The Chamber Magazine would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin.
I am seeking short stories, poems, non-fiction articles of a dark nature. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they can be considered dark in some way.
Your work must be in English. It can a translation from your native language, but it must be in English, which is spoken around the globe and gives the work and author substantial worldwide exposure.
Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the American and English markets. However, all rights remain with the author.
Currently, The Chamber is publishing material within a few weeks of acceptance, though this may vary depending on the number of submissions.
Please share this announcement to give it maximum exposure.
The Chamber Magazine would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin.
I am seeking short stories, poems, non-fiction articles of a dark nature. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they can be considered dark in some way.
Your work must be in English. It can a translation from your native language, but it must be in English, which is spoken around the globe and gives the work and author substantial worldwide exposure.
Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the American and English markets. However, all rights remain with the author.
Currently, The Chamber is publishing material within a few weeks of acceptance, though this may vary depending on the number of submissions.
Please share this announcement to give it maximum exposure.
The Chamber Magazine would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin.
I am seeking short stories, poems, non-fiction articles of a dark nature. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they can be considered dark in some way.
Your work must be in English. It can a translation from your native language, but it must be in English, which is spoken around the globe and gives the work and author substantial worldwide exposure.
Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the American and English markets. However, all rights remain with the author.
Currently, The Chamber is publishing material within a few weeks of acceptance, though this may vary depending on the number of submissions.
Please share this announcement to give it maximum exposure.
The Chamber Magazine would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin.
I am seeking short stories, poems, non-fiction articles of a dark nature. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they can be considered dark in some way.
Your work must be in English. It can a translation from your native language, but it must be in English, which is spoken around the globe and gives the work and author substantial worldwide exposure.
Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the American and English markets. However, all rights remain with the author.
Currently, The Chamber is publishing material within a few weeks of acceptance, though this may vary depending on the number of submissions.
Please share this announcement to give it maximum exposure.
I seldom use Facebook in my private life. Therefore, I had not checked on The Chamber’s account in sometime until today when I was meddling with some settings in WordPress. Upon investigating, I found that, to my horror, WordPress had not been sharing posts with The Chamber’s Facebook account for months. I had been taking it for granted that they were being shared.
Long story short, after some digging and effort I have managed to set up The Chamber so that it once again posts automatically to The Chamber’s Facebook page whenever something is posted on The Chamber’s blog.
If you do not see any posts on The Chamber’s Facebook page for a long time, please let me know.
As of August 2023, The Chamber will publish as new material comes in, usually within two weeks of acceptance. This means that the magazine may be updated daily at times, often with only one story or poem, sometimes with a few, sometimes with several. Be sure to follow The Chamber’s blog to see our latest updates.
New dark fiction and poetry by the best of contemporary dark short fiction writers and poets including: Grove Koger, Jon Richter, Tombstone Traveler Weekly, Mehnaz Sahibzada, Dan Bornstein, Dylan Ferner-Rose, Jim Piatt, Brian J. Buchanon, Matt Anderson, Dean Schreck, Hana Carolina, Matthew Tyrer, Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, Sarah Klein, Yuan Changming, Cliff Aliperti, Isabel Grey, and Simon Berry.
New dark fiction and poetry by the best of contemporary dark short fiction writers and poets including: Grove Koger, Jon Richter, Tombstone Traveler Weekly, Mehnaz Sahibzada, Dan Bornstein, Dylan Ferner-Rose, Jim Piatt, Brian J. Buchanon, Matt Anderson, Dean Schreck, Hana Carolina, Matthew Tyrer, Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, Sarah Klein, Yuan Changming, Cliff Aliperti, Isabel Grey, and Simon Berry.
New dark fiction and poetry by the best of contemporary dark short fiction writers and poets including: Grove Koger, Jon Richter, Tombstone Traveler Weekly, Mehnaz Sahibzada, Dan Bornstein, Dylan Ferner-Rose, Jim Piatt, Brian J. Buchanon, Matt Anderson, Dean Schreck, Hana Carolina, Matthew Tyrer, Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, Sarah Klein, Yuan Changming, Cliff Aliperti, Isabel Grey, and Simon Berry.
In order to maximize its global outreach, The Chamber Magazine is seeking translations of dark short stories, dark poetry, and essays from any language into English. The original language translation should accompany the English translation so that both can be run in the same post for comparison and for the benefit of those who speak the same language.
