Basic Submission Guidelines
* Send your work to submissions@fictioncircus.com.
Advanced Guidelines
* No poetry ever.
* Keep it between about 9,000 words on the upper end and about three words on the lower end. If you think that your two words constitute a story, you are wasting your time and ours, buddy. You are wasting a very small amount of our time.
* Submissions should be sent in MS Word format or just pasted into the text of your email. NO OTHER METHODS ARE ACCEPTABLE.
* Simultaneous submissions are okay, as long as you let us know that your work is being published somewhere else as soon as it's accepted.
* Don't send multiple submissions. One at a time, one at a time.
* We accept fiction submissions on a rolling basis, so we try to respond as quickly as possible to submitted work. Depending on the volume of work we've got at any given time, expect a response one way or another in anywhere from an hour or two to six weeks.
* We like to get first-time publication rights if possible, but if your work is good and you're willing we want it on our site, so send whatever you like. If it's been published somewhere before, just let us know.
* No we can't pay you yet. Tell all your friends about us and we'll see where this highway goes to.
Super Advanced Guidelines
* We like to publish illustrations along with the stories we accept. If we accept you for publication on fictioncircus.com, we'll ask you if you have any illustrations you'd like to use or any illustrators you'd like to use to illustrate your stories. If not, we can do the illustrations ourselves. This is a bridge that we will cross together if we like your work. Do not worry about it now.
* We also like to offer recordings of the stories we publish. Another bridge that we'll cross together, friends.
