Submissions wanted (science fiction, speculative fiction) (worldwide) | 8 cents per word
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Deadline: 13 October 2025
Submissions Are Open for issue #19
Share your story by October 13, 2025
While we redesign the magazine our submissions response time has slowed to a crawl. We may still be reviewing your submission for issue #18, but don’t let that stop you from submitting another story for this window. We hope to avoid this sort of space-time kerfuffle in the future.
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!
Planet Scumm accepts submissions from writers across the world. Our pages have hosted the imaginative work of authors from every contintent but Antartica. We want to hear from writers with as various experiences, identities, and points of view as possible.
Please do not busy our big-hearted slush readers with AI-generated tripe. Stories generated in part or whole by AI are in violation of our author contract.
Specs
WHAT TO SUBMIT
Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain
Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream
Basically anything that pleases Scummy, our megaphone-toting slime buddy, will be considered for entry to the interstellar archive aboard Scummy’s saucer
HOW TO SUBMIT
Include submissions as a .doc or .docx attachment to PlanetScummSubmissions@gmail.com along with a brief cover letter in the email body. Please attach only your story (no images, do not put your story in the body text of the email).
Stories, or collections of flash fiction, should be no more than 5,000 words in length, and submitted in standard manuscript format.
Submit only ONE previously unpublished short story or flash collection. We do not accept multiple submissions from the same author in one reading period.
Simultaneous submissions are okay, as long as you promptly withdraw a story accepted elsewhere.
SCHEDULE, RIGHTS, AND PAYMENT
Accepted authors receive 8 cents a word and one contributor copy.
Our publication operates in print, e-book, and audiobook. Some accepted stories will also be published on our website. We purchase exclusive English-language print, audio, and electronic publishing rights for six months, with non-exclusive rights thereafter.
Authors will receive payment within 3 months of finalizing story edits.
Click here to read stories we've published in past issues.
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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
Questions/submissions: planetscummsubmissions@gmail.com
Website: https://www.planetscumm.space/
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