All fiction must be submitted through our online submission system. Please do not email your submissions.
Our submissions form asks for your name, email address, cover letter, story title, and story. Your cover letter should contain the length of your story, your publishing history, and any other relevant information. All stories should be in standard manuscript format and can be submitted in either .RTF or .DOC format. Email submissions@fantasy-magazine.com for all fiction-related inquiries, or if you have any trouble using our online submission system.
After you have submitted your story, a tracking number will be displayed and an automated email confirmation containing this information will be sent to you. If you have not received this, email submissions@fantasy-magazine.com to let us know. Your tracking number will allow you to monitor the status of your submission through our website, so please make note of it.
Guidelines for Original Fiction
Fantasy is seeking original fantasy stories of 1500–7500 words. Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred. We pay 5¢/word for original fiction, on acceptance. To see which rights we’re seeking, please view our contract template for original fiction.
All types of fantasy are welcome — high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader — send us stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human while amazing us with your mastery of language and story elements.
We believe that the fantasy genre’s diversity is its greatest strength, and we wish that viewpoint to be reflected in our story content and our submission queues; we welcome submissions from writers of every race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation.
Guidelines for Reprints
Fantasy publishes two reprints each month, but it is primarily a market for original fiction; a majority of our reprints will be directly solicited, but you may submit a reprint for consideration if you wish. For reprints, we are offering 1¢/word, on acceptance. However, we are only interested in considering stories for reprint that are not currently available online in any form. To see which rights we’re seeking, please view our contract template for reprinted fiction.
Rejections & Response Times
Be aware that every month we receive several hundred submissions. As such, we cannot offer personalized feedback on each story. If we say, “send more,” however, it does mean that we hope to see something else from you.
Most rejections will be sent out within two business days, while stories being seriously considered may be held for up to two weeks.
Please do not respond to rejection letters, even just to say “Thanks for the quick turnaround” etc. We appreciate the thought, but it is unnecessary and will just clutter up our editorial inbox.
Summary
Stories should be fantasy only (not science fiction), and be between 1500 and 7500 words long. Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred.
Payment for original fiction is 5¢/word, on acceptance. To see which rights we’re seeking, please view our contract template for original fiction.
Payment for reprinted fiction is 1¢/word, on acceptance. To see which rights we’re seeking, please view our contract template for reprinted fiction.
Additional Notes
As of Oct. 25, 2010, John Joseph Adams is the editor of Fantasy Magazine.
Fantasy is not a market for science fiction. Please submit science fiction stories to our sister publication, Lightspeed.
Sexual themes and stories with strong sexual content are acceptable, but Fantasy is not a market for erotica.
Fantasy is not a market for media-based fiction (i.e., stories set in the Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter universes, etc.), or any kind of fan fiction.
Fantasy is not a market for poetry.
We do not accept simultaneous submissions or multiple submissions.
Do not query for fiction. If you’re not sure if your story is suitable, please simply submit it and let our editors decide.
Please do not re-submit stories that have been rejected by Fantasy Magazine, regardless of editor. Do not query for permission.
If editor John Joseph Adams has previously rejected your story, please do not submit it to Fantasy, unless it was rejected as being unsuitable for the market (due to theme, etc.) or unless it has been significantly revised to the extent that it is no longer the same story.
You may not submit another story for a period of seven days after receiving a rejection.
Fantasy is a SFWA-qualifying professional market.
GUIDELINES FOR NONFICTION
Fantasy publishes four pieces of nonfiction in each issue. All nonfiction is solicited in-house, but if you would like to write nonfiction for Fantasy, use our Contact Us form to email nonfiction editor Esther Inglis-Arkell; include a cover letter explaining who you are, and list your nonfiction publication credits, your areas of expertise, and the types of articles you can and/or are interested in writing. We will get back to you if we are interested in commissioning an article from you. Nonfiction pays $75 for articles of 700-1500 words.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: submissions@fantasy-magazine.com
For submissions: submit online here
Website: http://www.fantasy-magazine.com
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