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"We publish experimental literary speculative fiction."
"We publish experimental literary speculative fiction."
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Response Time
Acceptance Rate
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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46
Total submissions tracked
12 days
Average response time
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
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