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"Starward Shadows Quarterly is an online dark speculative fiction magazine. We’re interested in exploring the wicked, strange places that walk the line between reality and nightmare—the alien, the absurd, and above all else, the weird."
"Starward Shadows Quarterly is an online dark speculative fiction magazine. We’re interested in exploring the wicked, strange places that walk the line between reality and nightmare—the alien, the absurd, and above all else, the weird."
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Send us your best but less intimidating
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Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes: $0.01 per word
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provides contributor copies
Yes: 1 digital
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
2 genres
Fiction
Max words: 6000
Max pieces: 1
Fiction
Max words: 1500
Max pieces: 3
Fiction
Max words: 6000
Max pieces: 1
Fiction
Max words: 1500
Max pieces: 3
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How to submit
Process
Submissions should be sent in Standard Manuscript Format to publisher@starwardshadows.com All stories should be attached to the email in .doc, .docx or .rtf format.
Cover letters
All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter detailing the story’s title, genre, and word count, along with a very brief description of the plot. Please include your name, publication credits, and any professional memberships, awards, and noteworthy accomplishments as well.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
We would appreciate it if you stuck to readable, tried-and-true fonts as well.
Rights for published work
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Additional info
Things we love: Monsters, vampires, aliens, psychological horror, first-person unreliable narrators, eloquence, themes of neurodivergence, angst done right (think “Interview with the Vampire), death cults, weird religious undertones, wraiths, trickster kings, black metal, stories where the bad guys win, character-driven narratives, and stories that take place somewhere strange and far away where humanity isn’t even mentioned at all. Things we hate: Post-apocalyptic settings, dystopian fiction, parodies, rock-hard SF, zombies, mermaids, sirens, pandemic stories (we lived it and we’re sick of it), and political and/or moral soapboxes. If you’re going to send us anything falling into these categories, you’d better have completely and utterly reinvented it for it not to get auto-rejected. We’re especially interested in stories by neurodivergent, disabled, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ authors at this time. So if your story is #ownvoices, don’t hesitate to let us know!
About the Magazine
Founded in 2021 | United States
We like weird stuff. If you do too, then we’ll probably like hearing from you. But we’re not sure. Send us stuff and we’ll all find out. Check out our exclusive interview on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein if you want to learn more about our goals and inspirations.
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 :)
Morgan Strange
Editor-in-Chief
Kristian Strange
Founder/Editor/Designer & Illustrator
Examples
1 pieces from Chill Subs people
