You cannot have a contract with another publisher on work you’re
submitting to Diana Kay Publishing. If the work has been previously published, we will only accept it if the rights have reverted
to you. Unless otherwise agreed upon, Diana Kay Publishing retains One Time Print rights as part of our quartly print and online magazine.
All rights revert to the authors on publication. We publish most genres and cross-genres of fiction. New authors welcome. All
submissions must be in English. We strongly prefer 3rd person past tense POV. These genres and cross-genres welcome:
- Action/Adventure
- Crime
- Fantasy
- Historical
- Inspirational
- Mainstream
- Mystery
- Paranormal
- Romance
- Sci Fi
- Suspense
- Thriller
- Western
- Young Adult
Guaranteed rejections:
Fan fiction, Flash fiction, Erotica/Romantica, Pornography, works promoting hatred of any kind, violence or
profanity not pertinent to the story line, imitations of any kind (Roberts, Tolkien, King), unimaginative plots, chatty
dialogue (dialogue without purpose), flat characters, poorly written stories oozing with grammatical and spelling errors
will be rejected for that reason alone.
All communications will be made via email.
To submit your short story,
include the following in the body of an email:
- Your name
- Pseudonym, if applicable
- Title
- Genre
- Word length
- This story Has/Has Not been previously published (self, print, or e-published)?
- Copy and paste the entire short story in the body of the email
Click the link to send to us: Diana Kay Submissions
Subject line should include the following:
Genre Word Length Title (For example: a western story 4500 words titled Fastest Gun will have… Western
4500 Fastest Gun …in the subject line of the email.)
We are interested in poetry as well.
All poetry submission must be
previously unpublished. We want to feel inspired by your poem. Make us love, laugh, cry, hurt…feel! Maximum 50 lines.
Traditional, Sonnet, Free Verse, Haiku, or Surprise us!
To submit your poem,
include the following in the body of an email:
- Your name
- Pseudonym, if applicable
- Title
- Style
- Number of lines
- This poem Has/Has Not been previously published (self, print, or e-published)?
- Copy and paste the poem in the body of the email
Click the link to send to us: Diana Kay Submissions
Subject line should include the following:
Poem Style Line Length Title (For example: a 16 line free verse poem titled Shades of
Autumn will have… Free Verse 16 lines Shades of Autumn …in the subject line of the email.)
Response times could vary but should
not exceed 4 to 6 weeks. No simultaneous submissions, please. All stories or poems accepted for publishing by
Diana Kay Publishing will be subject to editing. If you are not open to suggestions and/or recommendations, do not submit.
At this time, we do not have the budget to offer $$ for stories we contract. However,
if we do accept your story or poem, here’s what we will give you…
1. Free 1 year subscription to Diana Kay Publishing Magazine
2. Three (3) free copies of the issue your story/poem appears in
3. A link to your website posted on the home page of DianaKayPublishing.com
Happy writing,
Diana Kay Publishing
