Spring 2025 Open Submissions
Ends on
2025 Call for Submissions
What We’re Looking For
Lanternfish Press is seeking gothic and speculative fiction that pushes genre boundaries, dark historical fiction, and magical realism.
We are also interested in intersectional memoir. We enjoy delicious language, weird protagonists, a strong sense of place, and great worldbuilding. We look for writing that transcends borders, making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. The best way to get a sense of what we're after is to get to know our catalog.
We would love to see more writing by and about migrants and refugees, whether fiction or memoir.
Novella manuscripts should fall between 20-40k words and novel manuscripts between 60-90k. Memoirs may be submitted at any length between 20-90k words.
How to Submit
Please submit full manuscript in .docx form through our Submittable portal, along with a cover letter and short bio. Please use standard manuscript formatting (see William Shunn's Modern Manuscript Format reference page for details).
Only one manuscript per author during the open subs period, please. Additional manuscripts from the same author will not be considered. Revised versions of manuscripts submitted earlier in the window will not be considered either, so make sure the version you submit first is the one you are committed to.
We encourage simultaneous submissions. If you receive an offer from another publisher, however, please notify us promptly.
We are a small staff, and our reading process can be slow. Our sincere apologies for this. If you have not received a response within six months of submission, you can assume that your work is no longer under consideration.