Feed Our Beast!
Submission Guidelines: Stories
Poetry and Artwork Guidelines are variations of this Amuse Bouche.
*For a more spcific taste of the visuals up Miss M's alley of artwork, visit her links @ the bottom of Myss C's blurb or view the artwork in Menus.
MAIN INGREDIENTS
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
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...
Until we fill our tables with your first banquet, 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 wants to share.
CHEMICALS AND PRESERVATIVES
69 Flavors of Paranoia "purchases" 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 ALL three Editorial e-mails in order to avoid any mistakes, complications or misunderstandings.
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
E-mail submissions by using the link below. In the subject line, please put: 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 artist! Please don't bombard me... I can only have my fingers in so many pies.
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Upload Your Submission Here
ALL submission types should be submitted here!!!! -
As a backup - Submit from our Facebook page!
Please also be prepared to upload your headshot/icon and biography. It saves us ALL tons of time later.
PRESENTATION
69 Flavors of Paranoia is an online magazine published/updated 6 times a year with new content. Each issue will then be archived for future access. We are just starting out - again - and 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.
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