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"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. "

"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. "

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

2 months / 44 days

Acceptance Rate

50%

  • Payment

    Yes: $0.08 per word

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

2 genres

Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

The sweet spot is around 4,500 words which is close to 30 minutes of story.

Fiction

Max words: 1500

Max pieces: 1

We’re looking at fiction under 1,500 words, with a sweet spot between 500 and 1000 words.

Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

The sweet spot is around 4,500 words which is close to 30 minutes of story.

Fiction

Max words: 1500

Max pieces: 1

We’re looking at fiction under 1,500 words, with a sweet spot between 500 and 1000 words.

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Track submission

10

Total submissions tracked

44 days

Average response time

50%

Average acceptance rate

27 days

Fastest response time

61 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Moksha.

Cover letters

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 The cover letter can be really simple: “Dear Editors, here is previously-unpublished story titled Some Story, thanks, My Name” is absolutely fine.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.

Rights for published work

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.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2006 | United States

For over a decade, PseudoPod has been bringing you the best short horror in audio form, to take with you anywhere. We pay our authors professional rates for original fiction and we reach more people every week than any other short fiction horror market. PseudoPod is a genre magazine in audio form. 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.

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 :)

Shawn Garrett

Editor-in-Chief

Alex Hofelich

Co-Editor

Examples

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