Vera Brook

My goal for this Write-a-Thon is to make progress on my current writing projects. That's all. These projects include my neuroscience-inspired thriller and a handful of short stories, since I always juggle multiple manuscripts. Anything counts: words added to the manuscript, notes in a notebook, tweaks to an outline.

In addition, every day, I will feature a different speculative short fiction magazine, with links to their website and to their listing on the Submission Grinder. 

Thank you for your interest & support, and best of luck with your own writing goals!

Since my writing progress is so scattered this summer, here is a list of amazing speculative short fiction magazines instead, one for each day of the Write-a-Thon.

Best of luck with your writing & with all your submissions!

• Translunar Traveler’s Lounge (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Metaphorosis (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Bourbon Penn (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Flash Fiction Online (Submission Grinder listing here)
• After Dinner Conversation (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Solarpunk Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Etherea Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Dread Machine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Radon Journal (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Fusion Fragment (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Cossmass Infinities (Submission Grinder listing here)
• The Colored Lens (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Utopia Science Fiction (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Mysterion (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Proton Reader (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Hexagon (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Aurealis (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Neon (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Electric Spec (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Assemble Artifacts Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Little Blue Marble (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Mermaids Monthly (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Kaleidotrope (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Augur Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• The Future Fire (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Medusa Tales (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Factor Four Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Abyss & Apex (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Orion’s Belt (Submission Grinder listing here)
• The Dark (Submission Grinder listing here)
• HyphenPunk (Submission Grinder listing here)
• The Deadlands (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Metastellar (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Diabolical Plots (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Reckoning (Submission Grinder listing here)
• The Fifth Di… (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Dark Matter Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Andromeda Spaceways (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Zooscape (Submission Grinder listing here)
• Three-Lobed Burning Eye (Submission Grinder listing here)

“How To Keep Your Cool If You’re A Mech First Day On The Job” (2022)

• Science fiction (8,800 words)
• First published in The Colored Lens (Spring 2022)

“The Kiss” (2021)

• Paranormal love story (11,500 words)

“Music Therapy” (2021)

• Science fiction (9950 words)
• First published in Aphelion (November 2021)

“Of Bugs, Debts, and Distant Planets” (2021)

• Science fiction (995 words)
• First published in Fifth Di… (June 2021)
• Reprinted in Cast of Wonders (forthcoming)

“Mira” (2021)

• Science fiction/ biopunk (1350 words)
• First published in Hyphen Punk (June 16, 2021)

For complete bibliography, see Vera's website.