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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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Acceptance Rate
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.
Statistics
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13
Total submissions tracked
14 days
Average response time
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
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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
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John Benson
Editor-in-Chief
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