Guidelines
General Guidelines
All submissions must be made through our Submission Form
We allow simultaneous submissions; No multiple submissions or re-submissions.
We are looking for First World publishing rights, so please do not send us works already published on the web or elsewhere.
Submission Genre
We are looking for Speculative Fiction stories and poetry, which is a broadly defined category and includes Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Obscure and other slipstream genres. While sexual themes are not frowned upon, kindly refrain from sending us hard erotica or gore. Apart from book reviews or interviews, we are quite liberal in the form of non-fiction entries we receive.
Submission Length
Fiction / Non-Fiction : up to 10000 words
Times New Roman, 12 pt
Double spaced
Poetry: up to 3 pages
Times New Roman, 12 pt
Single spaced
Response Time
We usually respond within 4 weeks. Please follow up with us at editor@stateofmatter.in in case you haven’t heard back from us.
In case of withdrawals, please send us an email to the above address stating the reason.