Submissions

Submissions for Luna Station Quarterly 015 are open!

You can sign up for our mailing list to be notified when we close and open for submissions, or simply follow the schedule below.

Criteria

Luna Station Quarterly publishes speculative fiction written by women. We think girls write awesome characters and really cool stories and we want to show it to the world. We will consider stories submitted by any woman writer, regardless of experience or writing resume.

Stuff we want:

• Fantasy
• Science Fiction
• Space Opera
• New Fairy Tales
• Some creepiness
• Stories that explore the nooks and crannies of an original world
• Big events from the everyman perspective
• Unique settings and storytelling forms
• Well written stories with strong characters

Stuff we don't want:

• Anything biased toward any religion, race or moral preference
• Extreme gore or sexual content (everything in moderation)
• Fan Fiction (original stories only, please)
• Bad grammar/punctuation (please proofread and watch your sentence structure!)
• Plagiarism

Format and Details

Stories should be 500 to 7000 words in length. We may publish longer or shorter works, but the greater your story is above or below limit, the less likely we are to publish it. No poetry please.

We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

A Note on File Format

Send your submissions to us (via our submission form) as an RTF, DOC, DOCX, or ODT attachment. All other attachments will not be read. Standard Manuscript Format preferred, but not required. Make your files neat and tidy and include Title and Author on the first page!

Reprints & Multiple submissions

We prefer original works, but will consider reprints. Authors should be sure they have the right to sell reprints. If your work is a reprint, include any necessary reprint information at the bottom of the work, such as "First appeared in XYZ Magazine, May 2011."

Submit only one story per submission period.

Deadlines:

Luna Station Quarterly is published once a quarter, and has the following schedule:

Response Time

Our response time varies, but we will reply to you by two weeks after the end of the submission period for each issue. Feel free to contact us (via the contact form) if we do not acknowledge your submission within three weeks of the end of the submission deadline.

If you want to ask about something you have submitted, it is extremely important to use the contact form) and include the date when you sent the submission.

If your story is accepted, you will receive an email that includes the publication date and a short, simple contract. This must be returned before publication or your story will not be published.

Rights

Copyright remains yours at all times. We simply ask for the right to publish your story on our website, and also add it to the ebook (epub, mobi, pdf) version. All stories will be archived indefinitely on our website. If you want us to remove a story from our archive or the downloadables, please write us via the contact form to let us know.

Anthology rights: to be determined later. If ever such a thing comes to pass, authors will be contacted to work out terms.

Payment

Luna Station Quarterly pays $5 USD for each story, payment made via Paypal. In addition, authors receive a lifetime subscription to the ebook version of the magazine. We also provide a profile page for all authors which may be used to link to a homepage, display contact information, and list other publication credits.

Final Notes

We reserve the right to change the submission process between issues. If you have any futher questions regarding this process, please use the contact form to get in touch.

Ready?

Then use our submission form and good luck!