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Sunny Jackson

Submission Guidelines : Escape Pod - 0 views

  • Escape Pod is
  • a science fiction magazine
  • we want that which evokes a sense of wonder, or fun, or simply makes us think about our own world in a new way.
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  • send fantasy stories to our other sister podcast, PodCastle
  • Please do not send simultaneous submissions of a single story to multiple Escape Artists podcasts (Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Pseudopod). When submitting to one Escape Artists podcast, please wait to hear back about it before submitting the same story to another.
  • We want short stories between about 2,000 and 6,000 words. The sweet spot’s somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000 words
  • We will buy longer, but you really have to WOW us.
  • We are closed to flash fiction as of 01/10/11.
  • We’re an audio market
  • We do not discriminate between previously published and unpublished works.
  • it doesn’t hurt us if a story has previously appeared in another market
  • we buy nonexclusive rights
  • we encourage new authors to send their work to other markets first, and then send it to us for audio rights after the story has appeared.
  • You’re welcome to give us first dibs on anything you like, but consider: if your story’s good enough for us to buy it, it’s probably good enough to sell to another market first. Why not try that, and get two audiences and two checks?
  • We’re looking for fiction with strong pacing, well-defined characters, engaging dialogue, and clear action.
  • above all we’re looking for fun.
  • Humor is highly encouraged.
  • Upbeat, optimistic stories are encouraged.
  • You can get away with breaking almost any of these rules if the story is fun enough. What’s fun? We know it when we see it.
  • We accept stories in e-mail, in plain text format, at the address submit@escapepod.org.
  • we prefer plain text.
  • Send it from the e-mail address at which you want us to correspond with you
  • On the Subject: line of the message, be sure to include the title of the story.
  • we use the e-mail subject to identify the story
  • In the body of the message, what we want is as follows: 1. Your name. (Your real name. The story can have a different byline, and we’ll credit that byline in public, but we need to know who’s legally offering us this story and to whom the check should be written.) 2. Your mailing address. (We need this for contract purposes; it will be kept confidential.) 3. A cover statement briefly giving us your publication credits, and in particular telling us whether this story has been published before or adapted into audio. If there’s anything we need to know about available rights, tell us that too. This section is optional, but it’s helpful for us to have this information if we buy your story and want to know more about you for bio purposes. (Note: When we say “briefly,” we mean your top five or six publications. We have literally had people send us resumés that were longer than the story submitted. This only makes us sigh.) 4. The word count of the story, according to your word processing software. 5. The title of the story. 6. The story’s byline. (Optional if it’s the same as your legal name.) 7. The text of the story. Use single spacing, with blank lines between paragraphs and _underscores_ for emphasis.
  • one story at a time!
  • Once you’ve sent us your story, we will review it and respond to you via e-mail.
  • If we decide we’d like it for our podcast, we’ll send you a contract as a PDF file in e-mail. You will sign it and send it back to us via e-mail (after scanning it), fax, or postal mail. Then we’ll pay you via check or PayPal and start producing.
  • we may contact you with questions about the story, its background, or pronunciations
  • cover letter
  • brief bio
  • Web site
  • we usually can’t give you an accurate timetable of when your story will appear in the podcast.
  • If the text of the work is currently available online for free, that’s great! Let us know in your cover letter so we can link to it in the web post if we publish your story.
  • The files Escape Pod produces are released under a Creative Commons license. Specifically, we use the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Briefly, this means that the entire world has permission to distribute the podcast for free, provided they give credit for it, don’t try to make money off of it, and don’t change it in any way.
  • you retain your copyright and all rights
Sunny Jackson

British Fantasy Award Shortlist! - PodCastle - 0 views

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    British Fantasy Award Shortlist! The dragon is getting stuffed on celebratory cake this week! The British Fantasy Society shortlist has been announced and PodCastle and PseudoPod have both been nominated under the Best Audio category! Also, Alasda… The dragon is getting stuffed on celebratory cake this week! The British Fantasy Society shortlist has been announced and PodCastle and PseudoPod have both been nominated under the Best Audio category! via Pocket British Fantasy Award Shortlist! - PodCastle via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LF9GjY
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PodCastle has won, and is declining, the Parsec Award - PodCastle - 0 views

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    PodCastle has won, and is declining, the Parsec Award PodCastle has had an extraordinary year. We've published some amazing stories. We ran our fourth Artemis Rising. We were nominated for a World Fantasy Award. And just this week, we learned that … PodCastle has won, and is declining, the Parsec Award - PodCastle via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2BA5FWa PodCastle has had an extraordinary year. We've published some amazing stories. We ran our fourth Artemis Rising. We were nominated for a World Fantasy Award. via Pocket
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For Sale: Fantasy Coffins (Ababuo Need Not Apply) | Apex Magazine - 0 views

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    The sign outside Hello Design Coffin Works read, FOR SALE: FANTASY COFFINS. But the little girl imagined more ominous words floating just below the other letters, "Ababuo Need Not Apply." via Pocket For Sale Fantasy Coffins (Ababuo Need Not Apply) | Apex Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2NXJ5uV
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A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies | Apex Magazine - 0 views

