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
- Aboriginal people
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 fiction and written by Indigenous authors.
Once we reach the submission 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 16th
- Novelette Submissions: June 4th
That means writers may only send one story across all three open submissions. If you have submitted a story to our April or June open call, you may not submit for this open call.
Please see our fiction submission guidelines for more details on how to submit once we open and what we publish. Since we are using a submission cap, we encourage authors to submit promptly!