The Plott Hound Pack is making final selections for issue 05. If you haven't heard back about your submission from the March window by Monday (4/14), please query us. Moksha can make fools of us all.
Our issue 04 cover art is Nilak Frostbeak designed by @elbenherzart.bsky.social!
We're mighty in love with the art they create.
www.christinakraus-art.com
I see a cool owl and I click it 😋
Contract signed, sealed, delivered—my flash piece "Clementine grows into a tree" will be appearing in the spring edition of @plotthoundmag.bsky.social ! This is one of my favorite pieces I've written, and I'm so excited Plott Hound will be a home for another piece so dear to my heart!
Check out @madbrake.bsky.social's etsy shop!
The piece is called Autumn: The Season of Decay:
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Pinging our EIC @thaisibir.bsky.social in case she wants to speak on this, too.
Thinking about how the barn swallows will be returning soon as spring draws closer... and the protagonist of this story of mine is a barn swallow!
Fun fundraiser perk from Locus Magazine!
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Time for us to breathe deep, hitch up our britches, and get through the submission pile.
Thank you to everyone who submitted!
Hey all, to clarify, the Plott Hound pack is based off of Mountain Time, so we close at 2 am Eastern / 1 am Central / Midnight Mountain / 11 pm Pacific.
If you're a night owl racing towards the finish line, don't miss it!
Last day to submit your work for Issue 5 of Plott Hound Magazine!
If you have a brilliant short story, flash fiction, essay, or poem that's right up our alley, today's the day to send it our way.
plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...
Heads up: we've had multiple originals sent to the reprint category on Moksha. Please read the categories and choose the appropriate one. It makes everything a little easier for our sorting paws. Thanks!
As in, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck and hold a magic wand or owns a spaceship, that'd be grand!
Please make sure your story, essay, or poem is BOTH speculative (science fiction, fantasy, or horror) AND animal (deeply set in the point of view of an animal, magical creature, animalistic alien, monster dinosaur, etc.).
plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...
The deadline to submit to Plott Hound Magazine for Issue 5 is rapidly approaching. And by rapidly, we mean tomorrow.
We love finding gems in the submissions pile, so if you have something animal-tastic to polish and send, please consider submitting before we close tomorrow.
We're always on the lookout for fantastic new art for our magazine!
Artists interested in submitting should take a look at previous issues and if your work might be a good fit, email us the url of their online portfolio. Read full guidelines here:
plotthoundmag.com/submission-g...
It was a pleasure to write this essay as India's dogs became the centre of judicial & civic debates. I hope you will enjoy this exploration of their mythic stature & personal bonds 💛
#essays #dogs #nonfiction
Yay, thank you!
A gorgeous magazine inside & out though I do say so myself.
#essays #nonfiction
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Horror Short Stories feat. @interzone.press @bulletpoints.bsky.social @scifansat.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com
We're open to submissions until March 15th!
Speaking of cats (as we are wont to do), "The Cemetery Cat" by @rcarterhall.bsky.social is now free and available to read online. It begins with the ghost of a car-killed cat and grows into a hauntingly beautiful tale.
We love it's ghostly whiskers, and we hope you will, too!
While the core of Plott Hound Magazine will always be fiction, we also publish an essay with every issue, and we're sure proud of them. Our essays from Issues 1-3 are all free and available to read online:
Void Whales singing, each to you, each to me. There's something eerie and haunting and otherworldly about "Choir of the Void" by Ayesha Mansoor.
We love this poem, and we hope you will, too!
We love our submissions editors and all the work they do. They help paw through our submissions every season and find delightful stories, including a bevy of flash fiction. Flash Fiction for Issue 1-3 are free and available to read online:
If you're looking for a gut punch, give "Soft Underbelly" by Autumn Bettinger a read. It's meaty and thick with fox, hedgehog, and owl delights.
We love it, and we hope you will, too!
Hankering for some good poetry? Our poetry editor has sniffed out some beautiful poems, which you can find here:
We love essays that bring poetic luxury to powerful prose. "The Keys to Heaven's Gates" by @skendhasingh.bsky.social does just that. Take a minute and give it a read.
We love it, and we hope you will, too!
Looking to read more short stories?
Well you're in luck, because Plott Hound Magazine has a packful of them free to read online!
Another BCS cat story: "Shadowdrop" by @librariangoblin.bsky.social. The narrator is "I, Shadowdrop, most magnificently tragic of black cats," and they must save the city of Archaeopolis from malefactors. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/shad...