Taking Submissions: Tractor Beam Issue 2
Deadline: May 1st, 2025
Payment: $1,200.00 for all accepted submissions (unclear if this is split between the authors or for each piece.)
Theme: Soilpunk (sci-fi involving soil) with the theme of ‘The Garden’
Your fiction, our future.
Tractor Beam is a new quarterly speculative and science fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk: radical visions of hopeful futures built from the ground up. Our editorial mandate is to explore audacious and provocative ideas around farming, food, earth science, and beyond, reimagining how humans can live more harmoniously with nature.
For our second issue, themed “The Garden”, we’re seeking original written and graphic works set on a future Earth transformed by new approaches to soil. Literal or abstract, near term or on distant horizons: worlds can take inspiration from innovations or alternative practices in earth and material science, regenerative agriculture, food, microbiology, and more. Each story should be a visionary proposal woven into a spectacular plot.
We prefer submissions under 6000 words for writing or 16 panels for graphic novellas. Pitches and pencils are welcome.
Please send all submissions to submissions@tractorbeam.
Tractor Beam pays $1,200.00 for all accepted submissions. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please notify us immediately if your piece was accepted elsewhere so we can withdraw it and congratulate you!
Let’s bring sci-fi down to earth–literally–and sow the seeds of a better tomorrow, today.
Via: Tractor Beam.
