ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
ATTENTION! (LOOK HERE…)
Needs: cutting edge, hardboiled,
horror,
literary, noir, psychological/horror. No
fanfiction, romance, or swords & sorcery, no fantasy and no erotica.
We no longer publish erotica, but if your story contains graphic sex that is
essential to the story, that's fine.
Absolutely nothing glorifying Satanism!
No stories involving abuse of children,
animals or dead people.
Seriously folks,
ANIMAL ABUSE IS OUR NUMBER ONE NO-NO! IT WILL GET YOUR STORY KICKED BACK
QUICKER THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
Nothing so sick or
perverted that even I can’t read it. Nothing racist or bigoted,
anti-religion, nothing blasphemous or sacrilegious. Nothing strongly Conservative
or blatantly
Liberal or so politically correct the ACLU would love it. Seriously, keep your
politics to yourself or at least low-key. There’s a happy medium somewhere:
Write straight from the heart; call it like you see it, but show some control.
Also, no published song lyrics or poetry or quotes from other stories.
Material from texts or academic books may be quoted, but must be properly
footnoted.
Full Length: No more
than 3,500 words. Anything longer,
please query first. Flash fiction (approximately 800 words) is cool. Micro-Fiction
limit is 300 words. Fiction:
ONE STORY AT A TIME AND NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS! THE ABSOLUTE BEST WAY TO
MAKE THE YELLOW MAMA SHITLIST IS TO SEND A STORY AND THEN PULL IT BECAUSE YOU
SENT IT SOMEWHERE ELSE. ONCE YOU DO THAT, YOU’RE SCREWED AT OUR HOUSE! Poetry: up to three poems.
Again, no simultaneous submissions,
please.
If your story is a
reprint, it must have been published at least a year prior to your submission
with us. All reprints must be accompanied by the bibliography of the story, in
other words where and when it has been published before. In addition, ORIGINAL,
UNPUBLISHED WORK WILL ALWAYS BE GIVEN PREFERENCE OVER REPRINTS, and reprint
material may be "bumped" in favor of original, unpublished pieces. We
do this to keep fresh material and ideas flowing and to try and even the field
for the newer, upcoming writers.
We require Worldwide
Electronic Rights from the day of acceptance until the day the issue your
story/poem appears in is taken down from the magazine site, and placed into
archives. If the rights are for one
year, you cannot publish that piece anywhere else on the World Wide
Web until the work goes off the magazine site & into the
Archives. Artwork: up to three pieces.
How to contact:
Electronic submissions only. Send fiction and poetry as email
attachments in MS Word or something compatible to our new email address
at: crosmus@hotmail.com with “Submission” as subject.
Please do not paste your work into the body of an email and expect me to
reformat the thing. Send artwork as a file attachment to the same address.
Please don't submit using Google Outlook or other new, fancy apps. We're
old-fashioned, so just keep it simple, okay? In any case, include a brief cover
letter with a SHORT bio, stating some past
publications. AND INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THE EMAIL SUBJECT LINE. However, please
do not send a long list of every story/poem that's ever been published. And do
NOT include a synopsis of the story you're sending.
Please make sure your
name, address, & email address is on the first page of the
manuscript. Also make sure you insert numbers on every page.
Please
carefully proofread your
story. Lately I've been getting TOO many stories with misspelled words
& typos on the VERY FIRST PAGE. Sometimes the very first
PARAGRAPH! Like, what does that say about the writer? Please use Times
New Roman font—I HATE Courier (My mag, my rules!)
Payment:
The thrill of having your story/poem/artwork seen by so
many! The joy of seeing your name in
print! I could go on, and on. But sorry, no bucks, and since we’re not a print
mag, no copies, either! And last of all, please wait 3 months before submitting
new material, whether your work was accepted, or rejected.
Also,
you can read an interview with the editor at this link:
http://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/2018/05/sqf-revisited-yellow-mama.html
