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Important
Notice to writers
Currently closed to
submissions
Please check back to this page for
the latest information on submission guidelines and submission dates there may
be changes.
If you are looking
for more publications to submit to, here are some sites that run publisher
listings:
www.ralan.com,
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com,
www.duotrope.com.
NEO-OPSIS Submission Guidelines
Art Guidelines:
Accepting new art
submissions throughout the year.
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. If interested, send an email
to neoopsis@shaw.ca. The email should
include the artist's contact information and a link or website address where
examples of the artist's work may be viewed. The artist may include image
attachments of specific pieces available for consideration, or example works if
they do not have a website. If attaching art to your email, please let us know
if the work is unpublished, or give a brief publishing history per piece. If
you are only interested in doing covers, and not illustrations, please mention
that in your email. If an artist is chosen, they will be sent a story to
illustrate. There is also the chance that if a
submitted illustration is of interesting to us, and hasn't been previously
published, that we may publish it as a stand-alone piece between stories,
or as a cover.
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.
Email: neoopsis@shaw.ca
Written Submission Guidelines:
The next submission period has not yet been set.
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. We tend not to
publish horror.
Poem:
The kind of poem that is more likely to be accepted, for publication in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine,
would be science fiction or fantasy related.
Format:
If emailed: Each
submission should be sent separately (including poems), attached to the
email as a MS Word .doc file, .docx 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 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 a week of it being sent. If an emailed submission does not
get the auto reply it is likely the submission was not received or “submission”
was not in the subject line. The first stage of consideration may take up to
eight weeks. Submissions that make it into the second stage of consideration
may take longer. Please, no simultaneous
submissions and no previously
published works.
If mailed: (we actually prefer
emailed, but if you must) 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 cannot 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. Contributors may also purchase extra copies of their
issue at a contributor discount, as long as their issue is still in stock.
Discount varies depending on cost of publishing and cost of mailing.
Mailing
Address:
Neo-opsis
Science Fiction Magazine
4129 Carey
Road
Victoria, BC,
Canada V8Z 4G5
These Guidelines were updated on October 6, 2021. If you have any
questions email us at neoopsis@shaw.ca.
(Links to videos from panels discussing: writing,
cover letters,
making pitches to editors.)
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