Submit to Clarkesworld Magazine
Filipino and/or Philippines-based spec fic writers should feel free to submit their stories in electronic format to international publications. The Internet is a wonderful tool – and I kind of wish local publications would use it more.
I posted about Strange Horizons a few months earlier… now here’s another US-based magazine to add to the list.
Clarkesworld Magazine is an online venue and chapbook series for short works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Each month, Clarkesworld will publish two pieces of fiction, one solicited from an author with one or more books published, and one chosen from the rolling open call for submissions below.
CFS: Call For Submissions, Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine pays 10¢ a word for works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We have a firm word limit of 4000 words. Please do not query about word lengths. We will not consider stories longer than 4000 words. We claim first world electronic rights, first print rights for the production of signed/numbered limited edition chapbooks (author must be willing to sign 100+ chapbooks), and non-exclusive anthology rights.
Stories must be:
- Well-written. Language is important. If your story is only a story because you didn’t have the funds to produce and direct a short film or a sufficiently large live audience for the telling of a fanciful anecdote, then I don’t want to see it. There is no distinction between “style” and “substance” or “story” and “writing” — stories are made out of words. If your story isn’t worth reading as a collection of words, sentences, and paragraphs, it isn’t worth experiencing in story form.
- Convenient for on-screen reading. Very long paragraphs or typographical trickery may work against you.
Science fiction need not be “hard” SF, but rigor is appreciated. Fantasy can be folkloric, medieval, contemporary, surreal, etc. Horror can be supernatural or psychological, so long as it is frightening. There are no barriers as to levels of profanity, gore, or sexuality allowed, but high amounts of profanity, gore, and sexuality are generally used poorly. Be sure to use them well if you do use them.
For more information, see the submission guidelines at the Clarkesworld Magazine official website.
A very talented friend is looking forward to having one of her stories printed there very soon! I’m just not sure I’m authorized to say who it is, as she is rather shy :P Not to worry, all will be revealed come the time.
She does, however, encourage other Filipino spec fic writers to submit!