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"A genre lit mag exploring the fusion of organic and synthetic expression. "

"A genre lit mag exploring the fusion of organic and synthetic expression. "

Vibe

Weird / outsider / wtf even is it

Response Time

1-2 months

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Sci-fi, horror, fantasy, weird fiction.

Nonfiction

Max words: 7000

Poetry

Max pieces: 2

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Sci-fi, horror, fantasy, weird fiction.

Nonfiction

Max words: 7000

Poetry

Max pieces: 2

Statistics

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How to submit

Process

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Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

Additional Note: The issue is illustrated with collages constituted with Midjourney images I prompted to represent the work of the authors or that the authors provided themselves. For the sake of transparency, all of the generated images were prompted without using any living artist as a direct reference (i.e. no “in the style of ____” for anyone who hasn’t been dead for many years. The only named artist in my prompts was William Blake, who is lovably very dead.) I did use public domain/royalty free stock art from rawpixel.com as well. To add on that, all fonts are free or public domain fonts available on dafont.com. The amount of compositing, collaging & digital editing post-generation varies from image to image but everything was touched by my “digital” hand. I also searched each AI image to ensure there was no blatant copyrighted reference image, but I’m aware this is not a definitive approach. This issue and the images within will not be available for sale at any point as AI images cannot currently be copyrighted.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2022 | ?

Welcome to the first issue of Cold Signal, a new genre lit mag that hopes, among many things, to explore the fusion of organic and synthetic expression. This is a broad and vague mission by design. My desire from the get go was that Cold Signal would become a place for innovative, inclusive and sincere art that looks at our current hopes and fears, our evolutions and decay, through stories, poems, and exploratory forms, blending horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird lit to try to reflect something vital and interesting about life.

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 :)

John Chrostek

Editor-in-Chief