WHAT WE PUBLISH
FLASH ME MAGAZINE is a quarterly publication brought to you by Winged Halo Productions.
We are a paying market, accepting all genres of fiction under 1,000
words. Stories with excessive gore, violence, profanity, or sex are not appropriate for Flash Me Magazine. As a magazine
geared towards readers of all ages and beliefs, we reserve the right to
decline stories based on their content. We do not publish poetry.
Issues are published on January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31. Submission deadlines are one month prior to publication.
*The deadline for our next regular issue is December 31, 2009 @ midnight EST. We are currently accepting submissions for our October all-fantasy issue. See our Fantasy Issue Guidelines for more information. We will not review regular submissions again until October 1, 2009.*
PLEASE NOTE: We are one of the few markets that offers editorial feedback with rejection letters, and we continue to do so because the majority of authors seem to appreciate knowing why we passed on their story.
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SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
Last Updated 5-2-09 |
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 or .rtf document to this email address: submissions@wingedhalo(dot)com. Do NOT send .docx documents - we cannot open them. 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 email address and a short biography
to be published with your story. Submissions without this information will be
rejected upon receipt, even if we've published your work before. You may also include a link to
your personal website.
Please have the word SUBMISSION in your subject, as well as your story's title. Emails
received without the proper subject will be deleted as junk mail. We notify each author when we receive their submission. If you do not
receive an email within a few 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, per quarter, 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 at least two weeks prior to
publication (Jan 17, April 17, July 17, Oct 17). If you do not
receive an email by then, please email us with a query.
We do not
encourage simultaneous submissions. We don't want to reserve a slot for
your story, only to have you pull it for publication elsewhere.
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Click here to meet our
editors and see what kind of stories they like.
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PLEASE NOTE: All rejection letters include each editor's vote and the basis for their decision. This editorial feedback is not always appreciated, but the majority of authors thank us for doing this.
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| PAYMENT |
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.
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| OUR NEW BLOG |
Flash Me Magazine has a new blog called The Slush Pile where we will post updates on incoming submissions.
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