Call for Submissions: British Science Fiction Association

British Science Fiction Association

Editors Gene Rowe and Eugen Bacon are delighted to announce that submissions for Fission #5 are opening. We’re excited to read your original science fiction stories!

The submissions window opens at midnight on 13 February 2025 and closes at 11:59 pm on 26 February 2025.

Submission guidelines: Email submissions to:

fission@bsfa.co.uk

and put “Fission #5 submission” in the subject header. Please COPY AND PASTE your story into the body of the email. NO ATTACHMENTS.Due to ongoing cybersecurity concerns, we’ll delete any submission that is an attachment or has hyperlinks.

We invite original science fiction stories (genre-bending stories welcome!) up to 5,000 words, and offer a contributor payment rate of 2 pence per word.

We do not accept reprints. We may consider translations for work that has never been published in the English language.

One submission per author, simultaneous submissions welcome, but tell us when your work is accepted elsewhere so we can withdraw it from Fission.

You don’t need to be a BSFA member to submit.

Important note on generative AI: We do not accept any work created or altered by generative ‘AI’ such as, but not limited to, Midjourney and ChatGPT.

Questions? Email:

fission@bsfa.co.uk.

Call for Submissions: Chewers by Masticadores

Chewers by Masticadores

Submissions are always open and free.

Submit up to five pieces of poetry, prose, fiction, creative nonfiction and essays, book reviews, interviews, experimental works, translations, images of original artwork/photography, or collaborations. Include your works in a Word document or in the body of your email.

Add your author image and a short third-person bio (2-3 lines, no more than 50 words) and a link to your website at the bottom of your submission email.

Note: Previously-published contributors do not have to provide an author image or bio unless they want to update their information on this page: https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/contributor-bios/

Chewers accepts both unpublished and previously published work. Submit previously-published work if you own the rights, and note the journal that published your work.

Simultaneous submissions ok.

Please edit for spelling and grammar before you submit.

The Subject line of the email should state Submission – your full name.

Submit to: Nolcha Fox/Editor

email:

nolchafox@yahoo.com

Notes:

Chewers by Masticadores does not allow Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), nor is it a content farm. All of our content is produced by humans. – Nolcha Fox, Editor

Please do not submit work that would be removed from social media if published because it is inappropriate, disrespectful, or offensive. This includes work that is sexist, racist, homophobic, sexually explicit, or hateful. Moreover, this is not a forum for promoting religions, political parties, or products (except books).

After publication, all rights revert to the author. If your work is republished in the future, please credit Chewers by Masticadores as the previous publisher.

Call for Submissions: New Feathers Anthology

New Feathers Anthology is an online literature and art magazine, published three times annually, with a year-end print anthology. We are interested in quality fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, music, and short videos, imposing no restrictions on genre; however, we only accept written work that has not been previously published, whether in print or online.

All work must be electronically submitted to our editors through Duosoma. Works of literature should be attached as a .doc or .docx file. We suggest that literature submissions be formatted with 12 pt. Times New Roman type, and essays and short stories should be double spaced.

Your files should contain no identifying information, as all submissions are read blindly by our editors. Submit each piece in a separate file, so that you can easily withdraw pieces, if necessary. Include a cover letter with your first and last name, email address, mailing address, the title of your work(s), and a brief bio (100 words or less). If you have a project to promote or a website, include a few lines promoting your work and a link to your website.

We are open for submissions from February 1 to March 1 for our spring issue, June 1 to July 1 for our summer issue, and October 1 to November 1 for our winter issue.

​Simultaneous submissions are accepted. If your submission has been accepted by another journal, however, please do us a favor and withdraw the piece. Allow four to six weeks for a decision​Fiction and Nonfiction

We welcome literary fiction submissions of all forms, including those that incorporate experimental or genre elements. We are happy to consider self-contained excerpts of novels and long stories. In nonfiction, we welcome memoir, personal essay, lyric and experimental work, hybrid forms, new journalism and nonacademic cultural criticism. Please limit fiction and nonfiction submissions to one story or essay, with a maximum of 4,000 words. For flash fiction or nonfiction, contributors may submit up to three works.

Poetry
We are looking for fresh, original work that impresses us with its ideas, language, and technique, regardless of the form. When submitting, make sure that the line breaks, spacing, and other formal elements of your poem are correct. Please limit poetry submissions to one to five poems.

