[Submissions – Luna Station Quarterly](http://lunastationquarterly.com/submissions/) 500 - 7000 words in length, pays $5 per story, standard manuscript format in RTF, DOC, DOCX or ODT. Get back to you within a month. ## August 15 We encourage you to dig deep, to go beyond the obvious. Set your bird-related somewhere unique in time or space, give it a unique twist, surprise and delight us! As usual, all of our normal submission guidelines apply, just with a bit more feathers this time! ## Yes - Fantasy - Science Fiction - Space Opera - New Fairy Tales (not retellings) - Some creepiness - Stories that explore the nooks and crannies of an original world - Big events from the everyman perspective - Unique settings and storytelling forms - Well written stories with strong characters ## No - Anything biased toward any religion, race or moral preference - Extreme gore or sexual content, in particular no explicit rape or sexual assault. (everything in moderation) - Bizarro fiction - Poetry - Fan Fiction (original stories only, please) - Bad grammar/punctuation (please proofread and watch your sentence structure!) - Plagiarism ## Additional Info Sarah Pauling is @a_pauling on Twitter > Hi everyone! I'm Sarah Pauling (she/her) or @_paulings on Twitter. I've just moved (as in, we got here yesterday!) to Seattle with my husband and 2 kittens from Ann Arbor, MI where I was a study abroad advisor. I love humor, cyberpunk, unusual looks at religion, and queer things. > > I'm also an associate editor for Luna Station Quarterly, which is a lovely but low-volume magazine of SFF by women writers, and I'm really excited to do more slushing and refine my skillset! I've had some short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and other places. Hobbies include tabletop gaming and reading comics in order to complain about them. Looking forward to working with you! She’s in the diabolical Plots slush reader discord.