Pro fantasy mags for Sep 2021

[anghraine]

I didn't want to update my list of publishing info on Tumblr, given that my notifications are still haunted by the list I posted six years ago, but DW has no reblogging without context option! So, the ones that seemed relevant to my interests w/ the info I extracted, for those who share said interests:

Apex

Open: now
Format: Shunn Standard Manuscript Format (https://www.shunn.net/format/story/). Use .docx.
Cover letter: they want one (no guidelines)
Submissions: no simultaneous, no multiple
Length: 7,500 words max
Payment: $.08; minimum of $50
Preferences:

• “Mind-bending short fiction,” dark and spectacular
• Emphasizes top pros in field

Query: try to respond within 30 days

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Open: now, according to SFWA
Format: Standard Manuscript Format, with name, address, and email on the first page, and running header with last name, title, and pg # on every subsequent page. Attachment should NOT be .docx but .doc or .rtf. Paste the manuscript into the email if those don’t work. Send to submissions@beneath-ceaseless-skies.com with subject line Submission: [Title].
Cover letter: type cover letter into the body of email and mention title of story.
Submissions: no multiple; simultaneous is okay, if mentioned in cover letter, and BCS immediately informed if accepted elsewhere
Length: 15,000 words max
Payment: $.08
Preferences:

• Emphasizes new and/or unpublished writers
• Lots, but core: stories w/ a secondary world setting and some fantasy feel, with a literary approach
• Secondary world w/ qualities bearing on the setting + no urban fantasy or modern/futuristic tech
• Focus on characters
• “Literary but readable”
• Close/limited POV preferred
• Originality; don’t want familiar tropes
• Nothing beyond “R” and no sex/sadistic violence be acted upon children
• Fairy tales/fables don’t really work for them
• No famous people unless it’s really different
• Humor is hit and miss

Query: check slush updates on website

Clarkesworld

Open: now, according to SFWA
Format: Standard Manuscript Format. Send in .docx, .doc, .rtf.
Cover letter: http://neil-clarke.com/short-story-cover-letters/
Submissions: No simultaneous submissions (didn't check for multiple)
Length: 1,000-22,000 words, no exceptions
Payment: $.10/word (PayPal or check)
Preferences:

• SF/F, no horror
• No distinction between style / substance / story / writing, but it needs to be well-written (...obviously…)
• Avoid long paragraphs or typographical trickery bc of onscreen reading
• Suitable for audio
• Fantasy can be folkloric, contemporary, surreal, whatever; don’t like zombies, vampires, werewolves, witches, demonic children, gore, evil civilian government, takeover by whatever party/religion for good or evil, thou/thine, children discovering anything, RPG character’s adventures, puns, theme anthology stuff, “trunk stories” (...)

Query: ?

Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores

Open: the 1st and second day of every month, 12 am (of first) to 12 am (of third), EST.
Format: Standard Manuscript format and .docx; only use letters and numbers in filenames
Cover letter: NO resume
Submissions: No simultaneous or multiple submissions
Length: at least 1,000 words
Payment: $.08/word
Preferences:

• Favors shorter pieces
• SF, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales(!), and eldritch stuff, both serious and humorous, soft and hard.
• Doesn’t care for vampires, werewolves, zombies, monsters, superheroes, Lovecraftian stuff, anthro, robots with feelings, despairing post-apocalyptic stuff, and doesn’t accept horror, hate, blood and guts, explicit language, violence, angsty romance, fanfic, sex, axe-grinding, super depressing stuff, or mockery of grief, suffering, and death.
• Don’t care whether you’re new or established, just about the story

Query: after 12 weeks

Cossmass Infinities

Open: Oct 1st-7th (everyone) and Nov 1st-7th for underrepresented authors
Format: .docx
Cover letter: ?
Submissions: no multiple but simultaneous are fine
Length: short stories (1,000-7,500 words) and novelettes (7,501-17,500 words)
Payment: $.08/word through Paypal
Preferences:

• Encourages new writers
• Original sf/f

Query: 3 months

Daily Science Fiction

Open: now, according to SFWA
Format: .docx
Cover letter: no info, but they want one
Submissions: no simultaneous, no multiple
Length: 100 to 1,500 words
Payment: $.08/word
Preferences:

• Short is favored
• Well-written and ideally character-driven (though they aren’t always the latter); interesting, worthwhile
• No horror, erotica, military SF, iffy about humor

Query: after 4 weeks
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Fantasy and Science Fiction

Open: Yes
Format: Standard: https://www.sfwa.org/2008/11/07/manuscript-preparation/. Send in .doc, .docx, or .rtf.
Cover letter: No summary of the story
Submissions: No simultaneous or multiple submissions.
Length: flash up to 25,000 words; give the actual count, not an estimation.
Payment: 8-12 cents per word
Preferences: https://fandsf.moksha.io/publication/fsf/guidelines
Query: 90 days