Updated May 7, 1996

SF Magazine Submission Data

Here's a list of editorial addresses for Science Fiction and Fantasy magazines. Send a SASE along with a note requesting submission guidelines.

These often give great details of what each magazine is looking for, and occasionally, very good advice about writing. I highly recommend getting guidelines from every magazine here, even if you aren't interested in submitting to them at the moment.

This is by no means complete, so let me know of any others you've seen.

Aboriginal Science Fiction // Absolute Magnitutde // Adventures of Sword & Sorcery // Analog Science Fiction and Fact // Asimov's Science Fiction // Century // CRANK! // Interzone // The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction // Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine // ON SPEC // Pirate Writings // Realms of Fantasy // Science Fiction Age // Talebones // Terra Incognita // Tomorrow Speculative Fiction // Worlds of Fantasy & Horror

In fact, this list pales compared to Marketlist, an incredible resource listing dozens and dozens of potential publications for your work. I cannot recommend it too highly; it's by far the best source of info out there.

Aboriginal Science Fiction:

P.O. Box 2449
Woburn, MA 01888-0849
Quarterly: Science Fiction
Ed. Charles C. Ryan
Science Fiction Stories between 2,500 and 7,500 words

Absolute Magnitude:

c/o DNA Publishing
P.O. Box 13
Greenfield, MA 01302
Quarterly: Science Fiction Adventures
Ed. Warren Lapine
Science Fiction Adventure stories up to 25,000 words.

Adventures of Sword & Sorcery:

PO Box 285
Xenia, OH 45385
E-mail: dspress@erinet.com (submissions OK, ASCII or RTF files)
WWW: http://www.erinet.com/dspress/
Quarterly: Sword & Sorcery
Ed. Randy Dannenfelser
Sword & Sorcery, High Fantasy, and Heroic Fantasy to 20,000 words.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact:

1270 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
E-mail: 71154.662@compuserve.com (letters to editor only)
Monthly (11 issues/year): Hard Science Fiction
Ed: Stanley Schmidt
Stories 2,000 - 20,000 words where science is at the forefront.

Asimov's Science Fiction:

1270 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
E-mail: 71154.662@compuserve.com (letters to editor only)
Monthly (11 issues/year): Science Fiction / Contemporary Fantasy
Ed: Gardner Dozois
Stories up to 15,000 words

Century:

P.O. Box 150510
Brooklyn, NY 11215-0510
E-mail: robkill@aol.com
WWW: http://www.supranet.com/century/
Bi-Monthly: Literary Speculative Fiction
Ed: Robert K.J. Killheffer
Stories up to 25,000 words

CRANK!

P.O. Box 380473
Cambridge, MA 02238
WWW: http://world.std.com/~bmpress/
Quarterly: Literary Speculative Fiction
Ed. Brian Cholfin
Stories 3,000-10,000 words

Interzone

217 Preston Drive
Brighton, BN1 6FI, UK
Monthly: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ed. David Pringle
Stories 2,000-8,000 words

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:

PO Box 1806
New York, NY 10159-1806
WWW: http://www.enews.com:80/magazines/fsf/
Monthly (11 issues): Science Fiction / Contemporary Fantasy
Ed: Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Gordon Van Gelder takes over on Jan 1, 1997 at the above address. Do not submit new stories until then.]
Stories up to 25,000 words

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine:

P.O. Box 249
Berkeley, CA 94701
WWW: http://www.mzbfm.com/ (includes full guidelines)
Quarterly: Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
Ed: Mrs. Marion Zimmer Bradley
Stories up to 7,500 words, though 3,500-4,000 best. Beware of fantasy cliches.

ON SPEC:

Box 4727
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 5G6
WWW: http://www.greenwoods.com/onspec/
Quarterly: Canadian Speculative Fiction
Ed: Everybody on staff
Stories up to 6,000 words. Unabashedly Canadian -- must be by Canadian writers or have decidedly Canadian elements. Competition ms format -- only title keyword and pg # on top of each page. Include separate cover letter with name, address and title, and of course if submitting from outside Canada, include IRC's with SAE.

Pirate Writings:

PO Box 329
Brightwaters, NY 11718
Quarterly: Science Fiction / Fantasy / Mystery
Ed: Edward J. McFadden
Stories up to 7,500 words

Realms of Fantasy:

P.O. Box 527
Rumson, NJ 07760
E-mail: s.mccarthy@genie.geis.com (letters to editor only)
Bi-Monthly: Fantasy
Ed: Shawna McCarthy
Stories up to 10,000 words

Science Fiction Age:

441 Carlisle Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
E-mail: s.edelman1@genie.geis.com (letters to editor only)
Bi-Monthly: Science Fiction / 1 Fantasy story per issue
Ed: Scott Edelman
Stories up to 20,000 words

Talebones:

c/o Fairwood Press
10531 SE 250th Place #104
Kent, WA 98031
Quarterly: Dark Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy
Ed: Patrick and Honna Swenson
Stories up to 5,000 words. Include cover letter.

Terra Incognita: A New Generation of Science Fiction:

52 Windermere Avenue #3
Lansdowne, PA 19050-1812
WWW: http://www.netaxs.com/~incognit/
Quarterly: Earth-Based Science Fiction, Present and Future
Ed. Jan Berrien Berends
Up to 15,000 words. Also poetry and articles (query for non-fiction)

Tomorrow Speculative Fiction:

c/o The Unifont Company, Inc.
P.O. Box 6038
Evanston, IL 60204
http://www.tomorrowsf.com/
Bi-Monthly: Speculative Fiction (electronic format after the Feb '97 issue at above URL)
Ed: Algis Budrys
Stories up to 20,000 words

Worlds of Fantasy & Horror (formerly Weird Tales):

c/o Terminus Publishing
123 Crooked Lane
King of Prussia, PA 19406-2570
Quarterly: Horror / Dark Fantasy
Ed: Darrell Schweitzer
Stories up to 20,000 words

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