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Canadian quarterly speculative fiction semiprozine ⬣ Publishing the weird, wondrous, and whimsical ⬣ #BLM *SUBS CLOSED*

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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 month
Hexagon Issue 17 is now available on our website! 🌱⛴️ The issue features eco-rebellion short stories from @lamotdite , @alisterscriven , @ChrisRMuscato , @derangedmilk , and @the_sour_potato . Cover art by @Will_Tempest . Edited by JW Stebner. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
Lit mag thread! 🧡 If your lit mag is currently open for submissions, comment a quick description of what you're looking for and deadlines (if they exist) below! Let's make a thread so that writers can easily find a whole list of lit mags to submit to today!
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
Yes. We are open to submissions. Yes. We are looking for stories and poems about the natural world (insects, fungus, dinosaurs, etc.) Yes. We do have nearly an empty inbox. Yes. Our next issue comes out on Tuesday. Anything else you need to know? 🥰
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Small presses and lit mags are not here to swindle you. Editors put in a ridiculous amount of hours, usually unpaid, to publish your work. Often, the payments that they give are coming from the editors own pockets. We do it because we love it! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
11 months
It is true that we are now open for submissions of 1-10,000 word short stories and 1-5 page comics until September 7th. It is true that we pay $0.01 CAD/word for short stories and $100 CAD/page for comics. It is true that we want to see your work in our inbox. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
Submissions reopen tomorrow! Wish List has been updated with even more detailed desires! 🧡 Including: -Space Pirates 🏴‍☠️ -Secret Societies 🍸 -Star-crossed Lovers 💔 -Crumbling Mega-cities 🌃 -Ancient Magic ✨ and more!
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
I am incredibly proud to announce that beginning with Issue 10, Hexagon will now be paying its contributors 0.01$ per word for short stories! This is an unbelievable milestone for the magazine, and I can’t wait to keep bringing you great speculative fiction! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Y’all, the time has come. Hexagon has grown to a point where I am finding the workload unmanageable on my own. I am therefore looking to bring a first reader onto my team. 🧡 I am looking for a passionate reader of a wide variety of speculative fiction. More information below!
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Hexagon SF Magazine
27 days
Hexagon’s next submission period is under two weeks away! 🧡 Here’s what we’re looking for: 🦑 Eldritch Horror ⏳ Time 🪳 New Weird 🏚️ Haunted or cursed places 🦠 Viruses ☄️ Meteors, asteroids, and falling stars 🚫 Anti-corporation 🌪️ Natural disaster 👨‍🚀 Speculative employment
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
When submissions reopen in two days, these are some themes and topics which we are searching for. 🧡 -Organ/consciousness transplants 🫀 -Haunted/cursed items 🧸 -The permanence of plastic 🧴 -Pirates 🏴‍☠️
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Hexagon SF Magazine
12 days
Submissions are open until July 7th! 🧡 We are specifically on the hunt for: 🦑 Eldritch Horror 🪳 New Weird 🏚️ Haunted or cursed places 🚫 Anti-corporation 👨‍🚀 Speculative employment 🧛🏻 Vampires on alternative diets
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Please do not take free SFF magazines for granted! Free magazines are free because readers are supporting them. Hexagon has published 12 issues for free. If you have ever read an issue or particularly enjoyed a story, consider supporting the mag so that it can continue! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon is open for 1-10,000 word submissions until May 7th! 🌷 I’m really looking to feel the genre this reading period! If you’re sending Sword and Planet, send me unapologetic SWORD AND PLANET. Let’s get a little crazy with the genres we love. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon submissions open in two weeks! 🧡 Along with the usual wish list, I would love to read about: -Punk Vampires 🎸 -Strange Megafauna 🦏 -Memory Implants 💾 -Ruined Cities 🏚️ -Frozen Wastelands 🧊 -Curses and Prophecies 📜 Usual wish list here:
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
Hexagon submissions will be open for all of November! Here is a sneak peek at what I will be looking for… Urban Fantasy 🌃 Sword and Sorcery ⚔️ Climate Fiction ☀️ Eldritch Creatures 🦑 Secret Societies 🥂 Retrofuturistic Metropolises 💾 Mad Scientists 🧪 Full list below! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 months
Hexagon will be opening for submissions in less than a week! We are looking for genre-blending! We want sci-fi cosmic horror and science-fantasy and modern epics and time-travelling knights and gothic humour and so much more! Got a story that doesn’t fit one genre? Send it! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
11 months
We’re two weeks away from submissions opening at Hexagon Magazine! Here’s a taste of what we’re looking for this go around: -Anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment 🏴‍☠️ -Punks, anarchists, and resistance fighters 🎸 -Norse Mythology 🌳 -Historical Fiction 📜 More 👇🏼
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Support paying lit mags. The best way they can grow is with reader support. If you like what they’re doing, consider supporting them financially (if you can). A lot of mag editors get paid in exposure, which does not fly in a lot of other artistic spaces. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
I honestly didn’t think I would be rejecting so many stories that I liked when I became a lit mag editor. It’s a serious kick in teeth and sometimes I think about rejections I sent for days afterwards. Please support Hexagon so I can publish more of these amazing stories! 💔
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Hexagon SF Magazine
7 months
New year, new wish list! 🧡 Hexagon is open for submissions of 1-10,000 word short stories and 1-5 page comics from January 1st to January 7th. We are looking for: 🚀 Raygun Gothic 🦟 New Weird 📻 Rebellion 🪼 Jellyfish 🌙 Lunarpunk 💾 Memory 🎈 Hot Air Balloons 🦕 Dinosaurs
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
I know you’re likely tired of hearing this, but I am looking for a longer short story (3,500-7,500 words) with themes of nature’s revenge and/or mistakes and follies of genetic engineering. I apologize for being a pain, but Issue 9 has a very particular gap to fill. 🧡🧬
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
To be honest, I am looking for 1-2 urban fantasy pieces to round out my winter issue. But, my submissions are now flooded (I received 50 submissions yesterday) with outside-of-guideline submissions. If you wish to submit an urban fantasy piece and want it to be seen immediately..
