Submissions
We're currently closed for submissions. Our next submission period opens on September 15th.
Criteria
Luna Station Quarterly publishes speculative fiction written by women-identified authors. We think women 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. If you consider yourself on the woman end of the gender spectrum in any significant capacity, you're welcome here!
Basic guidelines
- Word limit
- 500 - 7000, no exceptions
- Payment
- $10 USD, via Paypal
- Genre
- Science fiction and fantasy short fiction. No horror, but dark SF/F is permitted.
- Language
- English, translations accepted
- Simultaneous submissions
- None accepted
- Reprints
- None accepted
- Multiple submissions
- None accepted. One submission per period.
- Rights
- First electronic rights, prefer 3 month exclusivity. Non-exclusive anthology rights for future "Best of Luna Station Quarterly" anthologies.
Important details
Our response time varies, but you will hear from us no later then one month before publication.
Deadlines
Luna Station Quarterly is published once a quarter, and has the following schedule:
- Publication Date
- Submission Dates
- March 1st
- September 15th - November 15th
- June 1st
- December 15th - February 15th
- September 1st
- March 15th - May 15th
- December 1st
- June 15th - August 15th
Full guidelines
Stuff we want:
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Space Opera
- New Fairy Tales (not retellings)
- 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:
- Extreme gore or sexual content, in particular no explicit rape or sexual assault. (everything in moderation)
- The first chapter of a novel
- Bizarro fiction
- Poetry
- Plays
- Fan Fiction (original stories only, please)
- Bad grammar/punctuation (please proofread and watch your sentence structure!)
- Plagiarism
A further note about sex and violence in submissions.
Science fiction has a long-standing tradition of pushing boundaries and asking difficult questions. It is meant to challenge
us and ask us to look at ourselves and how we treat each other and the world around us. That said, LSQ is centered on
uplift and so any story that contains explicit sexual situations or violence especially toward women will be considered
more carefully than other stories and the content must be justified within the story's plot.
Reprints & Multiple submissions
Reprints are not considered.
Multiple submissions are not considered. One submission per period.
Response Time
Our response time varies, but you will hear from us no later then one month before publication.
Feel free to contact us (via the contact form) if you have any issues with our submission manager.
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 in the ebook (epub, mobi, pdf) and print editions of Luna Station Quarterly, as well as permission to reprint it in any future "best of" anthologies. If you want us to remove a story from our archive, please write us via the contact form to let us know.
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.
Submit Your Story
