Three recent graduates of Clarion West Writers’ Workshop are launching Brain Harvest, subtitled “An Almanac of Bad-Ass Speculative Fiction”. They plan to debut the online fiction magazine in March, and start reading submissions on 15 February.
Editors Caren Gussoff, Shane Hoverston, and Eden Robins write that Brain Harvest “is the creation of a brooding Minnesotan neuroscientist, a zombie-obsessed sexpert, and the ex-burlesque dancing Jewish mother you never knew you wanted. We all write and read speculative fiction, and we share a dream: to deliver whiz-bang spec fic you can swallow in a mouthful, but that outlives all of us. Brain Harvest will publish electronically and can be read right here, or dispatched to your iPhone, Blackberry, or whatever other mobile device—and maybe, one day, straight into your brain.”
When they open for submissions (and they promise to delete unread any received before 15 February), they’ll be looking for, in short “750 or fewer words. Weird. Surprising. Preferable no elves.” In more detail, well, they have their submission guidelines available on this page. They’re looking for “bad-ass” short-short fiction, and paying 5 cents per word (less for reprints).