Empty Oaks

Permanently Closed: This project is permanently closed to submissions (March 2016). We provide the following information as an archive.

About

Well-imagined and empathetic characters are a must. If you want to curry our favour further, we’re suckers for vivid descriptive writing, unusual places and original settings. We drool over spare, crisp and controlled prose. We get dewy-eyed over social realism and social commentary, which can be a rare thing in genre fiction. We love to read work from under-represented voices or about marginalized individuals and groups, resistance, rebellion and the struggles against oppression. And we have a mile-wide soft spot for folk stories, myths, giant allegories and fables, ‘topias of either prefix, classic ghost stories and shit-the-bed horror, among other things. Above all, we want work that has a point. We like Shirley Jackson, Ursula K Le Guin, John Wyndham, Robert Aickman, J G Ballard, Algernon Blackwood, Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert W Chambers, Mervyn Peake, Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood. If your work owes a debt to any of the above then we would be very curious to read it.

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream
Horror Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream, Supernatural
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Dystopian, Slipstream

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 6,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Essay: No specific word count limits known; Unknown number of pieces.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; Unknown number of pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026