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"Collecting all things speculative fiction and orbiting subjects."
Introduction
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Response Time
8 weeks / 77 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      Yes

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      Payment

      $25-280

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    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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Types of Submissions Accepted

5 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

fantasy

horror

scienceFiction

speculative

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Science fiction, speculative, and slipstream poetry. Up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, which ever is shorter.

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

Max pieces: 1

Non-Fiction Essays or Columns. For essays you may send queries first.

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Art

Frivolous Comma publishes original art alongside each story. This artwork will be commissioned or selected by the fiction editors to accompany the story's tone and content. We're looking for full color work with depth, texture, and thoughtful composition.

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Review

Max words: 3500

Max pieces: 1

Reviews/book round-ups through a personal/memoir lens.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

fantasy

horror

scienceFiction

speculative

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Science fiction, speculative, and slipstream poetry. Up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, which ever is shorter.

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

Max pieces: 1

Non-Fiction Essays or Columns. For essays you may send queries first.

art genre icon

Art

Frivolous Comma publishes original art alongside each story. This artwork will be commissioned or selected by the fiction editors to accompany the story's tone and content. We're looking for full color work with depth, texture, and thoughtful composition.

Magazine

Founded in 2022 | United Kingdom

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 :)

Chirag Richards-Desai
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

1

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

77 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/77 days

Fastest response time

77 days

Slowest response time

77 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

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1 pieces