Hey everyone!

So meh news/good news. The meh news is that we have to push back the Year 3 launch date to Sept. 29. We’ve had a few illnesses and other setbacks the past month and realized that we were really going to be pushing it to hit Sept. 1. The extra couple weeks will let us make sure everything is in the best shape it can be, and have an uninterrupted year.

The good news is that our contracts are all in, and we can announce the stories we bought during our June submissions period! We received 817 stories from June 1 to 30, and we bought 17: 10 flash and 7 short stories. Genre-wise, there are 6 fantasy stories, 6 horror, 4 sci-fi, and 1 non-genre. We read all our submissions blind, so it wasn’t until I was looking up names to make offers that I discovered that most of the writers were women! Very cool.

Here’s the full list:

All Manner of Men and Monsters by Rebecca M. Latimer
Better Girls From Broken Parts by Nino Cipri
The Boy by Eric Francis
The Cutting Yield by HIllary Jacques
Death’s Garden by Day Al-Mohamed
Mr. Reilly’s Tattoo by Hope Erica Schultz
My Name is Ronald by the Way by Thord Daniel Hedengren
Nobody’s Goddess by Amber D. Sistla
She Waits by Laurel Halbany
Shoelace by Laura Lovic-Lindsay
Testimony by Jennifer Mason-Black
To Fall, and Pause, and Fall by Lisa Nohealani Morton
Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroker by Megan Grey
Twenty Parsecs East of the Earth Bypass, Closed on Sundays by Robert Lowell Russell
Who We Were Once, Who We Will Never Be by Brent Baldwin
The Work by Alexandre Stone
Zanders the Magnificent by Annie Neugebauer

We’ll be opening again to submissions on October 1. We’re mostly full up on short stories for now, so while we’ll still be accepting those to fill the final couple slots for Year 3, we’re really eager to see lots of flash.

Thanks as always!