Guidelines
Please use our submission manager for all submissions. Please include author's/artist's name, email address, and phone number. All short fiction, short short fiction, and
novel excerpts are considered for publication. We don't currently have a
strict cap on the number of pages, but it is uncommon for us to accept
stories that are over 35 pages.
We
accept artwork of all kinds, including paintings, photographs, digital
and mixed media art, etc. We recommend looking at past issues to get
a feel for the artwork that fits Fiction Fix. Please include up to ten images, preferably submitted in 1 PDF file. Please note that we cannot review artists' websites to select images from a large body of work.
We ask that artists send a specific set of images that they feel will
cohere well within a literary journal and represent their artistic
vision.
We are honored to receive your work, and try diligently to respond within a 3 month period. After that time, you are welcome to query editor@fictionfix.net. We accept simultaneous submissions. Please send no more than 2 stories per author at a time.
Please note, all stories and artwork
should be submitted via the submission manager; submissions received in
other ways cannot be reviewed.
Awards
Editor's Choice and Readers' Choice Award
winners are nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in The
Best American Short Stories (as long as they meet all criteria for
nomination), as well as Best of the Net and Best of the Web awards, and
other awards.
The Gypsy Sachet Award in Letters & Autobiography
No one knows better than
writers how grueling a task it can be to write a cover letter and
biography to attach to your story submissions. And certainly no one
knows just how enjoyable these collateral submission materials can
sometimes be than the staff of a literary journal. Fiction Fix
recognizes particularly creative, beautiful, funny, and poetic letter
& biography submissions with this new and unique award. Gypsy Sachet Award
winners are published in our Fall Fiction issues. All submission cover
letters & bios are considered for the award (no extra submission is
needed) though authors and artists are welcome to opt-out. There is no
specific word count -- we're interested in your one line or one page, etc.,
letters & bios. Please note that winning the Gypsy Sachet Award does not
imply acceptance or rejection of the main submission.
Commissioned Art Piece
Issue 6 of Fiction Fix included a
commissioned work by artist Melissa Bryant of the Fiction Fix staff
members as chairs (left). We're seeking submissions of representative
artworks for a new commissioned piece. The winning artist will receive
publication in an upcoming issue of Fiction Fix and on our website, and an
honorary award of $50, and will produce an original artwork including 6
members of the Fiction Fix team. Please send up to 3 representative
works along with a description of the work you will produce. We're open
to any and all media of artwork (except for photography) and are
particularly open to transmutations. Some things we like:
bunnies, mustaches.
Notice on copyright: The Artist maintains copyright of the work. The
Artist grants Fiction Fix irrevocable rights to reproduce the artwork
for non-commercial purposes such as, but not limited to, including the
artwork in any of our online or print issues, and in promotional
materials such as flyers and media publicity materials.
Copyright
Fiction Fix requests first-time, non-exclusive web and print rights and anthology rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication.