The Chamber seeks an audience from around the world. While English is widely spoken, when people search the Internet, they will probably search in their native language before searching in other languages. Therefore, The Chamber Magazine needs to have as many languages as possible represented in its pages.
Submissions of translations need to follow the same submission guidelines as all other material with one exception. The 7,500 word limit will apply to only the English translation and not to the original language document.
Please query or comment below if you have any questions.
Please repost this so that it receives maximum distribution.
The Chamber Magazine and Rural Fiction Magazine both ranked high among Feedspot’s list of top fiction magazines.
I did a little surfing on the Internet yesterday and ran across a couple of articles that gave me a reason to smile.
First, I ran across Feedspot’s Top Ten List of Fiction Magazines (see the snippet above) and both The Chamber Magazine (#5) and Rural Fiction Magazine (#7) were on there. This list was published on May 13, 2023. If you are not familiar with Feedspot, they bill themselves as “the largest human-curated database of bloggers and podcasts”. I think I submitted both mags to them awhile back for listing in their database, but I had no idea either The Chamber or RFM would be on any top ten list for a long time. Thanks, Feedspot! This means the world to me! Their comment that The Chamber publishes stories that “chilling, thought-provoking, and emotionally resonant” goes to the credit of The Chamber’s brilliant, professional, dedicated writers and poets.
I have a slight issue with only two details. One is that they say The Chamber was founded in 2013. I believe this may be technically true. I started on it several years ago (I don’t recall exactly when), but I did not seriously pursue making it a successful magazine until December 2020. The second is that they didn’t choose a cover photo like they did for the others. I have no idea why not.
Second, while searching for The Chamber Magazine and “science fiction”, a list of Pinterest’s top ten science fiction sites popped up as seen below. Searching for “science fiction” on Pinterest, will produce much the same results minus The Chamber. So I do not know how Pinterest selects its supposed “top ten” (it may just be at random). In any case, it feels nice to see The Chamber on any list that includes “Amazing Stories” (who used to publish HP Lovecraft when he was new), “Fantasy and Science Fiction”, and “Asimov’s Science Fiction”.
Thank you sincerely to all you science-fiction writers who contributed to The Chamber and to all you science-fiction aficionados who read The Chamber Magazine.
As an experiment, I have decided to no longer post individual stories and poems to the blog page. I have been afraid that with as many stories and poems as each issue has, to have so many be published at once will clog up people’s feeds and make it long and tiresome to move through the blog page.
Having them post individually is also redundant in a couple of ways. First, all the stories and poems are already posted to the home page. Then they are then copied and posted on the Dark Stories, Dark Flash Fiction, or Dark Poetry pages. Second, they are already posted to the blog by having links on the Contents page which goes out to the blog.
I hope that doing this will free up a lot of space for readers and will keep posts from filling up inboxes or feeds needlessly.
If, however, you prefer that I keep posting the individual stories to the blog, please let me know. If enough readers object, I will return to posting each story/poem to the blog.
Sincerely,
Phil Slattery
Publisher
If you have a moment, please check out Slattery Publishing’s other endeavor: Rural Fiction Magazine.
The Chamber Magazine wants to publish short, dark fiction and poetry of any and all genres from around the world, as well as book reviews and critical and personal essays.
The Chamber is seeking include, but are not limited to: horror, dystopian, fantasy, grimdark, action-adventure, suspense/ thriller, literary, science-fiction, historical, mystery/ crime, noir, romance, Western, experimental, cyberpunk, steampunk, weird fiction, gothic/ goth, general, creepypastas, humor or of any combination of the above.
The maximum length for works of fiction is 7,500 words.
For poetry, the maximum length is 40 lines.
The primary criterion is that your work must be in English. It can be a translation from your native language, but a translation must accompany it in English for maximum exposure around the globe.
Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the English-speaking markets. However, all rights remain with the author.
Just to let everyone know, tomorrow’s cover page with the links to the stories went out earlier than planned last night before the posts were published. As a result, you may click on a link from the cover, and it will go nowhere. This should not be the case tomorrow. Tomorrow the full issue will go out at 10:00 a.m. including the posts and (hopefully) all will run smoothly. There are some other minor glitches in the system currently, but those are being resolved. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Just a brief note to mention that The Chamber’s twitter account (@magazinechamber) is now at 499 followers and is growing at the rate of about 1-2 per day. Thanks everyone!
