| title |
editor |
sf |
f |
h |
medium |
schedule |
pro |
pay |
length |
response |
notes |
| Absolute Magnitude |
Warren Lapine |
SF |
|
|
print |
quarterly |
pro |
2.0 cents |
25000 words |
40 days |
No present tense, police procedural, time travel, clones, alternate history, religious overtones. |
| Alchemy |
Steve Pasechnick |
|
F |
|
print |
? |
|
5.0 cents |
15000 words |
15 days |
All types of fantasy including urban fantasy, retold fairy tales, dark fantasy, heroic fantasy. |
| Analog Science Fiction & Fact |
Stanley Schmidt |
SF |
|
|
print |
monthly |
pro |
5.0 cents |
80000 words |
40 days |
Technology must be integral. Prefers 2,000-7,000 words for shorts. |
| Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine |
Robbie Matthews |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
bimonthly |
|
0.7 cents |
10000 words |
25 days |
Query for works longer than 10,000 words. Likes fun, light stories. |
| Artemis |
Ian Randal Strock |
SF |
|
|
print |
quarterly |
pro |
3.0 cents |
15000 words |
70 days |
Near-term, near-Earth, hard science fiction. Especially lunar and space development. Character-oriented stories. |
| Asimov's Science Fiction |
Sheila Williams |
SF |
F |
|
print |
monthly |
pro |
5.0 cents |
15000 words |
70 days |
Borderline fantasy but no sword and sorcery. |
| Chiaroscuro (ChiZine) |
Brett A. Savory |
|
F |
H |
online |
quarterly |
pro |
5.0 cents |
4000 words |
30 days |
Dark. |
| Flashquake |
Debi Orton |
SF |
F |
H |
online |
quarterly |
|
2.5 cents |
1000 words |
40 days |
Literary. Open to any type of writing. |
| Flesh and Blood |
Jack Fisher |
|
F |
H |
print |
quarterly |
|
4.0 cents |
4000 words |
10 days |
Dark. Query for over 4,000 words. No serial killers, zombies, vampires, cats, revenge. Likes subtle and strange. |
| Fortean Bureau |
Jeremy and Sarah Tolbert |
SF |
F |
|
online |
monthly |
|
1.5 cents |
4000 words |
20 days |
Likes exotic locales and a variety of time periods. Most important; weirdness. Not interested in sword and sorcery, high fantasy, or space opera. Max pay $60. |
| Gothic.net |
? |
|
F |
H |
online |
? |
|
3.0 cents |
5000 words |
40 days |
No serial killers, the mad or the ones slowly approaching madness, druggies, vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches, demons, dark angels, the occult, ghosts or the raised dead. |
| Ideomancer |
Amber van Dyk |
SF |
F |
H |
online |
monthly |
|
3.0 cents |
5000 words |
20 days |
Accepts slipstream. Max. pay $100. |
| Interzone |
David Pringle |
SF |
F |
|
print |
monthly |
pro |
5.0 cents |
6000 words |
115 days |
Min. 2,000 words. No hackneyed space opera, sword-and-sorcery tales or traditional ghost stories. |
| Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet |
Gavin J. Grant |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
biannual |
|
0.0 cents |
0 words |
50 days |
Also occasional web edition. No gore, sword and sorcery. Pays, though amount not indicated. (A nice writer informs me it was $10 in his case, but could vary.) Max. length not indicated. Triannual from 2004. |
| Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The |
Gordon Van Gelder |
SF |
F |
|
print |
monthly |
pro |
5.0 cents |
25000 words |
10 days |
Wants more science fiction and humor. |
| On Spec |
Diane Walton |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
quarterly |
|
2.0 cents |
6000 words |
100 days |
For flash (under 1000 words) pays about $33 plus one contributor's copy, for shorts pays up to about $120, plus two copies.
|
| Paradox |
Christopher M. Cevasco |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
triannual |
|
3.0 cents |
9000 words |
95 days |
Three print issues + one PDF issue. All speculative submissions should have some integral real-world historical context. No ultra-technical sci-fi, space opera, vampires, werewolves, gratuitous erotica, or children's stories. Max $450. |
| Polyphony |
Deborah Layne and Jay Lake |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
anthology |
|
6.0 cents |
10000 words |
50 days |
Magic realism, surrealism, literary stories with genre sensibility, hard-to-classify stories with strong literary values. Length open, prefers 4,000-10,000 words. |
| Realms of Fantasy |
Shawna McCarthy |
|
F |
|
print |
bimonthly |
pro |
3.0 cents |
10000 words |
80 days |
Any area in the realms of fantasy. Slush list. |
| Say... |
Christopher Rowe |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
biannual |
|
0.0 cents |
8000 words |
35 days |
Autumn (odd numbered issues) - 1Jun-1 Sep; Spring (even numbered issues) - 1Nov-1Apr. Payment flat $10. |
| SciFiction |
Ellen Datlow |
SF |
F |
|
online |
monthly |
pro |
20.0 cents |
17500 words |
40 days |
Min. 2000 words. No sword and sorcery or space opera. |
| Strange Horizons |
Mary Anne Mohanraj |
SF |
F |
|
online |
weekly |
pro |
5.0 cents |
9000 words |
30 days |
Especially likes urban fantasy. Dark fantasy okay, but no outright horror. |
| Talebones |
Patrick and Honna Swenson |
SF |
F |
|
print |
quarterly |
|
1.0 cents |
6000 words |
40 days |
Science fiction and dark fantasy. Vignettes and Short-shorts also considered. |
| TEL: Stories |
Jay Lake |
SF |
F |
|
print |
|
|
0.0 cents |
0 words |
0 days |
New zine dedicated to the idea that there is no such thing as stylistic excess. $15 plus three contributor's copies. Submissions will be accepted from April 1st to May 15th, 2004. |
| The Third Alternative |
Andy Cox |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
quarterly |
pro |
4.5 cents |
8000 words |
20 days |
Accepts slipstream. Only short stories (no specified length). |
| Vestal Review |
Mark Budman |
SF |
F |
H |
online |
quarterly |
|
3.0 cents |
500 words |
40 days |
Also limited edition print. No children's, syrupy romance or hard science fiction. Loves humor. |
| Weird Tales |
Darrell Schweitzer |
|
F |
H |
print |
bimonthly |
pro |
3.0 cents |
10000 words |
80 days |
Fantasy-based horror, heroic fantasy, and exotic mood pieces. |
| Writers of the Future |
Contest Judges |
SF |
F |
H |
print |
anthology |
pro |
3.0 cents |
17000 words |
110 days |
Stories are winners of the Writers of the Future Contest. Open to "amateurs" only. Three cash prizes each quarter: $1,000, $750, $500. Annual grand prize: additional $4000. |