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    You'd think it would make us happy when a kid checks out the same book a zillion times in a row, but actually it just keeps us up at night. The Runaway Prince is one of those low-budget young adult fantasies from the mid-nineties, before J.K. via Po… A Witch's Guide to Escape A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies | Apex Magazine via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2C1ax4Y
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Avon Fantasy Reader/Issue 11/Uncommon Castaway - Wikisource, the free online library - 0 views

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    Nelson Bond, who made his start in the regular pulp magazines, rapidly graduated from that class to star his fine fantasies in the pages of the better popular magazines. via Pocket Avon Fantasy ReaderIssue 11Uncommon Castaway - Wikisource, the free online library via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2ONYSNL
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"Red Rabbit" by Steve Rasnic Tem | Weird Fiction Review - 0 views

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    The following story appears in Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem, out this week from Valancourt Books. Steve Rasnic Tem's writings have garnered numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Bram Stoker Award. via Po… untitled via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2qPt7d0
Sunny Jackson

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Privilege of the Happy Ending b... - 0 views

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    This is a story that ends as all stories do, eventually, in deaths. When Ada's parents died in the winter of her sixth year, she was sent to the neighboring parish to live with her aunt, Margery. via Pocket Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy The Privilege of the Happy Ending by Kij Johnson via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2M8NoDs
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For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2019 - PodCastle - 0 views

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    For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2019 In 2019, PodCastle produced 15 original stories and 33 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season. … In 2019, PodCastle produced 14 original stories and 34 reprints. For your consideration, we present the Escape Artists stories which are eligible for nomination in the upcoming award season. PodCastle itself is eligible for the Best Semiprozine Hugo…
Sunny Jackson

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Falls: A Luna Story by Ian McDo... - 0 views

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    My daughter fell from the top of the world. She tripped, she gripped, she slipped, and she fell. Into three kilometers of open air. I have a desk. Everyone on the atmospheric entry project thinks it's the quaintest thing. They can't understand it. v… Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy The Falls A Luna Story by Ian McDonald via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2zKWgeZ
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : Kingfisher by Robert Reed - 0 views

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    And then there was quite a long time with nothing to chase. No suggestive tracks in the ice, no hopeful stories told by misinformed strangers. The air didn't hold any name glancingly resembling her name, and there weren't even rumors about intriguin… Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Kingfisher by Robert Reed via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2n1vuYD
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Avon Fantasy Reader/Issue 11/Asleep in Armageddon - Wikisource, the free online library - 0 views

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    Even when dealing with the perilously stereotyped modern interplanetary story, the devilish pen of Ray Bradbury achieves that originality of concept, that special spark of subtle pin-pricking that has made him outstanding. via Pocket Avon Fantasy ReaderIssue 11Asleep in Armageddon - Wikisource, the free online library via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2nPQa6k
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Flash Fiction Contest V Opens Today! - PodCastle - 0 views

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    Flash Fiction Contest V Opens Today! The Escape Artists Flash Fiction Contest opens today! The contest will be taking submissions from today, April 15, 2019, and ending on April 30, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Remember, each author may submit one ori… The Escape Artists Flash Fiction Contest opens today! The contest will be taking submissions from today, April 15, 2019, and ending on April 30, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Remember, each author may submit one original fantasy story of 500 words or les…
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For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2018 - PodCastle - 0 views

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    For Your Consideration: PodCastle Award Eligibility 2018 It's that time again: awards season has begun! If you're looking for some awesome fantasy fiction to nominate, here's a convenient list of PodCastle's original, award-eligible short stories f… Posted by via Pocket
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PodCastle - The world's first audio fantasy magazine. - 0 views

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  • My Dignity in Scars
  • by Cory Skerry
  • Originally published in Strange Horizons. Read it here!
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  • Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot
  • by Claire Humphrey
  • Originally published in Strange Horizons. Read the story here!
  • The Three Feats of Agani
  • by Christie Yant
  • Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Read it here!
  • Where Virtue Lives
  • Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Read it here!
  • Ironskin, by Tina Connolly
  • On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)
  • Originally published in Lightspeed Magazine. Read the story here!
  • The Very Strange Weird of Endart Sscowth
  • by Scott H. Andrews
  • Tiger in the BSE
  • by E. Lily Yu
  • A Memory of Wind
  • by Rachel Swirsky
  • Originally Published at Tor.com. Read it here!
  • Everything You Were Looking For
  • by Samantha Henderson
  • Originally Published in Bourbon Penn. Read it here.
Sunny Jackson

Lightspeed Magazine | Fiction - 0 views

  • Looking for more fantasy stories? Visit the Fantasy Magazine archive site.
  • Child-Empress of Mars by Theodora Goss
  • Purity Test by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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  • Lifeline by Jonathan Olfert
  • The Sounds of Old Earth by Matthew Kressel
  • Addison Howell and the Clockroach by Cherie Priest
  • With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came by A.C. Wise
  • Daltharee by Jeffrey Ford
  • The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics by Daniel Abraham
  • Lázaro y Antonio by Marta Randall
  • Family Teeth (Part 6): St. Polycarp’s Home For Happy Wanderers by Sarah Langan
Sunny Jackson

GigaNotoSaurus - 0 views

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    GigaNotoSaurus (the webzine, edited by Ann Leckie) publishes one longish fantasy or science fiction story monthly. Longish meaning longer than a short story, and shorter than a novel.
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