Note: do not submit more than 5 stories in a 30 day period.
The Colored Lens was created to showcase stories that shift our perspective on the world, through the far-reaching genre of speculative fiction. However, the fundamentals of good storytelling always come first: stories with characters we enjoy reading about and a solid plot. As long as your story includes them, we’d love to read it.
We publish all varieties of speculative fiction, from alternate history, to high fantasy, to nuts and bolts hard science fiction, to dark fantasy, so long as it meets the guidelines above. Whatever the genre, the focus should be used to comment on our world and society rather than exclusively to keep the reader turning pages.
This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. The more data we have the more accurate our
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.
Accuracy:
There are 332 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 0 | Average: 6.72 | Median: 1 | Max: 138
Responded:
99.39%
Accepted:
3.61% - avg 61 days
Rejected:
95.18% - avg 4 days(94.93% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
0.60%
Dead Letters:
0.30%
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
0.30%
Withdrawn:
0.30%
Pending:
12 pending responses (0 min | 26 average | 26 median | 62 max days waiting) Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data. We recommend querying after the time the market suggests to query.