Call for Submissions: Fusion Fragment

Fusion Fragment 

Submission Status: Open through July 31st.

What We Want:

• Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words. Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction.

• We don’t accept reprints.

• Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories.

• We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter.

• We used the results of our submitter’s survey to post some details on the types of stories that usually work best for us. You can find the info on our Patreon here.

What We Pay

• We pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $400 (CAD) per story.

• Our preferred method of payment is PayPal. If you live in a region where PayPal is not available, we’ll do our best to work with you to find an alternate method of payment.

How To Submit

• Send your stories in RTF, DOC, DOCX or ODT file formats. Standard manuscript formatting is nice but not necessary. No one’s going to get accepted or rejected based on manuscript formatting, so don’t stress about it.

• If you’d like to include a cover letter, feel free to do so. If you’d rather leave it blank, that’s fine, too. (Note that the submission system requires you to enter something in the cover letter field–if you don’t want to include one, just write “Blank” or something like that.)

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please be sure to withdraw your submission from us if accepted elsewhere.

• You may submit one original story at a time. If a story is rejected, you can feel free to send another story right away.

• You will receive an automated email confirming receipt of your submission that will include a link where you can check your position in the queue. If you do not receive this email, you should query via our contact form to make sure that your story has been received. (In some cases, you may need to whitelist moksha.io in your email settings.)

• Send your stories to us through the Moksha submission system, which you can access by clicking here.