Taking Submissions: Scott’s Planet
Deadline: May 30th, 2022 Payment: 3 cents per word Theme: Shared world science fiction anthology based on the short story at the end of this post A Shared World Anthology based on an existing short story contained at the end of the this description. 500 to 5000 words. Obviously no repritns. Poetry considered. Pays 3 cents a word upon publication. Closes May 30, 2022. Anticipated Pub Date, February 2023. This is the short simple story the world is set in. Use your imagination. This is not the only settlement. These are not the only characters. I'm looking to fill a world here. Scott's Planet I set my gear on the shelf outside the back door and wiped my feet. There was a downside to free range chickens. Lois spoke from the kitchen. “So it’s happened.” She said the words matter-of-factly. “Yup.” I answered. I began shedding my boots--even cleaned, they didn’t enter the house. She continued. “I downloaded the details. They say we have three weeks to be ready for transport. There’ll only be one ship. A one-way trip to almost anywhere.” We had known this was coming. Now it was final. Scott’s Planet, once in the first wave of colonization planets, was now determined by the Union to no longer be economically viable. “We don’t have to go.” I said. “Don’t be silly. You know we’ve always talked about leaving.” She was right. She often spoke of leaving. I let the silence speak for me. All sounds from the kitchen stopped. There were footsteps. Lois appeared in the doorway. “You don’t want to go.” The bottom fell out of my stomach. All the make-believe conversations I’d held in my head dropped with it. “I thought we might could talk about it.” “Talk about what? Living in caves and eating...
Taking Submissions: Space Fantasy Magazine #1 (Early Window)
Submission Window: May 1st – 30th, 2022 Payment: 8 cents per word Theme: Is There Anybody Out There? Stories about unexpected encounters in isolated places. What we’re looking for We want stories that challenge our relationship with space—past, present, and future. Get wild. Show us new mythologies and undiscovered gods. Show us what emerges from a black hole when its egg finally cracks. Show us the place where science becomes magic. Your characters don’t need to be human, but there should be something undeniably human in their story. We want social outcasts and lovable bastards. We want courageous optimism in the face of despair. We love dark fiction and elements of horror, but there should be a glimmer of hope in it all. For a sense of our taste, our favorite authors working in this genre include Kameron Hurley, Nnedi Okorafor, and Tamsyn Muir. What we’re not looking for Humans conquering/dominating as a monolithic group. We love unapologetically kickass characters, but we want more nuanced interactions with power. Moralizing from the author. We eagerly welcome stories that reveal a reader’s blindspots and/or biases. We believe the most impactful stories accomplish that through character and narrative, not by telling us how to feel. Gore Erotica Poetry or nonfiction Hateful content directed/analogized toward any group Issue #1: Is There Anybody Out There? The call for our inaugural issue will be May 1 – 30, 2022, with the theme, Is There Anybody Out There? We’re seeking stories about unexpected encounters in isolated places. We will publish one story a month from June through November 2022. All six stories will be compiled in a PDF and made available for download as Issue #1 in December 2022. Here is a sample of our contract: PDF link Before You Submit Our submission window will run from May 1...