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Hexagon SF Magazine
11 months
Just raised our pay rates for comics to $100/page. Yes, we are looking for short comics/back-ups of 1-5 pages! Send in your work or pitch an idea! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Inbox is nearly empty! Time to flood it! We’re looking for speculative fiction stories about the natural world as well as stories about sand, the heat, and the desert. 🔥🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
11 months
Hexagon opens for submissions in three days. We are looking for short stories/novelettes of 1-10,000 words and short comics of 1-5 pages. Speculative fiction is the name of the game. We want new weird, indigenous futurism, space-wuxia, gothic horror, and all the others! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
Hexagon submissions reopen next week! Take a look at the updated Wish List and Hard Sells on our website to see what we’re looking for! -Romance ❤️ -High Fantasy ⚔️ -FNMI stories 🐺 -Urban Fantasy 🪓 -Adventures in Space 🪐 and much more! Submissions reopen September 1st! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
9 months
We are opening for speculative fiction short story, novelette, and comic submissions on November 1st! 🧡 We’re looking for 1-10,000 word stories and 1-5 page comics. We pay $0.01 CAD per word and $100 CAD per comic page. Find out more here 👇🏼
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Right after I claim that lit mags are not trying to swindle authors... 💔Authors, here’s a few fantastic places to send your work instead: @CrowKeys , @perhappened , @authylem , @kalonopia , @TheBitchinK , @anamorphoseis , @glitchwords , @opialitmag , @SouthchildLit , @FictionUtopia 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Writers, question for you. Do you like when mags have a theme or editor’s wish list to help guide your writing/submitting? Sometimes I’m looking to fill a specific gap and I don’t want to waste your time. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 months
I am hunting for a story that fits with what I’m calling “eco-rebellion” for an upcoming issue. Not solarpunk, with its optimistic view of the future, but a more anarchist genre between now and then. If you have a story that fits that vibe, send it directly to my email. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon Issue 12 TOC! “The Nettle Queens” by Anna Madden @anna_madden_ “Theseus 2.0” by L Chan @lchanwrites “They Come to Return Home” by Elou Carroll @keychild “You Reap What You Sow” by Danny Cherry Jr. @DeeCherryWriter “The Loneliness of Water” by Lyndsey Croal @writerlynds
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
One week until submissions close! 🧡 We are looking for: -Living cities 🌃 -Renegade starships 🚀 -Secret societies 🌂 -Ancient magic ✨ -Crumbling metropolises 🕸 -Artifacts of untold power 📜 and more!
