Cast of Wonders
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Website: https://www.castofwonders.org/
Guidelines: https://www.castofwonders.org/submissions
Editor: Katherine Inskip, Editor; Alicia Caporaso, Assistant Editor.
Email address: mailto:backstage@escapeartists.net
About The Publication:
100% freelance. “Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction, founded in 2011 by Graeme Dunlop and Barry J. Northern. It became a part of the Escape Artists family of podcasts in 2016 alongside genre siblings Escape Pod, PseudoPod and PodCastle. It is presently edited by Katherine Inskip, with assistant editor Alicia Caporaso. Cast of Wonders is a qualified market for the SFWA and the SCBWI.” Welcomes new writers. Weekly. Pays within 60 days of publication. Publishes ms within 3-9 months of acceptance. Buys nonexclusive digital print publication rights, nonexclusive audio rights, non-commercial promotional use (reviewer materials, award consideration, ‘best of’ anthology submission, etc.), and promotional use of image and biographical information. Accepts reprints. Responds within one week for contact queries, and up to three months for submissions. Sample issues available online. Guidelines online.
Pays $0.08/word / $20 / $100
Current Needs:
: “We have submission windows specifically for Young Authors (19 or under) once or twice a year.” Pays $0.08/word for original fiction, $100/reprint fiction over 1500 words, and $20/reprint fiction under 1500 words. Submit fiction submissions via the Moksha submissions portal.
Pays $0.08/word / $20 / $100
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“Please read the guidelines! We are a genre fiction market, so all stories should have a clear element of fantasy, science fiction, or supernatural horror, in addition to being appropriate for a Young Adult audience. We only accept anonymized submissions, so please remove your byline from the ms (including page headers). We have submission windows specifically for Young Authors (19 or under) once or twice a year. If you have a passion for writing or reading young adult speculative fiction and want to learn more by auditioning for a role as one of our associate editors (slush pile readers), get in touch via backstage@escapeartists.net.”
Welcomes New Writers: Yes