Yesteryear Fiction

What We're Looking For:
*Anything fantasy. Sword, sorcery, myths, folktales, wizards, gold, elves, dwarves, vampires, dungeon crawl drama, dragons, Tolkien-esque fiction, the supernatural, weird tales, ancient civilizations, sky is the limit.

Lengthwise: 4000 words or less. Query on longer pieces (We are interested in running series/chapters of your longer projects! Just let us know!)

Our sweet spot: 1000 words or less (500-800) We really like flash fiction!

Submit as much and as often as you like! :)

Things to consider before sending:
*Proofread it! :)
*Yesteryear Fiction can't take X-rated work or ultraviolence. Send those to Razor Dildo(NSFW) instead. (bloody swordfights and roasting wizards are still okay for Yesteryear!)

Things we like:
Storm Constantine, Tolkien, Alan Campbell, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Neil Gaiman, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Norse Mythology, Native American Mythology, Shamanism, Dungeons and Dragons, Cthulhu, etc. We're not picky, so send it all!


When submitting, please submit your story in the body of an email. Follow this basic format:


Your Story Title
Your Name
Your website (if you have one)
Story’s word count


Would you like to enter this story for consideration in our sister sites:

• Weirdyear (www.weirdyear.com), 
• Farther Stars Than These (www.fartherstars.com) 
• Smashed Cat Magazine (www.smashedcat.com)
  
• Daily Love (www.dailylove.net)
• Linguistic Erosion (www.linguisticerosion.com)
  

Consideration is free and automatic if you say yes. (Yes/No)


Would you like to enter to be featured as an author, writer or poet at Weekly Artist? (Yes, send me details/No thanks)


Then type a little about you, a biography no longer than three lines.

Now insert your story here.

Proofread, then send to yesteryearfiction@gmail.com


NOTE: Corrections and changes to the story made after its acceptance will not be taken. Please make sure the story you send is the story you want on the site.

Here’s the legal stuff: When your story gets accepted, you are giving Yesteryear first electronic publication rights and non-exclusive subsequent publication rights. This means that we get to be the first to publish your story, and then, after it has been put up on the website, we can stick it in a printed book or on a flyer or something like that, as long as we give you credit. We don’t own your story, however– after it appears on the front page of Yesteryear, you are free to sell it for millions of dollars, cut a deal with a movie producer, expand it into a book, enter it into your own or someone else's anthology or anything else all without needing our approval– as long as you remember to tell any potential buyers that they are buying your story as a non-exclusive piece.

In order to avoid complications, we're only accepting work which you previously haven't sold or given away the rights to. That means your work must not have been published elsewhere, either in print or on the web. Please avoid simultaneous submissions. Once accepted, stories will not be removed from the site or the schedule.

We will let you know whether your story is accepted within 3-6 months of submission, (Doutrope says more like 1-2 days) depending on workload. If you haven't heard from Yesteryear in that time, feel free to send us an email and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Sometimes things get caught in our spam filters. It really is nothing personal. :)

In the meantime, spread the word!

Again, by submitting your story to Yesteryear, you acknowledge that if your story is accepted, you are giving the Yesteryear team:

A. The exclusive right to be the first to electronically publish the story (on www.yesteryearfiction.com;)
B. The right to republish the story in or in connection with Yesteryear, including electronic or hard copy promotional material and printed compilations, provided that authorial credit is given in every instance of reproduction.

Compensation:

Credit (your name, your website if you have one, and your short bio) and publication! Whether this is your jumping off point as a writer or a way to get another piece on your resume, Yesteryear offers you a voice, a chance to get your work out there in the hands of readers and be seen!