Fiction
Uncertain Stories
Closes 31 Jan 2027
- Length
- 1,000 to 15,000 words
- Pay
- 0.025 GBP per word
- Fee
- Reading fee 5.00 GBP
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Uncertain Stories, a partner publisher of The Fiction Desk, publishes short stories with a light supernatural or speculative edge in anthologies, and submissions through The Fiction Desk's form are considered for both publishers. Its winter call is open until midnight UK time on January 31, 2027, for stories of 1,000 to 15,000 words; it pays £25 per thousand words plus six printed copies and charges a £5 fee per story.
Other / not listed
- Languages
- English
- Anonymous reading
- Not required
- Query after
- 60 days
- AI policy
- Stories written or translated using AI tools are not accepted, including tools that correct grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation; the submission form and publishing contract require authors to confirm no AI was used.
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