HEXFILED SF Magazine

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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HEXFILED SF Magazine is an independent publication focused on science fiction and speculative fiction exploring the boundary between organism and machine, with a preference for strange, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant work.

Response time info: ≤14 days

Read the full guidelines at hexfiled.com↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorror

Short Fiction: 1,000–10,000 words; Novelette: 10,001–17,500 words. Science fiction and speculative fiction that bridges organism and machine, including biological SF, ecological futures, post-human consciousness, weird and slipstream fiction, military SF, and stories with thoughtfully imagined scien

flashScience FictionFantasyHorror

Flash Fiction: under 1,000 words. Science fiction and speculative fiction as above.

nonfictionScience FictionFantasyHorror

Speculative Nonfiction & Creative Essays: 500–5,000 words. Essays must engage with the magazine’s themes (biological, artificial, speculative) as genuine intellectual inquiry. Hybrid and lyric forms welcome.

otherScience FictionFantasyHorror

The Parallel Biome: 1,000–3,000 words. Archival artifacts from alternate or parallel timelines (field reports, intercepted transmissions, technical schematics, etc.). Must read like recovered documentation, not traditional narrative fiction. Visual elements encouraged.

poetryScience FictionFantasyHorror

Speculative Poetry: any length; up to 5 poems per submission. Must be speculative in nature.

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