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"Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork."
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"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
Acceptance Rate
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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38
Total submissions tracked
12 days
Average response time
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
