Submission Guidelines
Featured Guest Author Submission Guidelines: Sometimes Hilarious Horror
Hi, and thanks for your interest in submitting to Sometimes Hilarious Horror. We're really proud of our little mag and excited to check out your submission.
What exactly is a Guest Author? If selected, we’ll include your submission in an upcoming issue of Sometimes Hilarious Horror, offered exclusively to subscribers of the Sometimes Hilarious Horror Ko-Fi page. Payment for selected original short stories is $25. In addition to publication of your story, we’ll ask you to complete a short interview so our readers can get to know you. Guest authors are encouraged (though not required) to market their appearance on social media and to your existing readership, families, etc.
What are we looking for? Great Question!
--Original, unpublished short horror stories of up to 15,000 words (pay $25)
--Submissions of 1-4 original, unpublished horror-centric poems with a central or connecting theme (pay $25).
--Reprints (previously published work that you currently own the rights to) of the above categories. (pay $10)
--Novel chapters will be considered provided they are a complete narrative. (pay $10)
--Cover art (pay $25). Accepted artists are also invited to be interviewed for the issue in which their work appears.
--Have an idea for a feature article or a regular column? Tell us all about it. Pay negotiable.
How do we want it? Your submission should be in a doc or docx format. 12 point type in a reasonable font. Double spaced. One space after a full-stop. No headers, footers, or page numbers. Art should be in jpg or png format. Watermarks preferred. If your work is accepted, we'll get clean copies from you before publication.
What if my horror is actually very dark comedy? We would very much like to read it. We suggest always using the most inclusive definition of horror possible. Horror fan straddle many genres, and its own subgenres can leap into other genres as well. Don’t limit yourself, but don’t forget to scare us or make us laugh in a deeply dark way.
How long after I submit will I know if I’m accepted? No more than six weeks, but probably less. No need to check in with us before then.
Can I use AI to write my story? In short, no. Your contract will stipulate that your work is entirely created by humans. If AI wants to publish AI work, it can start its own magazine.
Is Sometimes Hilarious Horror in print? Not yet. But we will be when we have enough subscribers. We’d love to make it a quarterly print publication.
How many Guest Authors do you feature? Right now, four per issue. Our hope though, is to bring in as many as eight new authors with interviews in every issue. We know the talent is out there and we want more than anything to put it on blast.
Will my work get edited? Yes. Your work will be edited and returned to you with suggested edits. You, not we, make the final choices on editing decisions. That said, your work should be free from errors and presented to us as if it won’t be edited. Like the old spaghetti sauce commercial used to say—perfect is a great place to start.
Where do I sent it? wednes@sometimeshilarioushorror.com
Include a cover letter detailing your publishing history, other things you’ve written, your website or social media links—all that there.
Hi, and thanks for your interest in submitting to Sometimes Hilarious Horror. We're really proud of our little mag and excited to check out your submission.
What exactly is a Guest Author? If selected, we’ll include your submission in an upcoming issue of Sometimes Hilarious Horror, offered exclusively to subscribers of the Sometimes Hilarious Horror Ko-Fi page. Payment for selected original short stories is $25. In addition to publication of your story, we’ll ask you to complete a short interview so our readers can get to know you. Guest authors are encouraged (though not required) to market their appearance on social media and to your existing readership, families, etc.
What are we looking for? Great Question!
--Original, unpublished short horror stories of up to 15,000 words (pay $25)
--Submissions of 1-4 original, unpublished horror-centric poems with a central or connecting theme (pay $25).
--Reprints (previously published work that you currently own the rights to) of the above categories. (pay $10)
--Novel chapters will be considered provided they are a complete narrative. (pay $10)
--Cover art (pay $25). Accepted artists are also invited to be interviewed for the issue in which their work appears.
--Have an idea for a feature article or a regular column? Tell us all about it. Pay negotiable.
How do we want it? Your submission should be in a doc or docx format. 12 point type in a reasonable font. Double spaced. One space after a full-stop. No headers, footers, or page numbers. Art should be in jpg or png format. Watermarks preferred. If your work is accepted, we'll get clean copies from you before publication.
What if my horror is actually very dark comedy? We would very much like to read it. We suggest always using the most inclusive definition of horror possible. Horror fan straddle many genres, and its own subgenres can leap into other genres as well. Don’t limit yourself, but don’t forget to scare us or make us laugh in a deeply dark way.
How long after I submit will I know if I’m accepted? No more than six weeks, but probably less. No need to check in with us before then.
Can I use AI to write my story? In short, no. Your contract will stipulate that your work is entirely created by humans. If AI wants to publish AI work, it can start its own magazine.
Is Sometimes Hilarious Horror in print? Not yet. But we will be when we have enough subscribers. We’d love to make it a quarterly print publication.
How many Guest Authors do you feature? Right now, four per issue. Our hope though, is to bring in as many as eight new authors with interviews in every issue. We know the talent is out there and we want more than anything to put it on blast.
Will my work get edited? Yes. Your work will be edited and returned to you with suggested edits. You, not we, make the final choices on editing decisions. That said, your work should be free from errors and presented to us as if it won’t be edited. Like the old spaghetti sauce commercial used to say—perfect is a great place to start.
Where do I sent it? wednes@sometimeshilarioushorror.com
Include a cover letter detailing your publishing history, other things you’ve written, your website or social media links—all that there.
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