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Acceptance Rates: What Are the Odds?

August 26, 2021

Old is New Again: Reprints

July 23, 2021

The Blessed Event, or What to Expect When You’re Accepted

June 22, 2021

Normalizing the No: Rejection Letters

May 20, 2021

An Honorable Retreat: The Withdrawal Letter

April 16, 2021

Ask Away: The Submission Status Query

March 18, 2021

The Long Game: Publisher Response Times

February 16, 2021

Take Two: Simultaneous Submissions

January 19, 2021

The Perfect Page: No-Fret Formatting

December 10, 2020

Who Are You? The Short Author Bio

November 12, 2020

First Contact: Cover Letters

October 5, 2020

The Quest for the Perfect Publisher

September 8, 2020

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Dark Matter Magazine aims to bring you stories that explore the shadow side of reality. This does not mean that we prefer gratuitous sex and violence, or that the story must be cynical or misanthropic. Even stories of hope and optimism can arrive at their theses after first taking us on a journey through the most downtrodden fringes of society, or the deepest reaches of space, or the darkest corners of the mind. But stories don’t always have happy endings either.

We prefer to publish stories reminiscent of science fiction and horror heavyweights like Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Crichton, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Robert Heinlein, Shirley Jackson, M.R. James, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Sheckley, Mary Shelley, Dan Simmons, Neal Stephenson, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells, to name a few. If you count these legendary writers among your inspirations, submit your story today. We’d love to give it a read.

For writers that use humor to explore the dark side of things, look to authors like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Kurt Vonnegut for examples of what we’d like to see.

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