Imagitopia

Submission Guidelines for Imagitopia

IMAGITOPIA is a new fantasy fiction podcast and digital magazine produced by Android Press and featuring narrated fantasy fiction plus author and editor interviews, news and events, and nerd-outs on fantasy tropes and other related topics. 

We are currently open for REPRINTS ONLY of fantasy short stories to be narrated for the podcast and published in print on the forthcoming website/digital zine. We hope to begin buying original, unpublished stories following our upcoming kickoff fundraiser, but we currently only accept reprints.

​​Our first submission window opens on September 1, 2023. For more information on when we're open and closed to submissions throughout the year, please see our schedule below.

Submission Schedule

Open: January 1-31
Closed: February 1 - April 31

Open: May 1-31
Closed: June 1 - August 31

Open: September 1-30
Closed: October 1 - December 31

Submissions are only accepted through IMAGITOPIA's Moksha submission portal. Any submissions received via email or any other method will be deleted without review or response. If for some reason you are unable to submit via our Moksha due to accessibility issues, please email us at the address listed above and we'll be happy to make alternative arrangements for your submission.

*BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, womxn, people living with disabilities, those living in the Global South, and authors from other marginalized populations are strongly encouraged to submit.

WORD COUNT

flash fiction: up to 1,500 words
short stories: up to 5,000 words

PAY RATE

We currently pay 1 cent USD per word for previously published flash fiction and short stories with a $10 USD minimum.

GENRES

We accept submissions of fantasy and all its subgenres including but not limited to:

• high fantasy

• low fantasy

• mythpunk

• urban fantasy

• steampunk

• magical realism

• aetherpunk

• science fantasy

• solarpunk fantasy

• dark fantasy

• horror

• slipstream

• fairy tales​

FORMATING

Please use something approximating Shunn Modern Manuscript Format. Most importantly:

• 12 point Times New Roman or Georgia font

• double spacing

• one inch margins

• number pages

• wordcount in top right corner of page 1

Moksha will capture your name and contact information, so don't worry about that, but also we're not concerned with blind submissions so if your name is on your manuscript, that's okay.

COVER LETTER

Please keep your cover letter simple. The only things you need to include are:

• the subgenre(s) of fantasy your story falls under

• a brief synopsis of the story (a paragraph or less. Think logline more than summary)

• any self-identification you'd like to share (BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Global South, disabled, neurodivergent, etc).

​TRANSLATIONS 

We currently accept translations only if they've been previously published in English. Previously published translations are paid at the same reprint rate as stories that were originally written and published in English.

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS

Please only submit one previously published story at a time. If you receive a rejection and our submission window is still open, then you're welcome to submit another previously published story.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS

You're more than welcome to submit your story elsewhere while it's under consideration with us. Just keep in mind, as a reprint market we can't publish your story while it's currently under exclusivity with another publisher. 

RESPONSE TIMES

If you don't get a response to your submission within 90 days, or if you have questions about the submission guidelines, then please feel free to inquire by emailing us at info@android-press.com.​

RIGHTS & CONTRACT

Please view our sample contract for information on the rights wetake for publication. 

*Please note that the above license applies only to our podcast audio performance of your work. It doesn't apply to your story itself. You retain the full copyright and all rights to any other use of the story after our three month exclusivity period.

**Please also note that our exclusivity period does not mean your story has to be removed from any sites where it has been previously published. It only means you can't reprint or repod the story again for three months from the time it's published in IMAGITOPIA.