Summary

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Since August of 2021, Uncharted Magazine has been a premier publisher of short fiction and the newest platform from the team behind The Masters Review, CRAFT, and Fractured Lit. We seek stories that provide a thrilling escape, a surprising new world, or a brain-twisting mystery.

The Stories they Publish

Sci-Fi & Fantasy — We love to read tales of other worlds that reveal clearly just how strange our own actually is.

Thriller/Mystery — We are rolling horror stories into this category! We want stories that keep us up at night, that take us into the resonant fear of looming monsters and haunting ghosts. We want stories that thrill us by keeping us on the edges of our seats, hearts pounding, wondering how it will end!

Humor — We’re looking for stories that bring the humor. Satire, slapstick, the weirdness of life, and extended jokes can find a home with us. Make sure it’s fiction, and that at its heart it engages with rich characters and entertaining plots.

We cannot wait to read your writing. You can submit your stories today at: uncharted.submittable.com/submit

 

Who are they

Their founders, Tommy Dean and Josh Roark, love genre writing. They wanted to create a space where writers and readers can truly gather together to share and experience outstanding stories. Uncharted publishes new work every week from both emerging and established authors, and our prestigious contests make sure our authors get the chance to make real money and earn real recognition. We also regularly publish writing advice, community news, essays, interviews, and more—all centered around our shared love of great stories.

Associate Editors: Elizabeth Crowder, Myna Chang, and Jason Bartles.

Our readers are Andrew Maust, B. B. Garin, Belicia Rhea, Carmen DaVinleam, Caroljean Gavin, Danielle Stonehirsch, David Chang, Dominic Turnea, E Hovgaard, Eliana Gruvman, Elizabeth Rosen, Gabriella Contratto, Gage Saylor, J. C. Pillard, Jennifer McCready, Justine Payton, Matthew Cushing, Nelly Shulman, Sara Tausendfreund, Steve Biersdorf, and Taylor Necko.

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Their Values

They believe that the art of storytelling serves as a medium to help us empathize with and learn from others. At Uncharted, we strive to maintain an inclusive literary magazine that desires to represent diverse voices in the stories we publish. To that end, we will not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, disability, family status, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, or for any other reason. 

What we love about genre fiction is the ability to find emotional truth through the reimagination and defamiliarization of the status quo, and to find common joy through shared experiences of discovery and fantasy and mystery. We hold this core belief close: the joy of speculative fiction is only enhanced by the diversity of its characters and its authors.

Therefore, we reserve the right not to publish works that dwell unnecessarily in or that are unchallenging of the discrimination categories listed above. We reserve the right to send back work without complete review if we find the work violates our vision of inclusivity and nondiscrimination. We also reserve the right to deplatform writers if we learn that they have broken our nondiscrimination values elsewhere. At Uncharted, we believe in empathy, inclusivity, and diversity, and we pledge to uphold those values.