Taking Submissions: Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human

by Stuart Conover · Published April 24, 2025 · Updated April 16, 2025

Deadline: August 31st, 2025
Payment: $50 AUD
Theme: Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human

Our second anthology will gather a wide range of creative responses on the theme of Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human.

We want to foster neurodivergent situated knowledge that is not limited to the traditional academic essay: engage in autotheory, autoethnography, creative essay, poetry, short story, speculative sci-fi, visual art, and more.

While the close bond between neurodivergent humans and other living beings are often put forward, little thematic focus has been placed on the intersection of neurodiversity and the more-than-human in academic and creative writing. This anthology seeks to fill this gap and foster a more-than-human turn in neurodiversity with an emphasis on creative responses.

With this turn in mind, Ombre Tarragnat has formulated the concept of ethodiversity, which refers to the different ways we exist in the world as animals. It includes our behaviours, but also our affects, personalities, orientations, etc. It encompasses neurodiversity but isn’t reduced to it. Ethodivergence is a way of being and behaving that is different from the majority in one’s species or milieu, or from the behavioural norms imposed on us by humanist principles. As a framework, ethodiversity can help us map the intersection of neurodiversity and animality. See more here.

We invite our writers to be as creative and experimental as they can in whatever style or mode they choose, and to think beyond the boundaries of established genres. Hybridity and experiments with form, as well as artistic enhancement with visual components, are encouraged.

For organisational reasons, the anthology will be in English. However, we invite authors to develop their writing projects in their native or preferred language and then proceed to submit an English translation. If you are unable to translate your work into English, then we will also accept submissions in Spanish, Portuguese and French, which we will then translate if accepted. If submitting a text in these three languages, please send both the original and a translation for the purposes of review.

We primarily aim to collect original work that has not been previously published. However, we will also accept translations of previously published texts, provided they speak to the theme and are not under copyright or have any other legal restrictions.

Payment: We will pay each author $50 AUD per story, plus a free digital copy of the book. Authors also have the opportunity to purchase a discounted physical copy of the book at wholesale price.

Rights: We get first publication rights and hold the rights to your text for three years from publication. After that time, the rights revert back to you.

Please submit your original composition consisting of a maximum 5000 words, comprehensive of a title and a 150 word bio to: [email protected] by the deadline: August 31st, 2025.

The main theme is Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human, but we encourage contributors to expand on this idea in any direction. Below are some suggested topics, though you are not limited to these.