We also ask for several other rights: translation, audio, and the right (with additional royalties) to include the story in Tor.com-branded anthologies. What rights does that give you? Our contract covers the right to publish the story at Tor.com and related electronic endeavors. What we pay: We pay 25 cents a word for the first 5,000 words, 15 cents a word for the next 5,000, and 10 cents a word after that. You can send your novel to our corporate cousins at Tor Books, as long as you follow their submissions guidelines. Novels and Serializations: Sorry, we don’t publish novels or serializations. Well, unless you’ve won a bunch of major awards or are some kind of bestseller. We will consider stories that are slightly longer than 12k, but we really must put our foot down at the “novelette” mark-in other words, we will not read anything over 17,500 words. We’re particularly interested in stories under 12,000 words. This includes but is not limited to writers of any race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, class, and ability, as well as characters and settings that reflect these experiences. We want our stories to represent the full diversity of speculative fiction, and encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented populations. We define “speculative fiction” broadly, including SF, fantasy, horror, alternate history, and related genres.

What we’re looking for: Tor.com welcomes original speculative fiction short stories and poetry. Tor.com is a short fiction market edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky, Ann VanderMeer, Ellen Datlow, and Carl Engle-Laird, with support and reading from Cory Skerry, Bridget Smith, Effie Seiberg, and occasional others. This week really is all about opportunity, so we’ve decided to bring you three submission opportunities on the trot – good luck!

National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.

Tor publishing submissions