Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 30 days after submission*/Editor reported data16 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data2.30%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Best Microfiction, Best Of The Net, Best Small Fiction, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
Runs themed calls
How to submit
Processs
Moksha
Cover letter
In your cover letter, please add content warnings for sexual assualt, animal abuse, or graphic violence.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Format the work using the Shunn manuscript (but we don't need your physical address or phone #) Please only use Times New Roman or Arial font in your document. Name the file using the work title and your last name.
Author's rights
We purchase the right to publish the story online and in the quarterly edition. Rights will revert back to the artist after one year.
Additional info
Pays! Apparition is a semi-pro rate magazine, paying $0.05 per word, minimum of $50.00 dollars for short stories and a flat fee of $50 per poem. Don't accept simultaneous submissions
Tracker statistics
573
Total submissions tracked
16 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
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About
Speculative fiction is weird, almost unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. We want strange, misshapen stories with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and delicious as broth. Apparition Lit seeks original, unpublished speculative fiction and poet...
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Editor-in-Chief
Rebecca Bennett
Owner/Senior Editor and Cover Art Director
Tacoma Tomilson
Owner/Senior Editor
Clarke Doty
Owner/Senior Editor
Amy Henry Robinson
Owner/Senior Editor, Poetry Editor, and Webmaster
Maria Schrater
Poetry Editor & Assistant Fiction Editor