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Orion’s Child Magazine

March 22, 2010

Publishing since 2007, each issue of Orion’s Child Magazine centers on a theme.

n Pay: Nonpaying market

n Word count (maximum): None given

n Seeks: Each issue is themed

n E-mail to: EditorOrionsChild@galadarn.com


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(c) 2010 Rob Bignell

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Marginal Boundaries

March 15, 2010

Marginal Boundaries is a new quarterly online publication that doesn’t believe short stories need to be “short” to be good.

n Pay: $10 per story

n Word count (minimum): 5,000 words (on up to about 30,000 words)

n Seeks: Speculative fiction that is “is character-driven or is a breathtakingly and painstakingly created world that reverberates with unknown adventure.”

n Doesn’t want: Flash fiction; gratuitous violence, sex, or language

n Reading periods: Accepts submissions only during the months of January, April, July and October

n E-mail to: Send as .rtf


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(c) 2010 Rob Bignell

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Kasma Science Fiction Magazine

March 8, 2010

A new online publication, the first issue of Kasma came out at the end of 2009.

n Pay: Averages about $10 for fiction over 1000 words and $5 for flash fiction (under 1000)

n Word count (maximum): 5000 words

n E-mail to: Paste story in the body of the e-mail


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(c) 2010 Rob Bignell

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Not One of Us

March 1, 2010

In print since 1986, Not One of Us prints character-oriented stories from a variety of genres, not just science fiction.

n Pay: ¼¢ per word ($5 minimum)

n Word count (maximum): 7500 words (prefers 6000 words)

n Seeks: According to the zine’s Website: “Not One of Us is a hardcopy zine about people (or things) out of place in their surroundings, outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the sf sense — anyone excluded from society for whatever the reason. We want to explore ‘otherness’ from every possible angle.”

n Doesn’t want:Stories about vampires, alcoholic villains without any understanding of their motives, tales about writers, sword and sorcery, deals with the devil, and revenge stories that have no other point, especially if the punishment far exceeds the crime.

n Mail to: John Benson, Editor, 12 Curtis Road, Natick, MA 01760

n E-mail to: john@not-one-of-us.com


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(c) 2010 Rob Bignell

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