Phase 5 accepts art, fiction, music and video of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. Role-playing submissions will also be considered if the content or concept is not otherwise licensed.
We accept:
- fiction of all lengths
- Visual art of all static types (computer generated, hand drawn, inked, colored, painted, 3D, serials, illustration and comics)
- dynamic visual arts (animation, movies)
- music
We do not accept:
- computer/video games
- pornography
- "torture porn"
- work licensed elsewhere or created under contract
- work that infringes upon the property rights of another
- fan-fiction, fan-art, fan-films or filking
To Submit
Please review our Guidelines to make sure your work is ready for submission for publication, then send a completed submission form with your work to submissions@phase5publishing.com. If your file is larger than 10MB, please do not attach to this initial email, but request an FTP link.
What to expect
All submissions are reviewed. If a submission is selected, a licensing agreement is entered between Phase 5 and the creator. Then works are edited and creators revise as necessary to come to a final, professional, publishable product. The work is published in one or more of Phase 5's publications, on the website, through third-party distributors, and is available for sale. Creators will receive royalty payments in accordance with their licensing agreement, but is generally 25-50% of the net profit per sale for all sales of their work individually or in collections and anthologies. Creators will also receive income from patronage garnered through Phase 5's website and other methods of soliciation of the same.
Submission Form
Copy and paste this form into your email; print, fill in, scan and email, however works for you, just send the information with your submission.
Please read before you submit:If your work is set in anyone else's world, uses anyone else's characters, or uses any material trademarked or subject to copyright owned or licensed to anyone else except you, please contact us first with the details of your authority to submit this work for publication. If your work can be categorized as fan fiction, fan art, fan film, or filking, please do not submit it for publication.
If your work contains sex or graphic violence, please make sure it is necessary to the story. Pornography and "torture porn" will not be accepted.
Please review our Guidelines to make sure your work is ready for submission for publication.
Please complete the following form (copy and paste into email or document, or print, complete and scan) and email with your work to submissions@phase5publishing.com.
Your name:Your email address:
Title of your submission:
Genre of your submission (science fiction, fantasy, horror, blend, sub-genre...):
Have you been published before? (It's OK,we will accept unpublished creators.)
Has this work been submitted to other publishers?
Is this work still under consideration by those publishers? (meaning you have not received their decision yet).
Has this work been licensed to another publisher?
If yes, has that license expired?
Is this work for sale anywhere else?
Have you created anything else in this setting?
Have you created anything else with these characters?
Have those works been published?