A wooden boat moored at a lakeshore with autumn leaves on the dock, a foggy landscape with a church and a hill in the background reflected in the calm water.

Welcome to Astoria…

…Adventure Awaits

What is

Astoria?

Astoria is a community-based Fantasy Fiction quarterly publication, created by writers for writers. Together, we aim to chart every field, every forest, every cave, and every sky island of Astoria—the magical realm our that kingdom’s survivors portalled to after ours was overtaken by Gorlocks. Each issue reports the thrilling tales our weary band of adventurers have as they settle in to their new home. Astoria is a dangerous, mysterious, and perilous place. It’s up to us to explore, catalog, and get to know it.

Each quarterly issue aims to:

  1. Chart a new region of the magical land and uncover the next chapter of the kingdom’s story.

  2. Provide a compelling platform for fantasy creative writers and artists to help collectively discover/craft the lore of the land and make their voices heard.

Submissions always accepted.

Authors will always be credited for their work.

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Submit!

Interested in joining the adventure?

For our next issue, we will be covering the topic: First Touches.

If you are interested in a more detailed description of the prompt, look here.

All submissions must:

  • Be in .doc or .docx file format.

  • Be no more than 10,000 words.

  • Be in 12 pt. Times New Roman Font.

  • Be appropriate for an audience of age 14 and up.

    • At the current time, we will not be accepting pieces that would be considered smut. (If there is enough interest, there may be an “Astoria After Hours” issue of the mag… Stay tuned.)

  • Be written by a human. (No submissions written in any part by generative AI will be accepted for publication.)