Andromeda

Introduction

Although we're based in Australia we welcome submissions from all countries.

We submit every issue to reviewers at Locus, Asimovs, Tangent, IROSF, The Fix and more, and also to several Year's Best anthologies. We're reviewed regularly by many of them. Getting published in ASIM does not mean your fiction will only be seen by a handful of wallabies in outback Australia!

What to submit:

Stories:

We accept science fiction, fantasy and horror works up to 10,000 words in length. Longer works will be considered, but please contact us first about those. Submissions of up to 20,000 words are permitted from subscribers and from authors resident in Australia and New Zealand. (It costs a fortune for Aus & NZ authors to post a story that length to overseas markets - that's why we bend the guidelines for them.)

Andromeda Spaceways is intended for a wide audience, so we don't want anything more than M rated: No gratuitous sex or graphic violence. We want the overall tone of ASIM to be light as opposed to the dark-and-gritty style that characterises so many other SF mags this day and age. This does not mean we only publish light humour pieces, though. Our readers are just as keen on traditional fantasy and hard science fiction. We're just not the best market for doom-laden go-nowhere stories which push the boundaries of the English language into new and unfortunate places. Given an otherwise even choice between angst and adventure, we'll grab the adventure.

For much more detail on the type of fiction we print, see Hints and Tips

Poetry:

Will consider anything. No more than two pages worth, please.

Articles:

Non-fiction articles will be considered on anything vaguely related to speculative fiction. We're after articles on the speculative genres and their writers, weird science, real science, weird history, straight history, con reports, fads and geekdom... anything. We will also consider amusing pseudo-articles, particularly about the "fictional" Andromeda Spaceways ... (or nasty articles about our competitors...) We're somewhat less interested in articles about how to write - we're going for broad interest, and there are other venues for those.

Reprints:

We have been known to take reprints, but please query before submitting a previously published story. When you query, please mention when and where it was previously published.

Artwork:

ASIM is looking for B&W internal illustrations. If you are interested in supplying artwork, please contact our Art Director

Samples of your work can be sent as screen resolution scanned images (no more than 300kb per image, please), links to online galleries, or mailed to the above address.

Rights

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine buys First Australian Serial Rights and limited electronic rights.

ASIM is a print magazine but we've taken our first steps towards having a PDF version available. As a result our contracts now ask for limited electronic rights as well. We will offer the electronic version in parallel with the print version, and only for a limited time (3 months or until the next issue, whichever comes first). Royalties will be paid on the e-version... the current plan is that 25% of profits from the e-version will be divided on a pro-rata basis to the contributors. This is separate from the payment for appearance in the print issue, which is made on publication. The electronic rights will be optional, but we feel that the benefits in advertising and saving trees will be well worth it. Not only will you get paid twice for the same story, but you'll also reach a much larger audience.

No Simultaneous Submissions & One Submission at a time, please!

How To Submit:

Please Note:
Every year we take a reading break from 1st December through to 15th January.
Please do not submit during this period

E-mail to Submissions as an attached RTF.
(Checkout our formatting guidelines)
or
Mail:
Andromeda Spaceways Submissions
PO Box 5689
Latham ACT 2615
Australia

Please provide manuscript in electronic form. Email is preferred, but you can send either a 3.5" floppy or CD-R to the above address. We can't cope with printed submissions.

Submissions will only be returned if SASE included.
(refer to: Formatting for preferred submission format.) This link is to an excellent reference on how to format manuscripts. William Shunn has no relationship to ASIM.

Please make sure you include full contact details, including postal address, e-mail, and phone number.

Payment:

Short Fiction: 1.25c/Word(Australian), with a $20 minimum per piece. (POP)
Poetry and Flash Fiction: A$10 per piece.
Artwork: We have a set fee for the cover, and another set fee for all the internal artwork in a single issue.

Every contributor receives a copy of the magazine their item appears in, whether that's fiction, non-fiction, artwork or poetry.

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