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Contributor Guidelines for Triangulation: Last ContactWe are open to submissions until March 31, 2011.Contributor Guidelines for Triangulation: Last ContactTriangulation is an annual 125-150+ page short fiction anthology that publishes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and any other speculative fiction that caught the editors' fancy. Every year we have a theme: 2011's theme is "Last Contact". We pay semi-pro rates and are available online at places like Amazon.com. We're a small outfit but we work hard to produce a quality product; Asimov's Science Fiction said we were "equal to any issue of your favorite prozine." No, we don't get tired of mentioning that Asimov's said nice things about us. We define "short fiction" as "up to about 5,000 words or so." We have no reason to impose hard arbitrary word limits, but we are interested in publishing a wide variety of entertaining and literate stories, so the more space a story would take, the more it will need to impress us. If you have an awesome story that exceeds 5K then by all means send it; but be warned that we have yet to accept anything for publication much longer than 5000 words. We dig flash; there is no minimum word count. We have no interest in getting more specific about the term "speculative fiction." Science fiction, horror, fantasy, magic realism, alternate history, whatever -- if there's a speculative element vital to your story, we'll gladly give it a read. We love creative interpretations of our theme, "Last Contact". Don't ask us what it means -- tell us what it means with a story that convinces us you're right. We publish both new and established writers; the level of experience for the authors gracing our pages has ranged from "first time in print" to "Hugo winner" and "Nebula winner". The majority of our stories usually wind up being from American authors, but we've had a number of international contributions; we're happy to consider work from anywhere in the world, just as long as it's written in English. We will run mature content if we like the story. So make sure there's an actual story in that mature content. We will consider reprints, but we are much more picky with them. If the story ran someplace obscure, then it's probably new to our readers; if it ran someplace high-profile, it's going to have to be the best thing we've read since the alphabet to get in. We do not publish poetry. Sorry. No fanfic, even if it's fanfic of a fictional universe that has passed into public domain. No thinly-disguised transcripts of roleplaying sessions, no settings obviously based on D&D or other such games. Don't get us wrong, we love to game ourselves -- which means our imaginations are probably too cluttered with elves and dwarves and orcs and the like as it is. The submission period is December 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011. All electronic submits must be sent within that period, all snail mail submits must be postmarked by the deadline. Compensation:We pay two cents per word (USA funds, rounded to the nearest 100 words, US$10 minimum payment) on publication and one contributor's copy. The anthology will be published in late July of 2011. We purchase North American Serial Rights, and Electronic Rights for the downloadable version(s). All subsidiary rights released upon publication. Contributors will also have the option of purchasing additional copies of the anthology at reduced price. How To Submit:Electronic submissions make our lives easier. Please upload your story via Submishmash (see SUBMIT link below). If this is your first time submitting to a publication that utilizes Submishmash, you will have to create an account with them. It’s free. We'll consider stories in the following formats:
Please use industry standard manuscript format. There's disagreement on some of the exact details of the "standard". We're not testing you to see if you can follow each and every niggling detail, we just want a manuscript that is easy for us to read. SUBMIT that story!Please report your response times at Duotrope's Digest.If you absolutely positively cannot submit electronically, please send the manuscript (with either a SASE or a return email address) to: Triangulation 2011 No hand-written manuscripts. We gotta draw the line somewhere. No multiple submissions; only send us one story at a time. No simultaneous submissions, don't send it to us if someone else is already considering it. Response:Expect to hear back from us within a month. Feel free to start sending us nagging emails if you haven't heard from us after two months. Please please please include your name, phone number, postal address, and email address in your manuscript header. (See "standard manuscript format" above.) If that's not feasible for whatever reason, please include an alternate email address or other way to contact you. As much as we love email, it's not the most reliable technology in the world, and if something goes awry with your address, we're both going to wind up frustrated. (We've responded to every story we've ever received, but we know for a fact that at least a few of those responses got eaten by gremlins lurking in the Internet's many tubes.) Eligibility:All writers, including those who are known or even related to the editorial staff, are permitted to submit to the Triangulation anthology. That doesn't mean we'll automatically publish them; just that we're willing to look at their work. (We're not worried about nepotism; we tell our friends that their writing sucks all the time.) Please note that most of the editorial staff attends the Write or Die (WorD) critique group which meets every other Tuesday in Monroeville, PA. Also note that WorD is an open workshop. If you live in or near the Pittsburgh region and have ever wanted to force a market's editorial staff to give you detailed feedback on a story, this is your chance. Who We Are:Triangulation is an annual anthology produced by PARSEC Ink, the publishing wing of the PARSEC science-fiction association in Pittsburgh, PA. A new edition of Triangulation has been published every year since 2003 (save for a brief hiatus in 2006 when we changed over to an international format). Triangulation shares an informal relationship with PARSEC's annual short story contest, and in past years Triangulation editors have been recruited as mid-round judges. Authors who do well in the contest may be offered publication in Triangulation solely at the discretion of Triangulation's editors. Note, though, that the PARSEC contest and Triangulation Anthology are two completely different publications; you can submit to one or the other or even both, but be aware that because they are different publications, they have different requirements and submission guidelines, including eligibility and word length. Thank you for considering Triangulation: Last Contact as a market for your work; we look forward to reading it. --Jamie Lackey & Steve Ramey, Editors, Triangulation: Last Contact Working the editorial staff:Many markets advise you to buy a back-issue or two so you can better understand what the editor is looking for. If you want to research Triangulation that way, please feel free to do so. -- We'll never object to selling more copies. But the truth is, these guidelines contain everything you need to know to get your story accepted. (If they didn't, they'd be some suck-ass guidelines, wouldn't they.) Don't buy "End of Time", "Taking Flight", "Dark Glass", or "End of The Rainbow" just to get some insight into submitting a story to us; buy them because you like and want to support good fiction. Overall, we're looking for well-written stories where the anthology's theme is integral to the plot. We want to see believable characters and interesting plots with a speculative element that is inseparable from the story. If you want to understand more about what we're looking for and the selection process, I recommend you follow the blogs of the editorial staff: Last Updated Tuesday, November 30 2010 @ 08:37 PM GMT |
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