Submission & Collaborations
Thank you for choosing to work with Inked in Gray Press! For accessibility and to ensure your submission gets to the right team, please use the appropriate form below. If you are an agent, you may email us directly at Lauren at submissions@inkedingray.com for speculative fiction and Kamlynn at romance@inkedingray.com for marginalized romance submissions.
All unagented submissions must use one of the forms below.
Speculative Fiction Submissions
If you feel your speculative fiction work is a good fit for Inked in Gray Press, please use the form below only when submissions are open. Please do NOT submit work to us when our submission are closed.
Status: SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED
Acquisitions Editors: Lauren Davila, Sangy Vazquez
- AGE/MARKET
- Young Adult
- Adult
- GENRE
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror/Triller
- Contemporary
- GENRE
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror/Triller
- Contemporary
Marginalized Romance
Notes: Romance featuring marginalized authors has been an underserved and underpublished area for quite some time. Our marginalized romance submissions are for marginalized authors only.
International submissions welcome! We will never ask you to out yourself in order to submit or be accepted.
Status: OPEN
Acquisitions Editor: K.C. Thomas
- AGE/MARKET
- Young Adult
- Adult
- GENRE
- Romance
- Romance can occur alongside speculative fiction genre
- WE WILL NOT ACCEPT
- Any work created with AI
- Previously published works
- Harmful representations or tropes
Hope in a Grimdark World
STELLAR PARALLAX: HUMAN HOPE IN GRIMDARK WORLDS
Status: OPEN APRIL 1, 2025 TO JUNE 30,2025
Acquisitions Editor: AJ Van Belle
- AGE/MARKET
- Adult
- GENRE
- Science Fiction
- WE WILL NOT ACCEPT
- Any work created with AI
- Previously published works
- Harmful representations or tropes
Basic Submission Details:
For full submission details please see our Announcement post.
Theme: All stories should have a message of hope whilst surrounded by darkness
Who Can Submit: **International submissions accepted. **
Submissions must be in English. See further story guidelines below before submitting.
Word Limit: Between 2K and 7K words
Genre: Science Fiction
Age: Upper YA & Adult
Payment: $50 per piece
Rights: First edition exclusive anthology rights for the first six months of publication