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Nico Martinez Nocito (they/them) writes speculative poetry and fiction with a queer, feminist bent. Their work has been published by Utopia Science Fiction, Speculation Publications, and Flame Tree Press, and has been nominated for the Rhysling Award. Learn more about Nico and their writing on Bluesky and Instagram @nicowritesbooks.


Nico Martinez Nocito in our archives
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14 Apr 2025

Novelette Submission Guidelines 
Strange Horizons
On June 4th, we will be opening for speculative fiction novelette submissions between the word count of 10,000 and 18,000 words. We will cap submissions at 300. Once we reach the cap, we’ll close our portal while we work through the submissions. If our portal is open, we are still accepting stories, but once it is closed, please do not send us your work. In order to allow more writers to submit to us and widen our pool of submissions, we will not be allowing multiple or simultaneous submissions to our other open windows throughout the year: General Submissions: April
Indigenous Author Submissions 
Strange Horizons
On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500. When we say Indigenous authors, some examples include: Polynesian Inuit Indigenous People of North and South America African Greenlandic Jamaican Aborigines This list is not comprehensive and we encourage and ask that authors submitting to this open call tell us in their cover letters the specificities of your identity(ies). The stories submitted do not have to be stories about or set within an Indigenous culture or feature characters from that culture, but they do have to be speculative
Skink Song 
back-legg-ed, puppy shaped and squirmy
The Church at the Edge of Time 
the pastor is a woman / with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes.
Pandora's Formula 
The formula for how to end the world got published the same day I married the girl who used to bully me in middle school. We found out about it the morning after, on the first day of our honeymoon in Cozumel. I got out of the shower in our small bungalow and Minju was sitting in bed, staring at her laptop.
Monday: New Adventures in Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan 
Wednesday: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton 
Friday: She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor 
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