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"a Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy monthly magazine that publishes short stories, interviews, articles and audio fiction. Issues are published monthly and available on our website, for purchase in ebook format"
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Open for submissions

Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
2 weeks / 1 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      No

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      $0-2640

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      Only for accepted cover art: two copies of the print edition.

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      No

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

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    Cover Letter and Bio ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

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    Rights for published work ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

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Types of Submissions Accepted

4 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Discussions of the genre publishing business, essays on the writing process and the reading experience, scientific material that might be of use in SF stories, and so on.

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Fiction

Max words: 22000

Science fiction and fantasy. No horror, but dark SF/F is permitted.

fantasy

scienceFiction

translations genre icon

Translations

Max words: 22000

even if the work has been previously published in another language

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Art

digital or traditional 2D paintings and illustrations

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 2500

Discussions of the genre publishing business, essays on the writing process and the reading experience, scientific material that might be of use in SF stories, and so on.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 22000

Science fiction and fantasy. No horror, but dark SF/F is permitted.

fantasy

scienceFiction

translations genre icon

Translations

Max words: 22000

even if the work has been previously published in another language

art genre icon

Art

digital or traditional 2D paintings and illustrations

Magazine

Founded in 2006 | 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 :)

Neil Clarke
Editor-in-Chief
Sean Wallace
Editor
Kate Baker
Podcast Director, Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

11

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

1 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/1 days

Fastest response time

1 days

Slowest response time

2 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 8 days