Length & Format<\/strong> <\/p>\n The Colored Lens has begun using GoogleForms for submissions as we believe that will be the easiest for our authors. When signing up, please do not use a Yahoo email address if you have another alternative one. We routinely have problems sending mail to Yahoo addresses. Please submit to us using our Google Form<\/a>. You should receive a response within a few days. If you have not heard back from us within a week, please check your spam folder. If you can’t find anything, please query by emailing dawn@thecoloredlens.com . Put “QUERY” and the title and submission date in the subject of your email.<\/p>\n Short stories should be in standard manuscript format<\/a>, and submitted using our online submission system<\/a>. Please upload your story as a doc, docx, or rtf file. If you can not use one of these formats, you can copy\/paste your story into the field on the submission page, but this is not the easiest format for us to read.<\/p>\n We do not accept simultaneous submissions, multiple submissions or reprints. <\/p>\n We do not accept stories written by an AI system of any type. This is not to say that authors cannot use AI for generating writing prompts, ideas, to check grammar, etc. The story itself should be human authored. The Colored Lens does, and always has, reserve the right to reject any story for any reason including but not limited to plot or lack thereof, writing style, or any other reason that we feel makes the work unsuitable for our publication.<\/P><\/p>\n Please do not submit more than 5 stories within a 30 day period. View submission statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your site doesn’t look right. Some fields are missing, the layout is messed up, and I’m having trouble registering and\/or submitting my story. What’s going on?<\/strong> I don\u2019t have a gmail account. Can I just email you my story?<\/strong> <\/p>\n We are accepting artwork within a speculative fiction element and that casts the world, either the real one or a fantastical one, in a different light than we see every day.<\/p>\n Artwork should be submitted in digital format. Artists may submit up to 3 pieces at once, but please wait for a response from us before sending more.<\/p>\n Artwork may be resized, but will not be cropped or otherwise altered without the artist\u2019s permission. Please send us artwork that will still look good when resized or reformatted. Artwork may be submitted using our Google Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n We pay $20 per short story, article, or piece of artwork, and $10 for flash. For novellas, we pay $20 for the first 10,000 words, and $1 per 1000 words after that. Unless otherwise specified, purchases are for first world electronic and print rights, exclusive for 3 months, and non-exclusive reprint rights. Payments will be made upon publication.<\/p>\n Acceptance of a submission does not guarantee a publication date. Payments will be made prior to publication through Paypal exclusively.<\/b> If you are located in a country that is unable to use Paypal, please let us know upon acceptance so that we can set up alternative payment methods. For a list of all countries that are able to receive Paypal payments, you can click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fiction The Colored Lens was created to showcase stories that shift our perspective on the world, through the far-reaching genre of speculative fiction. However, the fundamentals of good storytelling always come first: stories with characters we enjoy reading about and a solid plot. As long as your story includes them, we’d love to read it. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137752"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140225,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137752\/revisions\/140225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloredlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIt is significantly easier for us if you submit through our submission form. You shouldn’t need a gmail account, but if you don’t have one, it is free and easy to create one. If you cannot create one, please email dawn@thecoloredlens.com to query to ask about alternative methods of sending. Be aware that stories sent via other methods will be processed much more slowly. <\/p>\nArtwork<\/h2>\n
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