Market

The submission deadline for the fabulous February 2022 issue of Electric Spec has passed. If you submitted: Thank you! You will hear back from us in early Feb at the latest.
We are planning the next production meeting. We are deep, deep into the slush pile.

As I read stories, I am strongly reminded of the importance of market. Electric Spec is a market for short speculative fiction. The editors of Electric Spec have some subjective opinions about short speculative fiction. If you read past issues of Electric Spec (all free!) you will learn what we like in our particular market. Other markets like other stuff.

Stories for our market must include some kind of speculative element. Stories must include at least one point-of-view character. We do not like many hundreds of consecutive words of descriptions. Personally, I do not like a lot about hair. We do not like many hundreds of consecutive words of telling. We do like showing. We do like unique situations/worlds/problems/creatures.
We also don't like it when you don't obey our submission and/or formatting guidelines.

Good luck with your submissions!