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    Literary Magazine

    Cast of Wonders

    www.castofwonders.org

    Fiction

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    Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction, founded in 2011.

    Highlights

    • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
    • Response time:
      56 days after submission*
      Editor reported data
       / 
      142 days*
      Chill Subs tracker stats
    • Acceptance rate:
      ?*
      Editor reported data
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      7.72%*
      Chill Subs tracker stats

    Publication

    • Accepts simultaneous submissions

      What's that?

      When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

    • Accepts previously published

      From the editors

      Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media

      What's that?

      When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

    • Nominates for prizes

    • Active on social media

    • Available in print

    • Provides contributor copies

    • Has examples online

    How to submit

    • Processs

      Moksha

    • Cover letter

      There’s also a field for you to enter any of the items we’ve asked you to note in these submission guidelines, confusingly labelled ‘Cover Letter’. Please do not supply a full covering letter or summary of the story, either on the submission form or the manuscript. The information we’re after includes: reprint information (if applicable), if the author is a Young Author or previously unpublished, if the author is part of an under-represented demographic, if the story is #ownvoices, or if it skirts our content guidelines in any way/touches on sensitive topics. For this last point, this allows us to assign appropriate readers. We’d also ask that you don’t include any identifying personal information here.

    • Eligibility

      No specific eligibility requirements

    • Formatting

      The manuscript should be saved and uploaded in any standard word processing file type, such as Word, Google Docs or .RTF. We do not accept PDFs.

    • Author's rights

      EA’s episodes are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. The entire world has permission to download and distribute the audio files for free, provided they properly credit them, don’t offer them for sale, and don’t make any changes. Transcribing it, extracting portions from it that exceed Fair Use, and mashing it up are all prohibited. Check our Legal page for more details.

    • Additional info

      We are particularly interested in considering stories from younger writers. We’re Looking For Stories that evoke a sense of wonder, have deep emotional resonance, and have something unreal about them. We aim for a 12-17 age range: that means sophisticated, non-condescending stories with wide appeal, and without gratuitous or explicit sex, violence or pervasive obscene language. Think Harry Potter or The Hunger Games. We don’t accept media-based fiction or any kind of fan fiction. We run both reprints and original stories, and have no strong preference between the two. We do not accept multiple submissions from an author at the same time. You may only send us a single story at a time, regardless of length.

    Tracker statistics

    252

    Total submissions tracked

    142 days

    Average response time

    7.72%

    Average acceptance rate

    3 days

    Fastest response time

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    The Submissions Grinder Statistics

    6.75%

    12-month average acceptance rate

    65 days

    12-month average response time

    About

    Every week we present short stories from some of today’s best genre fiction writers, featuring everything from hard science fiction, to urban fantasy, horror, steampunk, superheroes and more. Our stories are defined by their deep emotional resonance and that critical spark of wonder. We pay our aut...

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    Founded

    2011

    Country

    US

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      Katherine Inskip

      Editor-in-Chief