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Hexagon SF Magazine
8 months
Soooo would anyone be interested in a writing gift exchange? Everyone picks a subject and a genre and we put them all in a big random number generator? I’m offering to organize! 🎁
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
It is incorrect to assume that a rejection from a magazine means that you should never submit to them again. If you like the mag, read their guidelines and submit again as soon as it is acceptable to do so! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
Hexagon broke all previous records for site traffic, subscriptions, readership, and submissions in September. We averaged 13 submissions per day! A great month overall for Hexagon. Thank you to everyone for your continued support! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
5 months
Hexagon submissions open tomorrow and close March 7th. A full list of what we’re looking for is up at the other place! 🟦☁️
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Hexagon SF Magazine
10 months
Y’all, we have passed 300 submissions this week, which is insane. Tons of short stories, novelettes, and flash fiction, with some very cool comic pitches. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Editor’s Wishlist for Hexagon Issue 7/Winter 2021 ❄️ -Submarines 🤿 -Relics 📜 -Cephalopods 🐙 -Bioluminescence 🍄 -Galactic 🛰 -Cold 🧊 -Deep Sea/Space 🌊👨🏻‍🚀 -Alternative History 📖 -Biotechnology 🧬 -Forgotten Places ✨
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Yes, we are accepting submissions for issue 5. Yes, this will be our first anniversary Summer 2021 issue. Yes, we are looking for stories about the desert, the sand, and the heat. ⌛️🪲🐍🦎🌵🔥
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Editor’s wishlist for Issue 6 / Fall 2021🍃 -retrofuturism 🎙 -clocks 🕰 -metropolises 🌃 -body horror 🩸 -noir 🕵🏻‍♂️ -hearing aids 🦻🏼 -secret societies 🗝 -curses 🪄 -Art Deco 🪞 -tigers 🐅
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Hexagon SF Magazine
8 months
Hexagon Issue 15 Cover Art and Table of Contents 🧡 ✏️ Cover art by John McGuinness 🗺️ “The Maze of Many Faces” by M.S. Dean 📜 “The Library of Esk” by J.A. Prentice 👑 “The King’s Ending” by Louise Hughes 🧊 “Midgard 1943” by Liv Strom 🐀 “Allies” by Monica Gribouski
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
It is becoming more and more important that artists, writers, editors, and others reject AI and support each other. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
Would it be crazy if a magazine released an issue and opened submissions on the same day? Asking for a friend...
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Hexagon SF Magazine
8 months
We are open for submissions until Nov 7th! 🧡 We are looking for fiction between 1-10,000 words and comics between 1-5 pages. We are looking for: -Taking down tyrants -Historical Fantasy -Self-improvement/personal growth -Frozen wastelands -Norse myth
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon has lost 22% of its funding since last November. Without this funding, projects like our MYRIAD Zines and our Year Three anthology could be in jeopardy. Please subscribe/support if you are able! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
With a recent influx of subscribers looking to get their hands on our incredible Ironwood zine, we are nearing a point of raising our rates to 0.01$ per word. This would be a huge step forward for us! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
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Hexagon Issue 16 cover art and ToC is here! 🐍🥧 “A Mnemosurgeon’s Tale” by Melissa Ridley Elmes “Matter of Taste” by A.D. Sui “The Hole That is You” by Amethyst Loscocco “PARTS” written and illustrated by Dante Luiz “If You Wake” by Avra Margariti Cover art by Yorgos Cotronis.
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
Lit mags that do not send responses for rejections are doing it wrong. Sorry, not sorry 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
Okay, now that we asked authors what might stop them from submitting, let's flip it. Editors, is there anything that writers do that might be a red flag when reading their submission? This is not to berate, but to educate. Let's get all these authors published in 2021! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Because we are closed to submissions, site traffic is low and reading has slowed down. Don’t forget to read the magazines to which you are submitting! We have six wonderful issues to read! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 months
We are now closed for general submissions, but I am still hunting for an “eco-rebellion” story that includes a fight to save Earth and puts people before profit. Eco-action meets the harsh realities of our planet’s man-made decline. 🧵
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
As a solo editor, I read every single piece that is submitted. That doesn’t mean I read them all through. It’s not possible. I don’t have the time in the week to read an average of 245,000 words for my unpaid hobby. Sometimes all a story gets is a page to hook me. Make it count!
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2 years
One of the largest SFF publishers using Moksha (I won't say who) just received 500 submissions over the past 24 hrs. Assuming ~3,500 words per story (a modest estimate), that's ~1.75 million words in one day...🧵 1/
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
How does one get involved in those cool D&D groups full of editors and writers? Asking for a friend who is an editor. It’s me. I’m the editor. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
5 months
Hexagon Issue 16 is now available to all! 🐍🥧 The issue features short stories from @MRidleyElmes , @amethystwrites , @TheSuiWay , and @avramargariti . Also included is a 5 page comic written and illustrated by @dntlz ! Cover art by @ravenkult . 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Our fifth issue will be OVERSIZED to celebrate one whole year of Hexagon! This means we’re looking for 7-9 pieces instead of our usual 5. Get those submissions in! General theme is HEAT, SAND, DESERT, DESOLATION, BARREN, WASTELAND! Surprise us with your interpretation 🧡🌵🔥🦂🪲
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
Besides pay, what are some things that stop you from submitting to a literary magazine?
