New World Journal

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New World Journal publishes fiction and nonfiction centered on immersive worlds, physical journeys, meaningful questions, and cinematic imagination, with major print volumes released bi-annually.

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorLiteraryMysteryRomanceHumorPays: $150 USD for accepted short fiction; $50 flat honorarium for very short fiction; novella compensation is determined case by case.

Submissions are open for Volume I: The Stars. Send novellas of 15,000–30,000 words, short fiction of 3,000–8,000 words, or very short fiction of 500–3,000 words. The theme should be integral and may involve astronomy, navigation, celestial mythology, expeditions, spaceflight, darkness, remote landscapes, or meaningful encounters with the night sky. Setting must be essential; realistic, historical, speculative, mythic, and other genres are welcome. Select reprints may be considered for the inaugural volume.

nonfictionLiteraryPays: $150 USD for accepted nonfiction.

Submissions are open for Volume I: The Stars. Send creative nonfiction or essays of 3,000–8,000 words. The theme should be integral, with interest in exploration, travel, unusual cultural or moral worlds, history, myth, discovery, science, spiritual encounter, journalism or reportage from the field, and other meaningful encounters with the world and night sky.

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