Check out this cool new award: The InkMark, for small and mid-sized speculative magazines. Help us spread the word!
From the sponsors:
There’re a lot of spec magazines and journals out there publishing very cool stuff that gets overlooked by the major awards, and we’d like to fix that.
This is a goal I’m happy to support, so I’m thrilled to be part of the jury panel. Here’s some more info:
There’s no fee to enter, and on top of the $1000 grand prize, the winning publication will receive a sick trophy and $500 worth of promotional art. We’re not leaving out the authors, either. The authors of the winning publication’s five submitted stories will each receive $100, and the top three stories across the entire submissions pool will also receive $100.
Submissions run from June 15th to July 15th or whenever we hit 80 magazine submissions.
- Must publish firmly speculative stories– the Wikipedia definition of speculative fiction is just above the submission form
- Must publish in English
- Must have been publishing stories for at least 3 years. (At least two of the five representing stories must have been published between June 15th, 2025 and June 15th, 2026)
- Must pay authors (Even token payment counts!)
- Must charge no fee for submission
- Does not allow AI
- All stories are free-to-read online
- One entry per publication, and only a publisher may enter; authors may encourage their publishers to enter, but may not enter works on a publisher’s behalf
And speculative poetry is also encouraged!
All the info is available on the InkMark website!
Myna Chang 