{"id":2595,"date":"2015-10-23T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T23:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:12:47","slug":"sci-fi-romance-quarterly-submission-guidelines-187-for-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/sci-fi-romance-quarterly-submission-guidelines-187-for-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly: Submission Guidelines ($187 for Short Stories)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly accepts submissions of romance short stories in any sci-fi sub genre. They often have a quarterly theme for submissions.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this writing, they are seeking submissions under the theme &#8220;Alien Love.&#8221; The deadline for this theme is May 15th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>They pay 2.5 cents per word, up to 7,500 words. That means a maximum payment of $187.50.<\/p>\n<p>What is science fiction romance? According to their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In a nutshell, it\u2019s a romance that takes place in a technological setting and has an upbeat ending. Some stories have more science fictional elements and some have less, but generally the stories focus on the intersection of technology and romance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their submission guidelines specifically state that they want &#8220;happily ever after&#8221;, or &#8220;happy for now&#8221; stories.<\/p>\n<p>Their submission guidelines also have answers to specific questions, such as the number of spaces they want after the end of a sentence (one), and whether cussing is fine (it is).<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, and to submit, read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiromancequarterly.org\/write-for-us\/\">submission guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly accepts submissions of romance short stories in any sci-fi sub genre. They often have a quarterly theme for submissions. At the time of this writing, they are seeking submissions under the theme &#8220;Alien Love.&#8221; The deadline for this theme is May 15th, 2016. They pay 2.5 cents per word, up to 7,500&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}