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In 2009 Neo-opsis Science
Fiction Magazine will be open for submissions from March 1 to August 31.
If you are looking for
more publications to submit to, here are some sites that run publisher
listings:
www.ralan.com,
www.quintamid.com/q/mdb/list,
www.rimbaud.org.uk, www.laurahird.com/litmagcentral.html,
www.duotrope.com.
Art Guidelines:
We are interested in professional-level, mostly realistic
work that has not been previously
published or linked to a product. Full colour work for covers, and
black & white for interiors. Our intention is for the black and
white works to be illustrations for the stories. A website link to the artist’s
work will give us a chance to consider the work. Images may also be emailed to neoopsis@shaw.ca. If the artist is
approved they will be sent a story to illustrate. There is also the chance
that if an illustration is interesting to us, and hasn't been
previously published, that we may publish it as a stand-alone piece
between stories. Please make a note with your submission if the artwork is
unpublished or give a brief publishing history per piece. If you are only
interested in doing covers, and not illustrations, please mention that with
your submission(s).
Payment: (upon publication)
If
we accept a black & white illustration, the artist will receive
one copy of the issue that their work appears in and $30 dollars
Canadian. If we accept a full colour piece for the
cover of Neo-opsis, the artist will receive two copies of that issue
and $100 dollars Canadian.
Mailing
Address:
Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine
4129
Carey Road
Victoria,
BC, Canada V8Z 4G5
Email: neoopsis@shaw.ca
Written
Submission Guidelines:
Accepting new submissions for consideration from March
1, 2009 – August 31, 2009 (The
next acceptance period is from May 1, 2010 – September 30, 2010)
Story:
Neo-opsis will consider material submitted by any writer, professional or
amateur. It is our intention to not set down a lot of ground rules for these
stories. We don’t want to miss something that we would really like just because
it doesn’t fit our rules, but we are more likely to publish stories that are
less than 6000 words and fit a science fiction or fantasy theme.
Poem:
The kind of poem that is more likely to be accepted, for
publication in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, is the kind of poem that
will appeal to a wide range of people.
Format:
If emailed, we prefer only one submission per email,
attached to the email as a MS Word .doc file, or .rtf file, but we will not
refuse a story that is included within the body of an email. An easy to read
format is best, font size 12 or 14, and double-spaced. Submissions should be
sent to neoopsis@shaw.ca. (If you have a SPAM
filter, be sure that our response can make it back to you.) The subject
line of your email should include the word Submission, the title
of your submission, and if possible the approximate word count. Be sure to
include your email address in your contact information at the top of your
manuscript. (Your contact information will be kept in the strictest confidence
and not sold or spammed.) All emailed submissions will receive an auto reply
email usually within two weeks of it being sent. The first stage of
consideration may take up to eight weeks. No simultaneous submissions please,
and no previously published works.
If mailed, manuscripts must be in an easy to read format; font
size 12 or 14, single sided, double-spaced. The Author’s name and address as
well as a page count should be on the first page of the
manuscript. All pages should be numbered. If you wish your manuscript(s)
returned or acknowledged by mail, please include a self-addressed envelope,
stamped, if in Canada, or include an international reply coupon if the address
is outside of Canada. If you do not need your submission(s) returned, please
consider including an email address for our response to your submission(s).
Submissions that do not include a return email address, or a self addressed
envelope with Canadian stamps or an international reply coupon, will be
disposed of without reply. No simultaneous submissions please and no previously
published works.
(A simultaneous submission is a submission that is
sent to several publishers at the same time. Most magazine publishers accept
single submissions only, meaning each story/submission is sent to a single
publisher. The story/submission is not sent to the next publisher until the
first has rejected it. Publishers, especially small press, have very limited
budgets, and often can not afford the expense of time and money to consider and
prepare to publish a submission that then turns out to have already been
accepted by another publisher only the day or week before.)
Payment: (upon publication)
First North American serial rights for accepted
stories and poems are purchased at 2.5 cents (Canadian) per word, to
a maximum of $125.00. Contributors will also receive one copy of the issue
their contribution appears in if their submission is 2,000 words or less, or
two copies of the issue if their submission is over 2,000 words.
Mailing
Address:
Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine
4129
Carey Road
Victoria,
BC, Canada V8Z 4G5
These Guidelines were updated on July 6, 2009. If you have
any questions email us at neoopsis@shaw.ca.
This
is not the official site of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine. Our formal site
is at www.neo-opsis.ca
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