Starspun Lit
Open now for fiction.
Last updatedStarspun Lit is a magazine publishing fantasy and science fiction stories for children and young adults, with a focus on secondary-world adventure and emotional or light-hearted themes.
Response time info: a couple of weeks to a month
Read the full guidelines at starspunlit.org↗Submission calls
General submissions: Fantasy stories for kids and young adults (ages 6-16), up to 5,000 words (under 3,500 preferred), must be set in a different world (no urban fantasy except rare exceptions), no extreme swearing, excessive violence, or sex; dark fantasy is a hard sell; stories revolving around de
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