Call for Submissions: Solarpunk Magazine

 

Solarpunk is a bimonthly online publication of radically hopeful and optimistic science fiction and fantasy.

Submissions open: July 1-14

The Basics:

If your work is accepted, please wait two full submission windows before submitting again. For example, if a story you receive word in April that your story is accepted, please do not submit during the May and July open windows, but feel free to do so once the September window opens.

Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us.

Unsolicited reprints: No

Translations: Yes

Multiple Submissions: No, not within each category. But you can enter one submission per category per submission period. For example, you can submit one short story, poetry, and a nonfiction article all in the same submission window using each individual submission portal.

Policy on Artificial Intelligence

We recognize that there is a lot of positive potential for human societies in the development and use of technologies such as artificial intelligence. We also recognize that there is a lot of justifiable concern over generative AI, data scraping, plagiarizing human created art and literary works, and the potential for AI to displace human artists and authors from their jobs as a means of further enriching oligarchs and techbros.

Solarpunk Magazine is and will remain a venue for human authors and artists to showcase their work. As a result, we’ve implemented a strict policy:

1. We do not accept any work created or altered by generative artificial intelligence programs such as, but not limited to Midjourney, Dall-E, Grok, and ChatGPT.
2. We do not use any generative AI tools in the course of our editorial work.

For a more in depth explanation of the reasoning behind this policy, please click here.

Word Counts & Pay Rates:

Solarpunk Magazine pays professional market rates for fiction as defined by SFWA. Dollar amounts reflect the United States dollar (USD).
Our rates are as follows:

Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum)
Poetry: One poem of up to three pages ($40 per poem)
Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article)
Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished
Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished

If your submission is accepted, a copy of our publishing contract will be emailed to you to read, sign, and return.

More information and submission portal here.