Apparition Lit
Literary Magazine
Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 1 month*/Editor reported data13 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 1.48%*Chill Subs tracker stats
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FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max words: 5000
Sub Genres: Literary, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative
Payment: $ 0.05 per word
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Payment: $ 50 per piece
How to submit
Processs
Moksha
Cover letter
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.
Author's rights
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
Tracker statistics
670
Total submissions tracked
13 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
2 days
Fastest response time
83 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 427 days
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Submission calls
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All genres
About
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 poet...
Read moreFounded
2017
Country
US
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Editor-in-Chief
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