Submissions Open

Please read our genre guidelines below carefully.

Please note: There is a $4 reading fee. This allows us to maintain the wheels, cogs and levers of running a journal, i.e., website hosting, proofreading, editing and most importantly, pay writers!

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Payments and Rights

We pay upon acceptance, $55 per story and $15 per poem. Authors must be able to receive payment through Paypal.

Upon acceptance, we request first and indefinite archival rights, after which all other rights revert to the author. Please credit Rat ‘n’ Rooster Journal of Speculative Fiction & Poetry as the first publisher if you reprint elsewhere.