month run on our website.
Postal Address: Hellnotes, 27780 Donkey Mine, Oak Run, CA 96069.
Guidelines: Put submissions in body of e-mail or as attached file (.txt). Put "For Publication" in subject line. No simultaneous submissions.
Submission Needs: Short fiction, flash, poetry, serials, graphic fiction, essays, illustrations.
Word Length: One submitted item per e-mail.
Payment: Currently non-paying. Rights: First world electronic rights.
Guidelines: Any submitted Mythos fiction should attempt to get away from being simply a pastiche of Lovecraft. Set the story in the modern world, or in the future, or any other cross genre mode. Concentrate on telling a good story with real characters, then let the Mythos elements shine through. MC is published two times per year.
Submission Needs: Mythos Collector (MC) seeks articles about collecting material related to H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos; including comics, games, books, movies, etc. Also seeking reviews of new and old books, videos, comics, just about anything Lovecraft related. Seeking interviews with Mythos writers, artists, critics, editors, publishers, etc. MC publishes two or three Mythos stories per issue, and some poetry as well. MC also publishes original artwork, preferably pen/ink drawings.
Payment: 2 copies
Word Length: Fiction and nonfiction from 500 - 5000 words, prefer 3,000 words.
Rights: FNASR.
Address: P.O. Box 748, Boylston, MA 01505.
Guidelines: Font 12 or 14, single sided, double-spaced, name, address, page count, pages numbered, SASE. Accepts by e-mail, type 'submission' in subject line, include e-mail with info. No simultaneous submissions.
Art Guidelines: Professional, realistic work. Send 4 - 6 copies.
Submission Needs: Stories: will consider by pro or amateur, entertaining, thought provoking stories.
Fact articles: with professional credentials and/or listed research.
Opinion Articles: relating to science, sci-fi, fantasy, movies, books. No politics, race or religious articles in bad taste.
Payment: Stories purchased at 2.5 cents (Canadian) per word, two copies of issue story appears in.
Rights: First North American serial rights.
Address: 4129 Carey Road, Victoria, B.C. V8Z 4G5.
Guidelines: E-subs only. No attachments. Send in body of plain text e-mail with bio and address. Acknowledge if it is a reprint, from where.
Submission Needs: Spec-fic related commentary, nonfiction, how to write better spec-fic articles, humor. Short spec-fic and poetry includes fantasy, sci-fi, horror, magical realism, alternate history, slipstream, flash.
Word Length: Nonfiction: up to 1,000 words. Short spec-fic: up to 3,000 words. Spec Poetry: up to 40 lines.
Rights: I buy exclusive web rights for first four months, and non-exclusive web archiving rights in perpetuity. I reserve the right to edit for spelling, grammar, brevity, or clarity.
Payment: Each Editor's Choice article (announced upon publication) will receive $5.00. All other pieced will receive $1.00. Short spec-fic is $2.00 each. Spec Poetry = $1.00.
Submission Needs: Now accepting new material.
Payment: We pay in copies (2) at this time.
Word Length: Send only stories in the 2,000 word to 5,000 word range.
Rights: First North American Serial Rights and One Time Electronic Rights.
Address: 1202 West Market Street, Orrville, Ohio 44667-1710.
Submission Needs: We focus on fantasy, sci-fi, occasionally horror but we accept stories from any genre. We like odd, unusual, risky.
Guidelines: We can't read most documents created in Word. We use a Mac. Any docs in rich text format will work. More guidelines are listed on website.
Payment: payment on acceptance -- $10.00.
Rights: When we decide to publish your story, we'll send you a letter describing which rights we're purchasing.
Address: Only e-mail. palefirepress@ameritech.net.
Submission Needs: Query first before sending your manuscript because Samsara has an irregular reading schedule. Electronic queries are okay, but we do not accept electronic submissions at this time.
Payment: One contributor's copy.
Word Length: 500-5,000 words.
Rights: FNASR.
Postal Address: P.O.Box 367, College Park MD 20741-0367.
Guidelines: We prefer to read unsolicited manuscripts from new and previously unpublished authors. No reprints. Accepts e-subs only in MS Word.
