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All submissions are online. All short fiction submissions must be submitted via this website. We will not respond to submissions sent to us by email. Submissions must be written in English. They must be authored by a single person, and be previously unpublished, whether online or otherwise in print. All submissions should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. Please set your work into 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font, double space pages, and paginate. Include a title page with your name, email address, title and word count.

All submissions are online. All plays must be submitted via this website. We will not respond to submissions sent to us by email. Submissions must be written in English. They must be authored by a single person, and be previously unpublished, whether online or otherwise in print. Please set your work into 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font, double space pages, and paginate. Include a title page with your name, email address, title and word count. The word count should be between 3,000 and 20,000 words.

All submissions are online. All short fiction submissions must be submitted via this website. We will not respond to submissions sent to us by email. Submissions must be written in English. They must be authored by a single person, and be previously unpublished, whether online or otherwise in print. All submissions should include the first three chapters up to a maximum of 20,000 words, combined into a single document. Please set your work into 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font, double space pages, and paginate. Include a title page with your name, email address, title and word count.

When you submit short fiction on this website, you must upload specific accompanying information, including: the author’s full name, the author’s desired publication name, the author’s contact information (email and telephone), and the word count of the story submitted. You must upload one 500 dpi head-and-shoulders photo of the author. If the submission is accepted, this will be published along with the biographical sketch. You must upload a short explanatory note of 100-150 words about the submission, written in the third person. You must also upload a short biographical sketch of the author, of 100-150 words, written in the third person. If your work is accepted, these will be published along with the photo. They may be lightly edited to fit into our publishing needs and norms.

When you submit plays on this website, you must upload specific accompanying information, including: the author’s full name, the author’s desired publication name, the author’s contact information (email and telephone), and the word count of the play submitted. You must upload one 500 dpi head-and-shoulders photo of the author. Alternative images without a face are acceptable. If the submission is accepted, this image will be published along with the biographical sketch. You must upload a short explanatory note about the submission, of 150-1000 words, written in the third person. You must also upload a short biographical sketch of the author, of 100-150 words, written in the third person. If your work is accepted, these will be published along with the photo. They may be lightly edited to fit into our publishing needs and norms.

When you submit short fiction on this website, you must upload specific accompanying information, including: the author’s full name, the author’s desired publication name, the author’s contact information (email and telephone), and the word count of the story submitted. You must upload one 500 dpi head-and-shoulders photo of the author. If the submission is accepted, Wendigo will contact you to sign an agreement with you, and assign an agent to represent and market your work. You must upload a short explanatory note of 100-150 words about the submission, identifying the elements of character, plot, themes and setting which reflect cultures and identities that are not part of the developed-economy western-world. You must also upload a short biographical sketch of the author, of 100-150 words, written in the third person.

All texts and documents uploaded must be in MSWord (.doc and .docx).  Do not include PDFs, URLs, dropbox links, Google doc links.

Images should be at least 300 dpi, and may be in jpg, png, tiff or PDF formats.

We accept multiple submissions. All submissions must be uploaded separately. Authors must notify us within a week of the piece being accepted by another journal. Submissions rejected by one journal may be considered by another.

We do not publish non-fiction, flash fiction, interviews, reviews, hot takes, or translations. We do not publish works which advocate particular religious or political viewpoints. We do not publish stories using the names of real people, companies or brands. We do not publish centos. We recommend that you do not submit works in progress, as they will be treated the same as all other submissions. We do not publish previously published or out-of-print work, or work published elsewhere including online in any format such as personal blogs and webpages. We do not publish academic articles, or any kind of imagery, photos or pictures. We do not publish sexually explicit or sexually violent content, in any journal.

We do not respond to pitches or to inquiries about the progress of a submission. We do not accept responsibility for incomplete, lost or erroneous submissions.

Below are some content guidelines for our different journals. These should be viewed as suggestions, not limitations. We welcome innovations in genre.

1. Parapet accepts literary fiction.
2. Paralella accepts fictional works of hard, soft, military and romantic science fiction, speculative fiction, steampunk and cyberpunk, and alternative history.
3. Paragon accepts fictional works dealing with LGBTQ voices, themes, characters, issues, lives and experiences.
4. Paraphrenia accepts fictional works including gothic, dark, horror, cosmic horror, utopian/dystopian, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, paranormal and supernatural.
5. Paratrooper accepts fictional works dealing with differently-abled and neurodiverse voices, themes, characters, issues, lives and experiences.
6. Paramorph accepts fictional works dealing with young adult and edgy voices, themes, characters, issues, lives and experiences.
7. Parametra accepts fictional works including cosy and historical mysteries, noir or hard-boiled mysteries, legal and courtroom thrillers, and crime and police procedurals.
8. Paradoxa accepts fictional works of fantasy including epic, urban and traditional fantasy, historical fantasy, magic realism, weird fiction, and slipstream.
9. Paradigma accepts short and full-length plays.
10. Paranorm accepts long fiction submissions, mainly novels, about and for teens and young adults, set in noin-western or mixed western and non-western cultures and contexts, dealing with the characters, places, situations and themes found in these settings.

Please see the events page for journals currently under development.

We will get back to you via email within 4 weeks.

Wendigo does not provide refunds. Please be sure that you have filled in the required information and uploaded your work according to our guidelines. Once you have clicked to pay, you cannot reverse or change the process in any way.

You may receive an email simply telling you your submission was rejected. There are a variety of reasons for this, including:

• incomplete or erroneous submission
• submission does not conform to formatting, length, or similar editorial requirements
• submission falls too far outside the stated scope of the journal
• submission is written in non-standard English or in a language other than English
• submission shows an inadequate language or proofreading level

If your manuscript was rejected, but not for any of the reasons above, then it was read by reviewers. In this case, you may receive an email telling you that your submission was rejected, and the reviewers’ comments will be included.

We may ask authors to edit their work, prior to publication.

If an author’s work is accepted for publication, the author agrees to grant Wendigo world-wide first internet and first serial rights and all archival rights. The author further agrees to grant Wendigo a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use the submitted content in connection with the operation of the Wendigo website and in Wendigo digital print journal editions. And finally, the author agrees to grant Wendigo, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, edit, translate and reformat the submitted content on the Wendigo website and in Wendigo digital print journal editions. The author retains all other rights.

You must sign a copyright agreement with Wendigo before we publish your work. I you do not agree with our copyright requirements, and our terms and conditions, we will return your work, and not publish it.

Please read the Terms and conditions here.

All submissions are read first by the managing editor, who checks that they conform to our guidelines. Those that do not will receive an email simply stating that they have been rejected on editorial grounds. Submissions that conform to our guidelines are then read by two literary editors. You will receive both feedback forms, and an overall result (accepted / not accepted). Our feedback form looks like this:

Our fee covers our website, administrative, software and processing costs. We would not be able to publish anything, without this fee. Every submission of short fiction costs 8€. Every submission of a play costs 10 €. Submissions containing more than one item will be rejected on editorial grounds.

Wendigo is unable to pay authors for their work. However, authors of submissions accepted for publication will receive the option to submit two further submissions at no cost.