Serendipity considers only work that incorporates a magical realist ethic. For a definition of what magical realism is not, please see the excellent guide over at Margin.

We are not opposed to considering work that blends a magical realist approach with other genres. For an idea of what we mean by this, please see work such as Jeffrey Ford's The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass and Cosmology of the Wider World, Neil Gaiman's Stardust and the novels of Jonathan Carroll, Russell Hoban and Haruki Murakami.

Submissions

Serendipity is open to submissions from 1-14 of each month, with a reading period from the 15-28, beginning with September 2007. Any stories received outside of the submission period will not be read until those sent within the specified time frame have been read and responded. For a prompt response, it is in a writer's interest to adhere to these submission guides.

Short story submissions should ideally be under 3,000 words, but we will consider anything up to 6,000 words, or longer writing that is written for serialisation (nb such writing must work as self-contained instalments).

We do not wish to receive simultaneous or multiple submissions. In order for us to retain our relatively quick response time we trust you will respect this.

Serendipity is open to submissions of reprints that have appeared or are forthcoming in print, but we will not publish any stories that are currently online. If you have a reprint you think we might be interested in, you should send a query before submitting.

Please use standard manuscript formatting, and include your name, the story's title and your email address in the header of every page. Submissions should be emailed as MS Word document or RTF files, accompanied by a polite cover letter stating story length to readserendipity@gmail.com

Terms of publication

We ask for online exclusivity for six weeks following publication, after which all rights revert to the author. In future we may consider producing a print publication featuring works from the website, but terms for this will be negotiated separately with the author and inclusion on the website does not oblige an author to accept our print terms for publication.

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