WORD COUNT GUIDELINES

• Manuscripts: 20,000 – 70,000 words.
• Short pieces for ISFN anthologies: up to 10,000 words.

PLEASE

• Read and follow these guidelines.
• Read and follow these guidelines.
• Do not includea cover letter or any biographical information with your submission.
• Do include: your e-mail address, name and word-count at the top of every document.
• If your work has been previously published, include relevant information in your file (name of publisher, issue, date).
• We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if you wish to withdraw your submission.
• We will accept unsolicited manuscripts for as long as we can handle the load.
• And most important of all: NO STRANGE FORMATTING. If you can’t work a word processor and follow simple guidelines (below)… we’ll assume it’s a safe bet you can’t write a decent story.

HOW TO SUBMIT

• Use our automated submission manager. (If you do not receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, please let us know — this could mean an error we need to fix.)
• Acceptable text formats: .rtf .txt .doc
• Format: 12 pt font, double-spaced, 1.0″ margin, 0.5″ tab at the start of each new paragraph.
• Our submission manager will automatically reject all other file formats!

FICTION AND POETRY GUIDELINES

• We accept all genres and all subject matter.
• We look for writing that is driven by strong characters, strong writing and strong ideas.
• Poetry Manuscripts: We are highly interested in book-length narrative poems. We are not interested in poetry collections.

NONFICTION GUIDELINES

• We are interested in essays and collections of aphorisms.
• Subject matter: philosophy and epistemology, philosophy of science, politics, general observations; weird and interesting stuff.