z

Young Writers Society


Cicada Magazine



User avatar
537 Reviews


Gender: Female
Points: 60568
Reviews: 537
Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:51 pm
Evi says...



CICADA, for readers ages 14 and up, publishes original fiction, poetry, and first-person nonfiction by both adult and teen writers. Please keep in mind that CICADA's readers are intelligent and sophisticated and can handle complexity with respect to theme, characterization, and plotting. The editors want to provide a balance of serious and humorous writing within each issue.
FICTION: Realistic, contemporary, historical, humor, mysteries, fantasy, science fiction
POETRY: Serious, humorous, rhyming or free verse


Cicada accepts submissions from 14-23 year olds with stories up to 5,000 words, poetry up to 25 lines, and short snippets called "Expressions" from 350 to 1,500 words. They actually pay! Here is their website, and here is their Duotrope's Digest listing with some acceptance statistics.
"Let's eat, Grandma!" as opposed to "Let's eat Grandma!": punctuation saves lives.
  








You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
— Rod Serling