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General theme

CREATURE

Guidelines

"Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork."

Current Theme

CREATURE

"Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

1 month / 12 days

Acceptance Rate

5.71%

  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    No

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

2 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Also hold monthly flash fiction contests between the 1st and 15th of each month. For fiction under 1000 words

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Send us all types of poetry, including traditional forms. Each poem must be no longer than 2-pages in length.

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Also hold monthly flash fiction contests between the 1st and 15th of each month. For fiction under 1000 words

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Send us all types of poetry, including traditional forms. Each poem must be no longer than 2-pages in length.

Statistics

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Track submission

38

Total submissions tracked

12 days

Average response time

5.71%

Average acceptance rate

2 days

Fastest response time

20 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 42 days

How to submit

Process

We use Moksha.

Cover letters

In your cover letter, please add content warnings for sexual assualt, animal abuse, or graphic violence.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Format the work using the Shunn manuscript (but we don't need your physical address or phone #) Please only use Times New Roman or Arial font in your document. Name the file using the work title and your last name.

Rights for published work

We purchase the right to publish the story online and in the quarterly edition. Rights will revert back to the artist after one year.

Additional info

Pays! Apparition is a semi-pro rate magazine, paying $0.05 per word, minimum of $50.00 dollars for short stories and a flat fee of $50 per poem. Don't accept simultaneous submissions

About the Magazine

Founded in 2017 | United States

Speculative fiction is weird, almost unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. We want strange, misshapen stories with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and delicious as broth. Apparition Lit seeks original, unpublished speculative fiction and poetry. Each quarter we open for submissions that meet a chosen theme. The theme can be a word, a phrase or a feeling. We also hold flash fiction contests each month, where the winning story is published online.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Rebecca Bennett

Owner/Senior Editor and Cover Art Director

Tacoma Tomilson

Owner/Senior Editor

Clarke Doty

Owner/Senior Editor

Amy Henry Robinson

Owner/Senior Editor, Poetry Editor, and Webmaster

Maria Schrater

Poetry Editor & Assistant Fiction Editor

Examples

1 pieces from Chill Subs people