Fiction submissions for Shattered Lanterns are currently CLOSED!
Please read the following sections carefully so you know what you’re getting into before you submit work to us.
If anything in this form is unclear, please, please reach out! See our Contact page, or email cjs at artemisiapress ca.
Dates
- Shattered Lanterns Vol 1 Issue 3 is set to release August 1 2026.
- Submissions are closed!
What and Who we’re looking for
- We will be publishing 7 stories per issue.
- Shattered Lanterns is dedicated to weird tales and horror. See The horrors we pursue for more details.
- Short fiction less than 2000 words. We’ve been known to accept longer works if we like you. Formal experimentation is strongly encouraged.
- We’re not, nor will we ever be, a commercially motivated house. We want stuff that’s meaningful, impactful, playful, ugly, and/or just plain out there!
- Our preference is writers from the Ottawa area and central Ontario, Canada, but don’t hesitate to send us work if you’re abroad!
The horrors we pursue
We like most horror! Cosmic, occult, body, splatterpunk, literary, queer, folk, eco, techno, erotic, corporate, comedic, philosophical, existential, fringe, experimental. Horror at the margins. Horror that genre sticklers might not call horror. We like being surprised!
Caveat: Think very hard before you send us anything that could be considered transgressive. We will be more severe in our assessment of works that fall into this category.
AI Policy
NO AI. It’s frustrating that we even need this heading.
Response Time
All (yes all) submissions will be responded to by the end of the week following the submission deadline.
Feedback
We provide no feedback on rejected submissions—we simply don’t have the time.
All submissions are subject to basic copy editing. We may be more thorough if we like the piece enough to accept it but think it could use more cleaning up. The author has the right to veto any edits (within reason). All submissions will receive final approval of the author before printing (time permitting).
Submission Fee
Submission is free!
Pay Rate
We’re offering $20 CAD for each work on final approval for a print run of up to 40 numbered copies. Authors are paid cumulatively for successive editions if we decide to print them.
Authors are entitled to one complimentary copy of the zine and three additional copies at a discounted rate.
Author’s Rights
- Authors maintain all ownership rights to their submission.
- This includes digital rights! We will never digitally publish any submitted stories, because the internet is just a big theft machine now.
- Authors are free to submit their work anywhere else.
- If the work is accepted, we would appreciate if the author acknowledge that the work was printed with us first!
Questions? Form didn’t work?
Go to the Contact page and let us know what went wrong! And if that form’s busted, then just send an email to cjs at artemisiapress dot ca.