Mission Statement
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Our mission is to "give a voice to the voiceless" by supporting all dark creatives (emerging and established) and their works, with an emphasis on publishing fiction, poetry, and art that have had difficulty finding a publisher. Unlike other magazines that ban slasher, faux pas issues, and Christian themes, TDS welcomes these types of submissions with high consideration.

By providing a stage that highlights the taboo, authors regain their creative freedoms while readers gain a platform that represents a full spectrum of speculative fiction, poetry, and art without the use of censorship.

Likewise, for the creatives themselves, TDS endeavors to go beyond the printed page by providing opportunities for promotion, which includes but is not limited to organizing author/artist events, book signings, and interviews. We even create promotional trailers, a fiction podcast, and folk songs for select works - free of charge for our creatives.

We vow to publish only the best content for a great reading experience while also uplifting and promoting our creatives to celebrate their work.

What makes The Dark Sire different from any other literary journal of its kind?

The Dark Sire (TDS) goes beyond the page for its contributors, thus making the reading experience better for our readership. While most magazines accept work, print, and repeat, TDS accepts work and then does whatever it can to promote that work. By being creative, our contributors' work transcends the page and transforms into something new so that readers experience the work in a totally new way. This gives the creative more exposure and the work a longer shelf life, as magazine prints are very short lived (90 days). Some of the benefits, then, to TDS is that readers can enjoy the written word (digital or paperback), the spoken work (narrated short stories on the TDS Podcast), and the sung word (poetry composed as Folk songs). No other literary magazine gives its creatives different outlets for promotion nor its readership so many different avenues to experience creative works like TDS. And that right there is what makes TDS unique among the other literary journals.
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A message for all AGENTS, PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS, and other INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS

It is our hope that The Dark Sire can provide more opportunities for our published creatives than just adding a line on their resume. Instead, we want to give career-changing opportunities to our creatives. The opportunities for a story to be made into a movie; a story being made into an audiobook, a creative to obtain an agent. TDS is NOT just a magazine but a vehicle that drives creatives to the next level.

​Any industry professional (defined as those who can move someone's career forward) who wishes to join us in our crusade to uplift creatives can request a FREE digital subscription of The Dark Sire. The industry professional would have no obligation to TDS and, if wanted, need only ask for an introduction to a published creative. TDS will never ask for compensation or expect reward from any industry professional OR published creative for making connections and introductions. It is our pleasure merely to give creatives a voice and to share that voice with others that could develop it beyond the page.
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