{"id":3132,"date":"2017-10-12T05:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2017-10-12T05:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T05:27:55","slug":"a-fall-of-fiction-submission-roundup-for-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/a-fall-of-fiction-submission-roundup-for-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fall of Fiction: Submission Roundup for October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup! There are some very cool writing opportunities in the coming weeks, so if you&#8217;ve got a story seeking a home, then hopefully, you&#8217;ll find a place in the list below to send it!<\/p>\n<p>But first a quick note: As always, I&#8217;m not a representative for any of these publications; I&#8217;m just spreading the word! So if you have any questions, please direct them to the respective publications. (Seriously, it seems silly that I always include this disclaimer, but I forgot once and ended up receiving messages demanding answers about the specifics of the submission calls, so yeah. Disclaimer now obligatory.)<\/p>\n<p>And onward now to this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1.jpg\" alt=\"Submission Roundup\" width=\"448\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Electric Spec<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: $20\/flat<br \/>\nLength: 250 to 7,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: Rolling deadline, but submissions for the next issue close on October 15th, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to speculative short fiction.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricspec.com\/Submissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Riddled with Arrows<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .03\/word (minimum $5; maximum $25)<br \/>\nLength: up to 1,500 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 21st, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to horror-themed metafiction, poetry, and art. This month&#8217;s theme relates to Halloween.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riddledwitharrows.com\/guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: Poetry $50; Short fiction $150; Novelettes $300<br \/>\nLength: 2,000-7,000 for short fiction; up to 15,000 words for novelettes<br \/>\nDeadline: October 31st, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Easily the best new publication of 2017, Fiyah is producing some of the top speculative fiction you&#8217;ll find in today&#8217;s market (Case in point: the always awesome Eden Royce&#8217;s fantastic story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiyahlitmag.com\/product\/issue-two-spilling-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issue 2<\/a>). For writers looking to submit here, the editors are seeking stories from authors from the African diaspora and the African continent. This issue&#8217;s theme is Ahistorical Blackness.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiyahlitmag.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NonBinary Review<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .01\/word fiction and nonfiction; $10\/flat poetry; $25\/flat visual art<br \/>\nLength: up to 5,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 31st, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to speculative fiction submissions based on the theme of&#8230; wait for it&#8230; <em>We Have Always Lived in the Castle<\/em> (i.e. the all-time favorite book of this particular blogger right here). It doesn&#8217;t appear that I&#8217;ll have time to submit something, so please send in a submission of your own, will you? Do Merricat and me proud!<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/nonbinaryreview.com\/submission-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy submitting!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup! There are some very cool writing opportunities in the coming weeks, so if you&#8217;ve got a story seeking a home, then hopefully, you&#8217;ll find a place in the list below to send it! But first a quick note: As always, I&#8217;m not a representative for any of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-submission-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}