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"This is a quarterly journal of speculative fiction. We are interested in all speculative genres (horror, fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, steampunk, magical realism, etc) up to 5,000 words in length."
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Introduction

This is a quarterly journal of speculative fiction. We are interested in all speculative genres (horror, fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, steampunk, magical realism, etc) up to 5,000 words in length.

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Response Time
133 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Types of Submissions Accepted

1 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

We are interested in all speculative genres (horror, fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, steampunk, magical realism, etc)

fantasy

horror

magicalRealism

scienceFiction

speculative

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

We are interested in all speculative genres (horror, fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, steampunk, magical realism, etc)

fantasy

horror

magicalRealism

scienceFiction

speculative

Need to know for submitting

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    Details

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  • 02

    How to submit 🏗️

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  • 03

    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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  • 04

    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Magazine

Founded in 2008 | 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 :)

Julie Ann Dawson
Editor-in-Chief
Lance Schonberg
Publishing Assistant
Samantha Payne
Publishing Assistant
Brian Koukol
Publishing Assistant
Jorge Rustrian
Publishing Assistant
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

10

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

133 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/133 days

Fastest response time

111 days

Slowest response time

155 days