Starward Shadows Quarterly

How to submit

• Processs

  Email

• Cover letter

  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.

• Author's rights

  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!