All submissions must be 1,000 words or less. There is no minimum word count, but our upper limit is set in stone.

All submissions should be sent either in the body of your email or as a .doc/.rtf document to this email address: fantasy(at)wingedhalo(dot)com. Do NOT send .docx documents - we cannot open them. Submissions sent to our regular submissions email address will not be considered for the special fantasy issue. If you are pasting your submission into the body of your email, please use plain text without any special formatting. A garbled submission is a pain to read and is easy to avoid.

Include your legal name, your name as you want it published, your mailing address, your email address and a short biography to be published with your story. You may also include a link to your personal website. Submissions without this information may be rejected upon receipt, even if we've published your work before.

Please have the words "FANTASY SUBMISSION" in your subject, as well as your story's title. Emails received without the proper subject will be deleted as junk mail. We send an email acknowledging receipt of every submission. If you do not receive an email within fourteen days, assume we have not received your submission and resend it.

Please send only one submission per email. We do not limit the amount of submissions per author, but we do need each and every submission sent in a separate email, with all of the above requested information in each email. We will reject any emails that have more than one submission in it.

Please tell us if your submission is a reprint. We do consider reprints for publication, as long as the author discloses where the story was previously published and assures us that they retain all rights to the story. If you do not tell us your submission is a reprint and we see it published elsewhere (regardless of how long ago it was) your story will be rejected.

We will send acceptance and denial letters as soon as we've made a decision on your story. Some stories may be held for voting, though, which will not be held until September 5, 2009. You may not hear back on whether or not we've accepted your story until mid-September. We will notify all authors no later than September 15th, 2009. If you do not hear from us by then, please query.

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REGARDING SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: We WILL NOT accept simultaneous submissions. We don't want to reserve a slot for your story, only to have you pull it for publication elsewhere. Some stories may be held for voting, which will not be held until September 5, 2009, so you may not hear back on whether or not we've accepted your story until mid-September. Please do not submit your story elsewhere until we notify you we are declining your story.

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We are a paying market. All published stories will receive $5 US via PayPal, plus a year's subscription to Flash Me Magazine. We will choose our Feature Story only after all accepted stories are formatted for publication. Our Feature Story winner will receive an additional $15, for a total of $20 US via PayPal.

Please see our Editorial Process for more details.

PayPal payments will be sent out on or before publication. Subscriptions are usually sent out one day prior to the next scheduled issue (Jan 30, April 29, July 30, Oct 30). Alternative means of payment can be negotiated.

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RIGHTS: We are buying Exclusive Electronic Rights for a period of three months. We require permission to use accepted stories in our free online issue, our PDF subscription, and any future CD versions produced. We require permission to archive the story online for one year. We will continue to archive the story unless the author requests we remove it. If we decide to publish an anthology or print versions at any time in the future, we will contact the authors for permission to reprint their stories.