Fiction
Rock and a Hard Place Magazine
Closed
- Length
- 2,000 to 5,000 words
- Pay
- 35.00 USD flat
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Not stated
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Rock and a Hard Place Magazine is a cross-genre magazine publishing fiction about marginalized, poor, depressed, and desperate people, with stories between 2,000 and 5,000 words. The page states the magazine is currently closed for submissions and that reprints are no longer accepted. It pays $35 for stories between 2,000 and 5,000 words.
Other / not listedNoir
- AI policy
- Stories written by AI or language modeling software are instantly rejected, and the submitter is banned for life from RHP open calls.
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