Skin
Description
Note: one submission per author.
Note: profits from first year of publication will go to an undisclosed skin cancer charity.
We’re looking for stories (2-5k words) on the theme of skin (after all, we are skeletons, we crave what we lack).
Take the prompt as literally or as abstractly as you like.
We tend to prefer speculative, surreal, supernatural, dark fiction with creeping, poetic, dread-inducing prose, and endings we can't predict, but we're open to all subgenres of dark fiction.
Elements of sci-fi and/or fantasy are fine, as long as your story veers towards the dark. We are not, however, the market for violent, bloody, racist, homophobic, or masochistic fiction.
Note: profits from first year of publication will go to an undisclosed skin cancer charity.
We’re looking for stories (2-5k words) on the theme of skin (after all, we are skeletons, we crave what we lack).
Take the prompt as literally or as abstractly as you like.
We tend to prefer speculative, surreal, supernatural, dark fiction with creeping, poetic, dread-inducing prose, and endings we can't predict, but we're open to all subgenres of dark fiction.
Elements of sci-fi and/or fantasy are fine, as long as your story veers towards the dark. We are not, however, the market for violent, bloody, racist, homophobic, or masochistic fiction.
This listing is permanently closed for submissions. This may mean one of several things:
- It was always planned to be a limited-time project, such as a one-time anthology, and the limited-time submission window has ended.
- The publisher has stated that they are permanently closed, or on hiatus with wording that makes it sound permanent.
- The publication website is down in a way that appears to be permanent, and we haven't been able to find a new website for them.
- The publication website is not down, but it appears to have been inactive for more than a year.
Read the contract terms carefully for non-standard terms that may affect an author keeping control of their own work, such as transfer of copyright, lack of time-based reversion of rights clause, or editing pieces without the authors approval.
Submitting to this market is tied to subscription to a promotional newsletter: either they will subscribe you to the newsletter when you submit, or you must be a subscriber to submit.
Market Genres
Genres
FantasyScience Fiction
Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Short Story
2000 to 5000 words
Less than 1 cent/word
Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Not Allowed
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Market-Provided Data
This section can be updated by a representative of the publication. To add a representative, the publication should contact us to request it (no cost).
Market Response Data (User-Reported)
View recent responses from this market
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.
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.
Count:
There are 12 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 1 | Average: 24.50 | Median: 14 | Max: 97
Responded:
100.00%
Accepted:
16.66% - avg 1 days
Rejected:
75.00% - avg 32 days
(44.44% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
8.33%
Dead Letters:
-
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
-
Withdrawn:
-
Pending:
There are 0 pending responses.
Click and drag within chart (make a box, not a line) to zoom in. Double click chart to zoom back out.
Registered users can customize graph colors in profile settings.
Listing added: 2 April 2024
Last officially checked: 2 April 2024