Submission Needs: We want ghost stories, vampires, zombies, witches, werewolves, mad scientists, weird menace, supernatural detective stories, weird westerns, over-the-top space opera. We like an evil mastermind, a haunted house, creaking doors, the Loch Ness monster. We don't want splatter punk, cannibals, gratuitous sex or gore, fan fiction.
Word Length: Under 5,000 words.
Payment: only in feedback and exposure.
Rights: Author retains all rights.
Address: Email submissions to our fiction editor: saucytales@mad.scientist.com
Guidelines: http://www. sfronline.com/newsletter.htm
Payment: Not a paying market. Will receive a byline if your article is accepted and a free 3 line ad in the newsletter issue with your article.
Word Length: 200-1500 words.
Rights: Requests one-time print rights and non-exclusive electronic rights. Articles will not be posted on the web site if author requests.
Submission Needs: The SF Site is not looking for contributors at the present time.
Address: SF Site, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 302, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5P5.
Guidelines: http://www.speculations.com.
Submission Needs: Trade Magazine, nonfiction only. We print articles, interviews, instruction, research, etc., if you are a professional writer.
Payment: 3 cents/word.
Rights: First North American Serial Rights.
Address: Speculations, PMB 400, 1111 West El Camino Real #109-400, Sunnyvale, CA 94087-1057.
Guidelines: We prefer postal mail submissions.
Submission Needs: SF and Fantasy short stories, not horror.
Payment: Copy and promotion in Russian book market.
Word Length: Fiction from 5000 to 8000 words and novelettes of 10,000 words.
Address: Supernova, Moscow State University Science Park, room 512 Lengory, Moscow, Russia 119899.
Guidelines: Flashing Swords welcomes reprints. Submit your story as body text within an e-mail.
Payment 3k to 6k preferred, 1 cent a word, $60.00 maximum. Flashing Swords welcomes reprints. Submit your story as body text within an e-mail.
Address: Howard A. Jones at: sandseditor@sigecom.net.
Guidelines: No simultaneous subs.
Submission Needs: Vignettes and short-shorts considered. Will consider nonfiction articles on the state of speculative fiction and related to the focus of the magazine. Poetry in all forms and themes suitable for our content and focus.
Payment: 1-2 cents /word, poetry pays a flat rate of $7.00.
Word Length: Fiction to 6000 words.
Rights: We purchase 1st North American Serial Rights and sometimes 1st Electronic Rights. All subsidiary rights released upon publication.
Editors/Publishers: Patrick & Honna Swenson.
Address: Talebones,5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092.
Guidelines: Reprints accepted if you inform us in your cover letter. Simultaneous submissions are discouraged.
Submission Needs: Urban, rural, foreign, psychological, supernatural, quiet, monster, hardcore, bizarre, gothic, romantic, dark fantasy, science fiction horror, historical, western, erotic horror.
Payment: At start-up, payment is nominal. All stories accepted will be paid $5, poems $2 and one copy of the issue in which you appear.
Word Length: No stories over 4,000 words. If you have a story of 12,000 - 20,000 words, submit it to the annual WH supplement, Wicked Gluttony.
Address: 1959 N. Peace Haven Rd., #217 Winston-Salem, NC 27106-4850.
Guidelines: Send submission as an attachment (MS Word.doc). We accept simultaneous submissions if you let us know. We accept multiple submissions, but only one story or poem per e-mail. We accept reprints but we need to know where story appeared so we can give the credit back. No fan fiction or stories with copyrighted characters. We do not accept Fan Fiction or stories with copyrighted characters. We do not accept Reprints.
We do not accept Simultaneous submissions.
Submission Needs: Fantasy, SF, Flash Fiction, and Poetry.
Payment: Short stories: $5.00, Poems: $5.00, Serials: $10 (flat rate). All payments are in Canadian dollars and will be made via Paypal.
Word Length: Stories: Short Fiction submissions should be between 1000 & 7500 words in length. Serials should be between 8000 & 40,000 words in length. All Serials must be complete before they will be considered for publication. Flash Fiction submissions should be between 200 & 1000 words in length. We do not have a line limit when it comes to Poetry.
Rights: non-exclusive, One-time Electronic (World Wide Web) Publishing rights to your work for the quarter in which your short story or poem appears. These rights will revert back to you once the story has been published. Copyright remains yours at all times.
Address: 12927-132 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada. T5L 3R2.