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
We did it! We went crazy! Issue 8 has been released and submissions are open! We have also raised our rates thanks to the incredible support of our subscribers. 🧡 Follow the link to see our wonderfully DOUBLED rates for prose over 5,000 words 😲
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
We are open! We want the sci-fi/fantasy short comic submissions! We can edit them! Us! We! Hexagon! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
As we approach our January submissions period, be aware that our “Wish List and Hard Sells” page is really “What We’re Accepting and What We Aren’t Accepting,” but just said nicer. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
10 months
How about a newsletter that featured upcoming speculative short fiction releases and submission calls? What else could it include? What else would be helpful…? 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon is open for submissions from March 1-7. I am a little nervous about the AI situation, but we are going ahead with submissions anyway. Take a look at what we are looking for before submitting! Cursed items 🧸 Necromancy 💀 Prophecy 📜 Pirates 🏴‍☠️
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
I know that it is a pain that we do not accept simultaneous submissions and that some authors do not send us work because of it. But, I am a single editor trying my best to keep track of 10+ submissions a day. Please respect the guidelines for the sake of my sanity. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 months
Hexagon is a busy place at the moment! -New issue coming June 1st 🧡 -Currently open for submissions 📚 -Looking for a new team member 🔎 -Will soon be opening MYRIAD guest-editor applications 👀 -Year Four Anthology on the way 🪱 Busy busy busy!
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Hexagon SF Magazine
3 years
Want to get published by Hexagon? Here are some tips: 1. Follow the submission guidelines. 2. Follow the submission guidelines. 3. Follow the submission guidelines. 4. Send well-written stories about the weird, the wondrous, or the whimsical. 5. Send us pictures of bugs. 🧡🪲🐝🦋
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Hexagon SF Magazine
9 months
I am starting to put together a list of speculative short fiction events, submission calls, crowdfunding campaigns, and new releases in November for Hive Mind 1.2. 🐝 If you have any of these happening in November, get in touch at hexagonmagazine @gmail .com for inclusion! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 years
Today is the final day to get submissions in for our Spring 2021 issue. The issue is unthemed, but I am generally looking for submissions that deal with the natural world. This includes dinosaurs, insects, fungus, magic birds, burrowing moles, millennium-old trees, etc. 🧡🪲🦕🍄
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Hexagon SF Magazine
4 months
Now open to submissions, “The Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 1.” Why…? WHY NOT! Submit your previously published (in 2023) stories for consideration before April 2nd! 🐝🦋🕷️🐜🪰🦀🐛🐞
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon submissions open in two days! 🧡 So now, submission wish list reiterated as objects: -Wooden drumstakes 🎸 -Piles of weathered bones 🦏 -Neurodrives 💾 -Vine-covered statues 🏚️ -Snowshoes 🧊 -Crumbling scrolls 📜
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
Hexagon submissions open in two weeks! 🧡 Along with the usual wish list, I would love to read about: -Punk Vampires 🎸 -Strange Megafauna 🦏 -Memory Implants 💾 -Ruined Cities 🏚️ -Frozen Wastelands 🧊 -Curses and Prophecies 📜 Usual wish list here:
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 years
A few big changes coming to Hexagon in 2023. We will no longer be accepting poetry submissions, but we will be opening to novelettes up to 10,000 words. Pay will remain at $0.01 CAD per word. Submission periods will be the first 7 days of every second month. 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
2 months
Hexagon Issue 17 cover art from Will Tempest ( @Will_Tempest ) inspired by James Cato’s ( @the_sour_potato ) “Wonders of a Plastic Ocean.” 🙏 Issue has been released for subscribers and will be released online June 1st. Table of contents below 👇🏼
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
I am recovering on the couch for a week after a surgery today (nothing major, went well!) but please send me pet pics and story recs for a quick recovery! 🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
6 months
Arthropoda is coming February 21st! 🐞🪲🕷️🦀🐛🦐🪰🦋🪳🐝🦂🦞 It is my dream-come-true anthology of 20 speculative short stories and poems centered on the exoskeleton-equipped arthropods which plague our nightmares and pique our curiosity!
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Hexagon SF Magazine
1 year
We received 105 submissions yesterday. This completely destroyed our previous record of 72 submissions in a single day. 🥳🧡
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Hexagon SF Magazine
7 months
Hexagon published 18 short stories, 1 poem, and 1 novelette in 2023. Everything we published is eligible for various awards. Hexagon itself is also eligible for several awards as a Semiprozine. 🧡 View our full 2023 Awards Eligibility list here:
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Hexagon SF Magazine
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Hexagon Issue 15 is here! ❄️ Featuring short stories from M.S. Dean ( @MyrceneDean ), Monica Gribouski ( @oneiroboros ), Louise Hughes ( @timata87 ), J.A. Prentice ( @LivingAuthors ), and Liv Strom ( @LivStromWrites ). With cover art from John McGuinness @mcguinnessjohn . 🧡
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