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Guidelines

"We publish experimental literary speculative fiction."

"We publish experimental literary speculative fiction."

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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

1 week / 11 days

Acceptance Rate

2.38%

  • Payment

    Yes: $0.08 per word

  • 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: 1200

All stories must contain significant speculative elements

Poetry

Max pieces: 1

Speculative elements must be significant. We accept a maximum of three poems per calendar month. All forms and styles.

Art

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 1200

All stories must contain significant speculative elements

Poetry

Max pieces: 1

Speculative elements must be significant. We accept a maximum of three poems per calendar month. All forms and styles.

Art

No specific limitations

Statistics

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Track submission

45

Total submissions tracked

11 days

Average response time

2.38%

Average acceptance rate

0 days

Fastest response time

63 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 81 days, 136 days, 152 days, 310 days

How to submit

Process

We use email.

Cover letters

A cover letter is expected. This needn’t be long or detailed. In the body of the letter, include your name, the title of your story, its length, its genre or subgenre, up to three previous publications, and any other information you deem relevant.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Stories need not necessarily follow Standard Manuscript Format, but it is preferred. The font should be 12-point Times New Roman.

Rights for published work

Orion’s Belt pays for first worldwide electronic and print rights and for non-exclusive reprint rights.

Additional info

Pays! $.08 per word.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2021 | United States

Orion’s Belt is a literary speculative-fiction online magazine. We specialize in the strange and poignant and awe-inspiring, stories that have a cosmic scale and intimate personal stakes. Currently, we publish fiction and poetry, one story and one poem per month. All submissions must be 1200 words or less. Speculative fiction for us encompasses a wide range of fiction that includes non-realist elements. While we focus on science-fiction and fantasy, we’re open to slipstream, horror, magic realism, myth retellings, surrealism, superhero stories, and all other fantastical genres and subgenres. The “literary” qualifier simply means we like stories focusing on internal and interpersonal conflicts. Don’t give us people saving the world unless you can make us care about the people doing the saving. It also means we want stories that are sharply, intelligently written. We highly prize the craft of writing. This doesn’t mean you have to be Faulkner or Shakespeare, and it certainly doesn’t mean we want stories peppered with purple prose and thesaurus-words. It does mean that we care as much about form as we do about content. How a story is told is as important to us as what it is about. Speculative fiction gives us the opportunity to imagine other worlds, but we can also use it to help us better understand our own little blue marble floating through the depths of space. We follow in the tradition of science-fiction pioneer Darko Suvin and his concept of “cognitive estrangement,” in which the strangeness of different worlds provides readers with a lens through which to observe the strangeness in our own worlds. This is more than mere allegory. It’s an awakening to a higher level of awareness. In our view, the best speculative fiction does more than offer escapism. It facilitates a better understanding of the self and the other.

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 :)

Joshua Fagan

Editor-in-Chief

Lindsey Ragsdale

Fiction Editor

Jenelle DeCosta

Fiction Editor

December Cuccaro

Fiction Editor

Jenna Hanchey

Poetry Editor

Elise Le Bihan

Poetry Editor

Examples

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