I am making a subtle change to The Chamber’s overall organization. I will start previewing certain things (like next month’s cover) over at The Chamber’s Buy Me a Coffee site. I will test this a while and see how it goes. If there is enough interest and I can start to stay organized, I may have memberships there at a low rate, so donors can have access to plans and development and other stuff in advance of the main website and blog. I put a few posts up over there tonight, so you may want to hop over and check them out.
On another minor note, the banner above is one I designed to be used on Twitter or as a featured image on a post. After some experience with posting stories on this website, I have found that the featured image for a story (which may or may not be the one the reader sees at the top of a page) is the one that goes out to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tumbler. Cropping it to fit a Twitter post seems to be the best way to make it fit into all four social media sites. You may see this from time to time.
I would like to take a moment from your busy day to ask a quick favor: could you please give The Chamber a quick, honest review on Google Business by following this link? Accumulating reviews is critical to the contemporary business world. Every one helps.
Also, the next time you see The Chamber mentioned somewhere online or in social media, could you grant The Chamber a quick, honest review also? Keeping The Chamber’s face in front of the public as much as possible helps build a devoted readership.
Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter. I hope you have a great day.
I am just dropping a quick note to let everyone know I have just now uploaded a new video to The Chamber’s YouTube Channel. It is an introduction to The Chamber, its origin and aims, and it provides a little background on me as well. I have perhaps made it more informative than enjoyable, but I think you will find it interesting in any case. Drop by when you can. New videos go up sporadically.
I have whipped up a rough video with a few tips on submitting short fiction to The Chamber and added it to the Submissions page. I am still learning the ins and outs of creating videos, so please be merciful in your critique of it. Please also note, on a personal aside, that I am often perceived by many people as rough and abrasive even when I am happy. With some practice, these videos, will become more professional and hopefully more enjoyable and more helpful to watch.
I have posted this and a few other rudimentary videos to both The Chamber’s YouTube channel and to my own YouTube channel. Check them out if you get the chance. A lot of them I do just to learn how to create videos while, at this point, only a few are for informational purposes. I hope to add more frequently as my production skills increase.
The Saturday Night Special on August 20, 2022 at 10:00 p.m. (US central time) will feature the story “What Was It” by Fitz-James O’Brien, whose literary place is described as:
Fitz-James O’Brien, (born c. 1828, County Limerick, Ireland—died April 6, 1862, Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.), Irish-born American journalist, playwright, and author whose psychologically penetrating tales of pseudoscience and the uncanny made him one of the forerunners of modern science fiction…His best-known stories include “The Diamond Lens,” about a man who falls in love with a being he sees through a microscope in a drop of water; “What Was It?” in which a man is attacked by a thing he apprehends with every sense but sight; and “The Wondersmith,” in which robots are fashioned only to turn upon their creators. These three stories appeared in periodicals in 1858 and 1859.
Britannica.com July 31, 2022
“What Was It? A Mystery” is one the earliest examples of invisibility in literature and his story “From Hand to Mouth” is one of the earliest examples of surrealism.
“The Saturday Night Special” is a new feature of The Chamber Magazine that reprints classic stories of literary horror. It runs every Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. US central time for timeless thrills and chills.
If you were kind enough to purchase one of The Chamber’s many products at The Chamber Magazine’s Gift Shop or in The Bookshop, don’t forget to leave a quick, honest review of the product. This helps support the magazine and gets you a smidgen more public exposure, which every writer needs. It also helps me decide which products to carry and which designs are popular.
If you can’t decide which book to purchase, read one of Ryan Tan’s reviews to help with that decision or buy one of the many books available from The Chamber’s contributors. The Chamber has separate shelves in the bookshop for both of those categories.
If you were kind enough to purchase one of The Chamber’s many products at The Chamber Magazine’s Gift Shop or in The Bookshop, don’t forget to leave a quick, honest review of the product. This helps support the magazine and gets you a smidgen more public exposure, which every writer needs. It also helps me decide which products to carry and which designs are popular.
If you can’t decide which book to purchase, read one of Ryan Tan’s reviews to help with that decision or buy one of the many books available from The Chamber’s contributors. The Chamber has separate shelves in the bookshop for both of those categories.
