Elegant Lich

At 6am Eastern (around midnight in American Samoa), we closed submissions: We received 315 submissions. We are having great fun working our way through them and still hope to make decisions by the end of the month.

We have been delighted with the response to our call for submissions! We'll be closing for submissions at midnight tonight (October 14, 2026). But submissions are still open until then. We look forward to reading your work! elegantlich.com/submissions/

We've had a nearly overwhelming response to our call for submissions for our inaugural issue. Thanks to everyone for sharing their work with us! blog.elegantlich.com/posts/2026/a...

Friends have started their own sci-fi/fantasy online magazine. Looking great! :)

New publisher listing for: Elegant Lich @elegantlich.com (Fiction; Fantasy; pays). #WritingCommunity

Thanks to @henryherz.bsky.social for spotting and sharing this wonderful t-shirt. We don't have any of our own t-shirts... yet. :-) deetwentees.com/products/res...

Submissions are going well -- We're only 6 days in and we've gotten more than 80 manuscripts! After reading a number of submissions, we decided to make a few minor adjustments to the submissions page. We discuss the changes at our planning blog: blog.elegantlich.com/posts/2026/a...

Elegant Lich at Submission Grinder Elegant Lich is now listed at Submission Grinder. It's starting to feel real! Submissions for the inaugural issue will open on Oct 1, the day after tomorrow. Behind the scenes, Phil and I… https://elegantlich.com/posts/2026/elegant-lich-at-submission-grinder/

Submissions Open for Inaugural Issue On October 1, 2026, Elegant Lich is opening for submissions for our inaugural issue which will be for Q4 2026. Submissions will be open for two weeks and will close on October 14. We do… https://elegantlich.com/posts/2026/submissions-open-for-inaugural-issue/

Submissions What we're looking for: We are looking for all kinds of human-authored fantasy stories. Stories do not need to feature liches (or other kinds of undead). Epic fantasy and cozy stories are particularly welcome. We plan to accept one or two longer… https://elegantlich.com/submissions/

Coming Soon Elegant Lich is coming soon! We plan to open for submissions in October and publish our first issue in Q4 of 2026. https://elegantlich.com/posts/2026/coming-soon/

What goes in the guidelines? Before we can start soliciting manuscripts, we need to write our guidelines. We've already nattered on just a bit about what we might we looking for. This post is about what goes in the guidelines more generally... blog.elegantlich.com/posts/2026/w...

Elegant Lich is a fantasy magazine in very early stages of planning. Visit our blog at blog.elegantlich.com for updates as we develop our plans.