Submissions to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine…

SUBMISSIONS WILL NEVER BE OPEN… SORRY.

Just not happening. I am a writer first.

However, as we were going monthly with the magazine, I started trying to figure out a way to get writers who had read the magazine and knew what kind of fiction was in Pulphouse a way to submit stories at times. Not sure who suggested to do it as part of the stretch goals, but that was a great idea. If you backed the Kickstarter, it meant you had a subscription and could read the stories.

And every month from each stretch goal hit  I could get a new theme for writers to try to write Pulphouse stories to through the Kickstarter Update system.

Of course both that year and this year I have gotten letters from the “entitled” “my shit doesn’t stink” writers who think they should be able to send me a story without supporting the magazine or even knowing what I am publishing. Pay to play they call it and won’t ever send me anything.

My response (I never actually write them back) is good. You won’t waste my time.

Getting a six issue subscription to a magazine you are trying to hit as a writer is not expensive, and maybe by reading some of the stories you will learn something. This last fall and winter I read some really good stories, well-written, that when I got done my question simply was, “Did you (the author) even read the magazine?” (I never send that back in a response either, but wow do I think it.)

Now, I need 120 stories to fill a year’s worth of the magazine. 12 issues. I could do that easily just by asking my top writer friends and also finding stories from writers in Year’s Best collections and things like that. But I honestly like doing it this way.

So I hope you will back our Subscription Drive going on right now. And if you are a backer and a writer, follow my guidelines at the first of each month to send me a story. But please, before you do so, read some issues of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. Read stories from Robert Jeschoneck, Rob Vagle, David H. Hendrickson, Annie Reed, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.  That will give you a sense of the high quality and strangeness that you have to try to attain.

Regular old stories just don’t make it into Pulphouse. But you will never know if you have written a Pulphouse story or not unless you send it to me, and the only way you can send me stories this coming fall is support the Kickstarter going on now.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2025