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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."
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Introduction

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
a few days / 3 days
Average acceptance rate
9.09%

Types of Submissions Accepted

2 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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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

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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 genre icon

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 genre icon

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

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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 🏗️

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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

Contributors on Chill Subs

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1 pieces