Open for submissions
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
No
Previously published
No
Payment
8¢/word $1/line
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
No
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Important stuff
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 20000
Max pieces: 1
Asimov’s pays 8-10 cents per word for short stories up to 7,500 words, and 8 cents for each word over 7,500. We seldom buy stories shorter than 1,000 words or longer than 20,000 words, and we don’t serialize novels.
scienceFiction
Poetry
Max lines: 40
Max pieces: 1
We pay $1 a line for poetry, which should not exceed 40 lines.
Fiction
Max words: 20000
Max pieces: 1
Asimov’s pays 8-10 cents per word for short stories up to 7,500 words, and 8 cents for each word over 7,500. We seldom buy stories shorter than 1,000 words or longer than 20,000 words, and we don’t serialize novels.
scienceFiction
Poetry
Max lines: 40
Max pieces: 1
We pay $1 a line for poetry, which should not exceed 40 lines.
Magazine
Founded in 1977 | United States
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 :)
Sheila Williams
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
8
Average acceptance rate
12.5%
Average response time
45 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
160/29 days
Fastest response time
0 days
Slowest response time
160 days