Open for submissions
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The Colored Lens was created to showcase stories that shift our perspective on the world, through the far-reaching genre of speculative fiction. However, the fundamentals of good storytelling always come first.
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 20000
Max pieces: 5
Speculative Fiction. We publish stories up to 10,000 words, although we prefer stories in the 500-5000 word range. We also publish novellas up to 20,000 words, serialized over multiple issues.
speculative
Art
Max pieces: 3
We are accepting artwork within a speculative fiction element and that casts the world, either the real one or a fantastical one, in a different light than we see every day. Artwork should be submitted in digital format. Artists may submit up to 3 pieces at once, but please wait for a response from us before sending more. Artwork may be resized, but will not be cropped or otherwise altered without the artist’s permission. Please send us artwork that will still look good when resized or reformatted. Artwork may be submitted using our Graphic Art Submissions page .
Fiction
Max words: 20000
Max pieces: 5
Speculative Fiction. We publish stories up to 10,000 words, although we prefer stories in the 500-5000 word range. We also publish novellas up to 20,000 words, serialized over multiple issues.
speculative
Art
Max pieces: 3
We are accepting artwork within a speculative fiction element and that casts the world, either the real one or a fantastical one, in a different light than we see every day. Artwork should be submitted in digital format. Artists may submit up to 3 pieces at once, but please wait for a response from us before sending more. Artwork may be resized, but will not be cropped or otherwise altered without the artist’s permission. Please send us artwork that will still look good when resized or reformatted. Artwork may be submitted using our Graphic Art Submissions page .
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2011 | United States
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 :)
Dawn Lloyd
Editor-in-Chief
Daniel Scott
Executive Editor
Henry Fields
Senior Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
12
Average acceptance rate
9.09%
Average response time
3 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
63/3 days
Fastest response time
0 days
Slowest response time
7 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 54 days, 63 days
