New Myths has two submission periods every year:

• Winter: January 1-February 28 

• Summer: June 1-July 31

Submissions received outside the submission periods won't be read and will be deleted.

Artwork, book reviews, requests for book reviews, and other correspondence can be submitted year-round. 

NewMyths.com currently pays 3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. 

We purchase book reviews for $50 and artwork for $80.

Payment is upon publication. 

NewMyths publishes only original book reviews. No reprints, please.

Reviews should be 500-1,000 words. We prefer reviews of novels published within the past year, but also consider reviews of older works, poetry collections, anthologies, and nonfiction works related to fantasy and science fiction. Pay is $50.

Send inquiries to Candy at editor@newmyths.com.

Book Review Request

NewMyths publishes several book reviews per year, and we’d like to publish more. Unfortunately, with several thousand submissions per year, our hardworking editors don’t have a lot of time to review novels. 

If you are an author, agent, or publisher and have a novel or other work related to fantasy and science fiction that you would like to have reviewed, send an inquiry to Scott at admin@newmyths.com. If you don’t receive an answer, please assume that we simply don’t have the staff to review it. A solution might be to find someone who can write a review and submit it to us for consideration.

Both human-only and AI-generated work are now welcome

If we could detect AI-generated content with 100% accuracy, we would not allow it. But since that is not the case....

NewMyths will accept AI-generated content if you label it as such. Please use the honor system. If you used an AI tool to create a draft of your work, no matter how many times you rewrote it, please label it as an AI-generated story. NewMyths will attach the "AI-generated" label to the published story.

Other uses of AI, such as for generating ideas or spell checking, need not be flagged.

Copyright and AI

This is still being worked out by the courts. NewMyths reserves the right to remove any content from its archives if such content comes under a copyright dispute.

AI Creators Contest—Fall 2023

NewMyths will run a Homo sapien-only versus AI-generated contest in our Fall 2023 issue. Readers will vote on their favorite stories and poems. The top three vote-getters will receive one, two, or three of our original ebook anthologies, respectively, in addition to standard pay rates.

After the contest ends, the AI-generated stories will be revealed. Look for details in the Fall 2023 issue….

Spot the Bot Contest—Winter 2023-24

In our Winter 2023-24 issue (release date Dec 15, 2023), readers who correctly identify all the stories or poems generated by AI will receive a free ebook copy of our first three anthologies: Passages, Twilight Worlds, and Neosapiens.

Look for details in the Winter 2023 issue…. 

NewMyths.com requires authors to accept a written contract. The magazine acquires first publication rights only (we are not interested in stories that have already been published elsewhere). Authors retain their copyright on all works after first publication on the NewMyths.com website. The contract is for a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right and license to digitally archive and display the content (aka Digital Archive Rights). There may be terms related to anthologies and other matters which change from time-to-time. Please read the contract carefully before accepting it.

Simultaneous Submissions: No problem. We ask that you please indicate in your submission that your story is a simultaneous submission, and notify us as soon as possible if it has been accepted by another publication.

Responses to your submissions may take as long as six months. Feel free to send a follow-up email query if you have not received a reply before the next submission period.

Your Personal Information: We save personal information and email addresses for the sole purpose of administering content submissions, administering payments, sending notice when a new issue is online, or another NewMyths.com publication will be released. If you do not want to be notified, please let us know. This personal information and email addresses will never be sold or shared with any other organization.

Please direct all queries to editor@newmyths.com