Pulp Literature Magazine is currently open for submission . Read the Submissions Guidelines to submit your work.
Pulp Literature Submissions
What we’re looking for
Any genre or between-genre work of literature, or visual art (black and white for interiors, colour for covers) up to 50 pages in length. Short stories, novellas, poetry, comics, illustrations — bring it on. We do not publish non-fiction, memoir, or young adult and children’s stories.
Aside from that, we want anything entertaining and well written.
If you’re an established author, we want you to submit the pieces you’ve hidden under your bed, your midnight experiments that didn’t fit into your genre, and the little things that have no other home. Go wild! Send us your genre-breaking stuff!
If you’re a new writer, send in your most thrilling, funny, or heart-rending work!
We accept simultaneous submissions. Previously printed pieces may be considered.
Literary Magazines, Journals, Anthologies
Short Fiction Guidelines
We are looking for entertaining, accessible stories. We do appreciate clever and poetic turns of phrase, but first and foremost we want a story readers can sink into late at night before they go to bed. We want to stretch people’s minds, but not give them a headache.
We want a balance of serious and lighthearted stories.
We receive so many brilliant but depressing stories that we must pass on all but the best gems. We strive for emotional balance in each of our issues, and want our readers to leave feeling challenged yet refreshed.
We aren’t satisfied with a joke. Some writers send shaggy dog stories that end with a twist or revelation that is funny, but not a story. A story is about a person, not a plot twist.
We take all genres, not just pulp. Because our title says “Pulp” Literature, some authors assume we want guns and blood. The pulp in our title refers to cheap pulp paper of dimestore novels and digests of the past. We want our magazine to include a balance of all genres, including fantasy, romance, mystery, literary, etc.
We love stories and art by and about underrepresented groups. We love to publish works featuring fiery feminism, a rainbow of LGBTQIA+, skin colours that don’t begin with the letter ‘W’, indigenous and immigrant experiences alike, and people of varying shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities.
We take more short fiction than novellas. While we try to have one longer work of 15-20,000 words in every issue, that is only one story out of a dozen.
This means we are pickier and wait longer to reply to novellas, usually requesting a re-write. Stories under 5000 words have the best chance of publication.
We’re not saying to only send us short works, but do realize what the odds and time requirements are for novellas.
We want both plot and character. We like some action along with those intriguing personalities, and we want to see characters that grow and change throughout the story arc.
We have high standards. We want stories we can treasure, words that show the love and sweat and effort of strong storytellers. These are the works we get excited about polishing so they shine to brilliance in our publication.
How To Submit To Pulp Literature Magazine
Short Fiction
Enter your details on our submissions form below.
Attach a Word .doc or .docx at the end of the form. Use any readable font in 11 or 12 point. Do not include images or elaborate formatting, and make sure your file is not write-protected. (If the file says ‘read-only’ at the top it won’t upload).*
If your story is longer than 10,000 words, submit only the first 10,000 words. We will ask for the rest if we are interested. (Bear in mind that works under 5000 words have a much higher acceptance rate).
Submit only one story per author, per three-month period.
Feel free to self-identify as as indigenous, LGBTQIA+, disabled, persons of colour, or members of other traditionally under-represented groups if you choose.
It takes us roughly six months to read submissions. If you haven’t heard from us in that time it’s likely we are unable to place your story.
Please do not email to inquire after your story unless we have already indicated we are interested in it.
*Note: occasionally the inbox fills up and the submissions form will be temporarily closed, even during an ‘open’ period. Wait a week or two and try again.
Poetry
Please send a maximum of three poems, totalling no more than five pages, to the Poetry Editors: pulpliteraturepoetry@gmail.com.
Please do not submit poetry more than twice in a calendar year, or submit again before receiving a response to a current submission.
Graphic novels and illustrations
Submit a query describing your work to info@pulpliterature.com.
Include URLs to any online work you would like us to see. If we are interested we will request files.
What we pay
We pay $0.05 – $0.08 per word for short stories (to 7000 words), $0.03 – $0.06 per word between 7000 and 10000 words, and $0.02 – $0.04 per word for works over 10000 words.
Poetry and interior illustrations pay between $25 – $50. Sequential art (graphic novels and cartoons) and illustrations are at a rate of $25 to $75 per page.
We accept a limited number of reprints at rates up to 50% of first publication rates.
Rights
We purchase exclusive first world rights, print and digital, for a period of 120 days from the publishing date, after which all rights revert to the author
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