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"Not One of Us is about people (or things) out of place in their surroundings, outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the SF sense—anyone excluded from society for whatever the reason. We’d like to consider the problem of “otherness” from every possible fictional angle."

"Not One of Us is about people (or things) out of place in their surroundings, outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the SF sense—anyone excluded from society for whatever the reason. We’d like to consider the problem of “otherness” from every possible fictional angle."

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Response Time

14 days

Acceptance Rate

11.11%

  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes

  • Examples online

    No

  • Active on social media

    No

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

We prefer poems of 40 lines or less, although we’re willing to read longer poems.

Art

Query with samples. Artwork takes the form of story illustrations plus theme-related front and back covers.

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

We prefer poems of 40 lines or less, although we’re willing to read longer poems.

Art

Query with samples. Artwork takes the form of story illustrations plus theme-related front and back covers.

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Track submission

13

Total submissions tracked

14 days

Average response time

11.11%

Average acceptance rate

13 days

Fastest response time

15 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 7 days, 21 days, 46 days

How to submit

Process

Send electronic submissions to john@not-one-of-us.pub.

Cover letters

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

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

We prefer Word or RTF attachments (do not send submissions in PDF), but it’s OK to embed submissions.

Rights for published work

We assume first serial rights, with rights reverting to the author/poet upon publication.

Additional info

Themes to avoid: vampires, alcoholic villains without any understanding of their motives, tales about writers, sword and sorcery, deals with the devil, and revenge stories that have no other point, especially if the punishment far exceeds the crime.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1986 | United States

The editorial philosophy of the magazine reflects my own personal taste in genre fiction. To me the scariest and most deeply moving horror stories are not about monsters or about good vs. evil, but rather about the reader’s own fears and discomforts. Similarly, for Not One of Us, fantasy isn’t about pseudo-medieval worlds, science fiction isn’t about space opera or funny-sounding names, Westerns are not about gunfights. In our magazine, it’s all about the characters. We crave characters (human or otherwise) who are different and who act the way they do out of plausible (if occasionally insane) motives. All the wondrous settings and complex plots in the world will fail to convince me if at the center of the tale there isn’t a protagonist with whom I can somehow empathize. I don’t have to like that character: heaven knows we’ve had some pretty nasty protagonists, and empathy is not the same as excuse-making. But I want to get some insight into the character, and vicariously into myself.

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 Benson

Editor-in-Chief

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