Ongoing Submissions: The Cosmic Background

Payment: 8 cents per word, 3 cents per word for reprints Theme: Slipstream fiction We want the single best piece of flash fiction you have that comes from the places in-between. We are primarily a slipstream publication — that means we like your stories that don’t make a ton of sense. We want your giant talking frogs. We want your people with unexplained, never commented-upon eyes in their fingertips. We enjoy character-focused writing, with an emphasis on voice. We love Kelly Link, George Saunders, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Sarah Pinsker, Shingai Njeri-Kagunda, Christopher Rowe, and Kate Folk.  Flash Fiction We define Flash Fiction as anything under 1000 words. That’s what we want. For every word over 1000 you reduce your chances of acceptance.  However that doesn’t mean we absolutely definitely won’t accept longer stories. If you send us 1500 literally perfect words, we will buy them from you. We might suggest you send them to a different magazine first, but we’re not turning down the next Kurt Vonnegut because your story’s too long.  We pay $0.08 a word. We’d love to pay more than that, but for now, that’s where we’re at.    Reprints We take reprints, but at $0.03 a word instead of the $0.08 a word we pay for original fiction. They’re also going to be a harder sell than original work. Please let us know if you’re sending us a reprint.    Guest Editors Over the space of our first 9-months, we will have 3 guest editors. L.P. Kindred has gracefully agreed to be our first guest-editor, in the month of June. The absurdly talented Chelsea Sutton will be taking over for the month of October. Our final guest-editor will be chosen from applications from the community. (Have you ever wanted to guest-edit a magazine? Would you like your...
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