Editor Matthew Kressel of small press magazine Sybil’s Garage is announcing some changes in his writers’ guidelines. He notes that “many excellent stories we’ve published have not been traditionally plotted and have tended to be atmospheric and what some might label as slipstream. We’re very proud of the stories published in the magazine so far and we wish to continue to publish atmospheric/slipstream stories such as the ones we have in the past, but in the upcoming issue we’d like to publish a few more traditionally plotted stories.”
The new guidelines, available on this page, are explicitly for issue #7, the reading period for which will open on 15 January (don’t send anything before that date). For issue #7, he says “we seek to cast a wider net and encourage contributors to send us both atmospheric/slipstream stories as well as those with traditionally strong plots and characters. We also will look at stories with little or no speculative element, but with speculative tendencies (e.g. weird but not necessarily supernatural.)” As always, there’s a 5,000-word upper limit on fiction, and payment is $20 for stories longer than 2,000 words, $15 for shorter stories.