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PLEASE NOTE: 69 Flavors of Paranoia is currently an UNPAID market. We thrive on previously published work - Stories, Poems and Artwork.
If you want to get paid, support us and our network by sharing our sites with your networks - spreading the disease is the first step in making 69FoP more than a hobby!

Submission Guidelines: Fiction, Poetry and Artwork

Poetry and Artwork Guidelines are variations of this Amuse Bouche.

MAIN INGREDIENTS

Genres Accepted

Horror, Urban-Fantasy, Slipstream, Speculative in the form of Fiction and Artwork

HERBS & SPICES

Monsters, Science Fiction, Alternate History, Apocalyptic, Humor, Gothic, Suspense/Crime, Mystery, Pulp, Noir, Action/Adventure, Western, Romance, Experimental, Creative Nonfiction, Plot Driven, Character Driven

MEASUREMENTS

Word Count

Prefers 2,500 words and below, but will consider up to 3,500. Loves flash fiction (under 1,000 words). It's difficult to read 3,500+ words on a monitor...and we get bored easily. If you think you're good enough to stir my stew, then you better make it lean and mean and keep us from the get go.

INSTRUCTIONS

Our best advice is to take a heaping scoop of the main course, sprinkle in a couple of the herbs & spices for extra flavor, mix well, and top with a steaming pile of your favorite title. 69FoP's tastebuds tend toward horror and dark fantasy. While horror is our favorite dish, we most love to serve it in a slipstream/cross genre stew. We love monsters and unknown beings of all types (just remember, though, there's a billion of 'em out there, so yours had better be tasty) and the contemporary/urban fantasy found in The Twilight Zone. LotR/Harry Potter-style fantasy, hard sci-fi and poetry are not particularly palatable to us, and we've been known to spit those pieces out before we finish chewing. Nothing particularly wrong with them, mind you, just not the textures we savor.

69FoP gives first consideration to short stories originally served up in small press 'zines prior to the turn of the century, though we will take a bite of anything published in any periodical through 2004. We will also accept original fiction, but if it's good enough to submit to 69FoP, it should be good enough to put out to the paying markets first. That said, if you really want your recipe associated with such a groovy title, and it has the right ingredients, toss it in our oven and see if it bakes...

You can step into editor Rycke Foreman's den at www.rycke.com and snack on a few of his treats. Swish the taste around a bit, get an idea of the flavor we're looking to brew, then serve it up on a silver platter. Our belated and beloved Miss Constant has a word or two as well for you ... go here to read what she had to share before her passing.

CHEMICALS AND PRESERVATIVES

Rights Purchased

69 Flavors of Paranoia "purchases" [not really - we are a non-paying market - remember] Non-Exclusive Reprint Rights, First World Electronic Rights, Archival Rights and the Option for Anthology Printing Rights.

If for ANY reason you wish to pull your submission from the mixing bowl, even after your work is ACCEPTED - you MUST submit your request VIA EMAIL and send that request to the Editorial e-mail in order to avoid any mistakes, complications or misunderstandings.

If your publication contract is not signed by the deadline, your story will be pushed to the next issue. If you can not be reached by email, you submission will not be published.

I don't like those. Misunderstandings are messy, and you won't like me when things get messy ... Find the Editorial E-mail address here.

PACKAGING

Submission Formating: Fiction/Poetry/Artwork
Submissions Forms

E-mail submissions with the subject line: SUBMISSION: "Your Story Title"/Your Name

You can use our Browse and Upload Submissions by using the appropriate links below.

FICTION and POETRY: Prefers Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf), or paste into the body of an e-mail.

Please use proper manuscript format, with the single exception of the italics/underline issue. If you want to make life easier for your editor--and who doesn't want to do that?--we would prefer submissions come italicized, though underlined is okay.

ARTWORK: .JPG, .PNG and .TIFF all acceptable. If you wish print publication (if available for your issue) please send us an image with no less than 300dpi.

No simultaneous submissions:

If you send your dish to me, I get dibs... respectfully, you can't share my plate untli I pass it up... or gobble it up.

No multiple submissions:

I want to focus on one story per author/artist! Please don't bombard me... I can only have my fingers in so many pies. ARTISITS: Do not send me to your site to pick out artwork. You must make one formal submission! PERIOD!

Upload Your Submission Here
Please also be prepared to upload your headshot/icon and biography. It saves us ALL tons of time later.

PRESENTATION

Publication Schedule

Each issue of 69FoP is presented in the form of a Menu. Each submission will then be placed in the appropriate course for presentation. Having the honor of being served with the Desserts, now THAT is something sweet you'll want to share.

69 Flavors of Paranoia is an online magazine published/updated 6 times a year with new content. Each issue is archived for future access upon publication of a new edition. With the many projects we have going (See Rycke.com, Slash: It's a Real Scream, Myss Miranda Designs and CurtWalters.com - just to name a few) things may get backed up. Just think of it as heartburn and we need to medicate before preparing the next meal.

In case of a publication delay, notications will be made on the website, Facebook Fan Pages and on Twitter.