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"The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz."

"The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz."

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

2 months / 56 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    No

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    No

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 25000

Max pieces: 1

Translation

Max words: 25000

Art

Since we use so little art—just six covers a year, no interiors—we have no separate artist's guidelines.

Fiction

Max words: 25000

Max pieces: 1

Translation

Max words: 25000

Art

Since we use so little art—just six covers a year, no interiors—we have no separate artist's guidelines.

Statistics

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Track submission

15

Total submissions tracked

56 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

1 days

Fastest response time

109 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Moksha.

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Rights for published work

We buy first North American and foreign serial rights and an option on anthology rights. All other rights are retained by the author.

Additional info

F&SF encourages original submissions from the world, from diverse voices, classes, and perspectives, and we welcome works that are intergenerational and intersectional. Concentrated on speculative fiction: fantasy, science fiction, horror, unclassified works. Do not accept simultaneous submissions. We prefer not to see more than one submission from a writer at a time. Payment is 8-12 cents per word on acceptance.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1949 | United States

Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers: • compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock and many others; • the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films and Science; • humor from our cartoonists and writers.

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 :)

C.C. Finlay

Editor-in-Chief

Examples

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