Lyrica is a quarterly Webzine, published in June, September, December and March.

Our payment rates are as follows:

Short stories: $5.00
Poems: $5.00
Serials: $10 (flat rate)

All payments are in Canadian dollars and will be made via Paypal.

Submissions should be emailed to us as MS Word .rtf or .doc attachments using the link provided at the bottom of the page.

Lyrica will have non-exclusive, One-time Electronic (World Wide Web) Publishing rights to your work for the quarter in which your short story or poem appears. These rights will revert back to you once the story has been published. Copyright remains yours at all times. We request, but do not require, that you allow us to keep your story within our Archive for a period of twelve months following publication. We will, of course, remove it at any time at your request.

WHAT WE WANT

Because Love, Romance and Relationships are not Genre-specific, Lyrica accepts all types of Romantic Fiction from Contemporary to Fantasy. Love on the way to work, Love on a Space Station, Love in the Stone Age, Love on a pirate ship -- If it involves two people in a romantic situation we want to see it.

Short Fiction submissions should be between 1000 & 7500 words in length.

Serials should be between 8000 & 40,000 words in length. All Serials MUST be complete before they will be considered for publication.

Flash Fiction submissions should be between 200 & 1000 words in length.

We do not have a line limit when it comes to Poetry, but we please ask that any poems sent to us have an obvious romantic element to them.

We accept Book/Movie Reviews of any Genre, as well as Feature Articles on topics related to writing or the publishing industry as a whole. We are unable to pay for Feature Articles at this time. Hopefully that will change in the future.

We accept Multiple Submissions, but please ask that you send only one story, and no more than four poems per email.

WHAT WE DON'T WANT

We do not accept Fan Fiction or stories with copyrighted characters.

We do not accept Erotica or stories containing gratuitous sex.

We do not accept Reprints.

We do not accept Simultaneous Submissions.

SUBMISSIONS PROCEDURE

All submissions must be accompanied by an email cover letter which introduces you and your submission. It should include the following:

The Title of your submission.
Your name as you would like it to appear on your submission.
Your real name and a valid email address.
The approximate word/line count of your story or poem.
A link to your webpage, if you have one.
A Brief Author biography that will accompany your story or poem.

We prefer submissions to be in Message Board/Webzine format. Single spaced, with an extra line in between paragraphs.

Please do not use __ to indicate italics, or * to indicate bold. We prefer to see italics and bold the way the author intended them.

Please use "this" to indicate dialogue -- not 'this' -- single quotes are a major pain to change while editing, especially in long stories, or serials. Anything you can do to make our Editorial life easier will be looked upon with favor.

Please send us your BEST work. Submissions should be free of punctuation, grammar and spelling errors. If we have one spot left and two submissions vying for that spot, the cleanest submission will win. Always.

Please be patient. Submissions are processed in the order in which they are received and response time will vary depending on the number of submissions received for that quarter. If you do not receive an acknowledgment of your story within two weeks of submission, please send a query. If you do not receive either an acceptance or a rejection within six weeks, please send a query.

Lyrica Welcomes your Submissions!