LITMAGS INVITING SUBMISSIONS
Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
Now approaching its ninth anniversary, US speculative fiction online magazine Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores is open to submissions on the first two days of every month (Eastern Standard Time), writes Gary Dalkin.
Editor-in-chief Fran Eisemann and her team will consider all speculative fiction, including reprints and poetry upwards of 1,000 words. Shorter stories have more chance of being purchased, and the magazine has yet to find a story over 9,000 words which they have even considered.
The editors, who also include Joel Roosa, fantasy editor and Tara Grimravn, assistant Eldritch editor, are looking for well written original science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, from anywhere around the world. They care about character, plot, ideas, and storytelling ability, and accept both serious and humorous work. If you use real science in your science fiction, get it right, and the science fictional elements of the story must be integral to the plot. Similarly, in a fantasy story some element of the fantastical aspect must be intrinsic to the tale. The title considers Eldritch to mean, ‘the strange, the indefinable, the liminal, the uncanny things between the spaces that sweep tingles over us’.