New year, new submissions! It’s time to dust off those slush pile stories, refine them, and get them back into the hands of editors! Here’s five places currently open for submissions:
Directly from their site: DEADLINE MAY 1, 2024
NonBinary Review, our award-winning themed lit journal is published quarterly. Each issue revolves around a specific theme, but we're asking contributors to go beyond the old familiar media tropes - we want speculative work that looks at our theme from unexpected angles.
We're looking for work we can read with our whole body - work that gives us goosebumps, makes us see the world differently, has the tang of authenticity, makes us sit up and listen, and smells like....something. This analogy got out of hand. What we're saying is that we're not looking for re-hashes of images or stories we've read before. We want contributors to explore every facet of our themes, really getting in between the cracks, in the corners, all the forgotten places that no one ever thinks to explore. We want to read work that makes us think "I never would have thought of this, and yet, it's so fitting!"
What we're NOT looking for is work that centers violence, rape, misogyny, racism, ableism, or degrading stereotypes of any kind. We know you're not that kind of writer, but we thought it should be said.
NonBinary Review accepts reprints, but we do ask for previous publication details so they can be credited.
Prose submissions (for which we pay 1¢ per word) should be 3000 words or fewer in length, double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman font or similar.
Poetry submissions (for which we pay a $10 flat fee) should include no more than 3 poems, each of which may be up to 3 pages in length. Please include each poem as a separate file.
Art submissions (for which we pay a $25 flat fee) should include no more than 5 pieces. Each piece should be at least 300dpi, and at least 600 pixels on its smallest side. Any piece chosen for cover art will pay $50. We do not accept any submission that consists of links to an artist's website.
DEADLINE: We will be opening the submissions window for the SPRING/SUMMER Issue on Jan. 22, 2024 at 12 AM, EST., and closing it on Jan. 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM., EST.
The FALL/WINTER submissions window will be June 17, 2024 at 12 AM, EST., and closing on June 24, 2024 at 11:59 PM, EST.
There will be two issues.
DIRECT FROM THEIR WESBITE:
New Fairy Tales: Fairy tales that are inspired by classic tales are what we are seeking. Mashups of classic fairy tales are welcome as well. Submissions must follow the theme below to be considered.
Poetry: Poetry inspired by fairy tales and that follows the theme is also welcome.
We are not seeking art or nonfiction.
The theme for the year is simply classic fairy tales—more below.
HERE IS HOW YOU SUBMIT AND FORMAT AND WHEN
Only the kind of submissions outlined below will be accepted at
The Fairy Tale Magazine (FTM) in 2024.
Here are the submission periods for both stories and poems:
We will be opening the submissions window for the SPRING/SUMMER Issue on Jan. 22, 2024 at 12 AM, EST., and closing it on Jan. 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM., EST.
The FALL/WINTER submissions window will be June 17, 2024 at 12 AM, EST., and closing on June 24, 2024 at 11:59 PM, EST.
There will be two issues.
(There will be one contest this year, during the summer. Details will be announced later in the year.)
No submissions will be considered or acknowledged if received outside of the windows stated above.
You submit through email only. Please use this address only:
thefairytalemagazine@gmail.com. That is for submissions only.
Maleficent An Anthology of Queer Disabled Villainy
Direct from their site: DEADLINE FEB 29, 2024
Maleficence
An Anthology of Queer Disabled Villainy
An anthology where disabled villains take the stage. Vampires in wheelchairs, necromancers with IBS, blind enchanters--we want it all. We want them visibly queer and irredeemably rotten.
This is not a space for ableist language or themes. We are going to showcase the very dastardliest of villains who are also disabled, not villains who are evil because of or "in spite of" their disabilities.
2k-6k wordcount limit (but not a HARD limit. It is okay if your wordcount goes a little over 6k, we won't mind.)
Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please no multiple submissions.
Payment: $15 + Contributor's Copy
Please submit as a .DOC or .DOCX using Standard Manuscript Format.
Send submissions to uncrownedtheseries [@] gmail [dot] com.
Please include "Maleficence Submission" in your subject line!
Publication date: September 2024.
NO Reprints.
We are asking for 6-month exclusive first print and ebook publication rights, with non-exclusive rights after.
Submissions are open from Dec. 1 2023-Feb. 29, 2024
Happy writing!