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Fantasy means many things to different people. Often it means a shifting of perspective, which seems to imply that there is more, that wherever you are, the world or universe is bigger yet. Whoever you are and wherever you are, that location which seems mundane to you is also Fantastic to others. Fantasy is philosophical as well as experiential, it is thought provoking, and often insists on a sense of wonder and curiosity.

In genre as well as our pages, Fantasy can be dark, or contemporary, it can be urban, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales… as well as anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the Fantastic that make us think, and that describe what it is to be human.

We welcome a range of original “speculative works” that can be described as “Fantasy.” All types of Fantasy and dark Fantasy are welcome. These can include horror with a speculative or supernatural flair, as well as the kinds of works which feature or contain similar elements but are harder to describe—precise genre labels are less important to us than what the story does for us as readers. All types of Fantastic works are welcome—dark and moody, bright and hopeful; slipstream or weird or surreal; grounded in science as well as the Fantastic or playing with traditions; and much more. We encourage writers to take chances with their creative endeavors. If you’re not sure whether your work exactly fits what we do, including defining it in comparison to horror or science fiction, go ahead and submit and let the editors decide. That said, this is not a market for works with absolutely no speculative, Fantastic, or similar elements; this is not a market for slasher/horror without that supernatural/paranormal/Fantastic flair; this is not a market for hard science fiction, or science fiction without some kind of Fantasy leaning.