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Literary Magazine

Cast of Wonders

www.castofwonders.org

Fiction

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Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction, founded in 2011.

Highlights

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:
    56 days after submission*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    142 days*
    Chill Subs tracker stats
  • Acceptance rate:
    ?*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    7.72%*
    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

    From the editors

    Anthologies, Blogs, Defunct Mags, Only Appeared In Print, Other Lit Mags, Personal Websites, Social Media

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

  • 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

    There’s also a field for you to enter any of the items we’ve asked you to note in these submission guidelines, confusingly labelled ‘Cover Letter’. Please do not supply a full covering letter or summary of the story, either on the submission form or the manuscript. The information we’re after includes: reprint information (if applicable), if the author is a Young Author or previously unpublished, if the author is part of an under-represented demographic, if the story is #ownvoices, or if it skirts our content guidelines in any way/touches on sensitive topics. For this last point, this allows us to assign appropriate readers. We’d also ask that you don’t include any identifying personal information here.

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    The manuscript should be saved and uploaded in any standard word processing file type, such as Word, Google Docs or .RTF. We do not accept PDFs.

  • Author's rights

    EA’s episodes are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. The entire world has permission to download and distribute the audio files for free, provided they properly credit them, don’t offer them for sale, and don’t make any changes. Transcribing it, extracting portions from it that exceed Fair Use, and mashing it up are all prohibited. Check our Legal page for more details.

  • Additional info

    We are particularly interested in considering stories from younger writers. We’re Looking For Stories that evoke a sense of wonder, have deep emotional resonance, and have something unreal about them. We aim for a 12-17 age range: that means sophisticated, non-condescending stories with wide appeal, and without gratuitous or explicit sex, violence or pervasive obscene language. Think Harry Potter or The Hunger Games. We don’t accept media-based fiction or any kind of fan fiction. We run both reprints and original stories, and have no strong preference between the two. We do not accept multiple submissions from an author at the same time. You may only send us a single story at a time, regardless of length.

Tracker statistics

252

Total submissions tracked

142 days

Average response time

7.72%

Average acceptance rate

3 days

Fastest response time

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The Submissions Grinder Statistics

6.75%

12-month average acceptance rate

65 days

12-month average response time

About

Every week we present short stories from some of today’s best genre fiction writers, featuring everything from hard science fiction, to urban fantasy, horror, steampunk, superheroes and more. Our stories are defined by their deep emotional resonance and that critical spark of wonder. We pay our aut...

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    Editor Katherine Inskip avatar

    Katherine Inskip

    Editor-in-Chief