EA is a US-based media company, specializing in free-to-listen short fiction podcasts including the original science fiction podcast, Escape Pod. The world’s premier horror fiction podcast.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 60 days after submission*/Editor reported data58 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data3.20%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
Runs themed calls
How to submit
Processs
Moksha
Cover letter
In your cover letter, please include your name and the story’s publication history. If you have any previous publications, feel free to list the most recent three, but this is optional and won’t affect your story’s consideration. The cover letter can be really simple: “Dear Editors, here is previously-unpublished story titled Some Story, thanks, My Name” is absolutely fine.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Send us your manuscript as a text file (.rtf, .doc, .docx, or .odt), double-line spaced and formatted in Times New Roman or a similar font. Please DON’T include your address or phone number in the header of the document, but please DO include your email address – this is a useful backup in case something goes amiss with the submissions form.
Author's rights
PseudoPod buys nonexclusive audio and text rights, and nonexclusive electronic rights to distribute the audio and text file under a Creative Commons license. Specifically, we use the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Briefly, this means that the entire world has permission to distribute the audio and text files for free, provided they give credit for it, don’t try to make money off of it, and don’t change it in any way. Transcribing it, extracting portions from it that exceed fair use, and mashing it up are all prohibited. This license applies only to our audio performance of your work, and the text of your story on our website, for which we’ve contracted and paid you. You retain your copyright and all rights to any other use of the story.
Additional info
For the current submission period, we will consider one original and one reprint per author. We’re looking for horror: dark, weird fiction. We run the spectrum from grim realism or crime drama, to magic-realism, to blatantly supernatural dark fantasy. We publish highly literary stories reminiscent of Poe or Lovecraft as well as vulgar shock-value pulp fiction. We don’t split hairs about genre definitions, and we do not observe any taboos about what kind of content can appear in our stories. Originality demands that you’re better off avoiding vampires, zombies, and other recognizable horror tropes unless you have put a very unique spin on them. What matters most is that the stories are dark and compelling. We strongly encourage submissions from any underrepresented groups.
Tracker statistics
394
Total submissions tracked
58 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
20 days
Fastest response time
73 days
Slowest response time
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