Art
Works of visual art should be attached as a .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, or .pdf file. We accept most forms of visual art (as photos); this includes photography, illustration, animation, sculpture, painting, ceramics, and drawing. Each artist can submit up to three pieces of visual art for consideration.

Videos
Since we are an online journal, we are excited to include short films (no more than twenty minutes). We are interested in both documentary and fictional work, of all types. Please attach a link to your video, as a multimedia submission. If your work is accepted, we will arrange a dropbox to upload your file. Please submit just one video per submission.

Music or Sound Art
Music or sound art should be attached as a link, for example to a Soundcloud or Bandcamp file, as a multimedia submission. If your submission is accepted we will arrange a dropbox to upload your file. Please limit your submission to three pieces.

New Feathers Anthology acquires First Electronic Rights and Archival Rights for the work we publish in our magazine. We ask that you give permission for us to also publish your work in the year-end print anthology. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work is later republished, we request you note its initial publication in New Feathers Anthology.

At this time we are unable to offer monetary payment to our contributors, but all contributors will be eligible for the New Feathers Award at the end of the year and will receive a print copy of the year-end anthology comprised of all works published during the year. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Menagerie Magazine

 

Menagerie publishes fictions, essays, and poems. We believe in sentences so sharp they draw blood, the strange and inexplicable, the wild and weird and uncanny, words in thickets, clusters, and flocks, pieces that move us beyond caring what others think about said pieces.

Things we like: fictions ala Borges, Link, Calvino, & Sparks; weird lyric essay; engagements with the environment and natural world; poems that explode form; bricolage, masala, & sagul sagul; forays into the omnipresent information-saturated online architecture we live in.

Things we don’t: lukewarm prose, sentences bereft of emotion, formulaic attempts at being on trend, conformity, pat endings, sentiment-drenched rhyming poems, neat and orderly stories.

We care about writers and artists. That means if you’ve entrusted your work to us, you’ll get a response. And we pay for the work we publish. Because it’s important that we value what you’ve made.

Menagerie is open for two reading periods a year: Feb-May and Aug-Nov. Subs are free till we hit our monthly cap, so get in early. Tip Jar subs are also available during reading periods. (If only tip jar subs are available on the submittable page, that means we’ve hit our monthly free cap. If you want to submit for free, just wait till the start of the next month.)

We’ll do our level best to promote your work, pairing each piece with original artwork, and providing social posts you can use on your own channels. It’s our hope that Menagerie will serve as an accelerator for bringing your work into the world and getting it noticed.

We observe the following guidelines:

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw it.

• Please submit to only one category at a time. A focused submission is better than hitting all categories at once.

• Poetry submissions may include 3-5 poems at once. If one of the poems is accepted elsewhere, notify us, and we’ll continue considering the other poems in your submission.

• Stories and essays should be no more than 5K. We tend to publish in the 1-3K category more frequently, through, given the short attention span we all have on the web.

• We pay $50 per acceptance (e.g. one piece of prose or one to three poems) and acquire first serial rights. We do not republish work that has already appeared elsewhere.

• Please expect a response time of 30-60 days.

In short: if you’ve written something and don’t know what to call it, we want to see it. Our menagerie is vast and unending, and contains all size and shape of curios.

Perhaps yours will soon be one of them.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Ephemeral--The Beauty in Impermanence": Isele Quarterly

Call for Submissions: Ephemeral – The Beauty in Impermanence

Not everything lasts forever, and that’s okay.

For this quarterly issue of Isele Magazine, we are seeking submissions that revolve around the ephemeral – those transient yet profoundly meaningful moments that shape our experiences. Conceptually, this quarterly issue is rooted in the idea that some of life’s most powerful and beautiful experiences are short—the soft glow of a sunset, the brief connection between strangers, the rush of emotions in an unforgettable encounter, the final note of a song, the last episode of your favourite series, the decay of a once-vibrant structure, the quiet moments that pass us by unnoticed. Experiences that are momentary, yet unforgettable.

Through this issue, we wish to explore impermanence—not as something tragic, but as something that underscores the delicate nature of existence. We want works that explore the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence. We invite you to reflect on what it means to embrace the present while recognizing that it, too, is slipping away. It’s in the vanishing of these moments that we can find beauty, nostalgia, and a deeper connection to both the world and ourselves. Send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, visual art, and hybrid works that explore this theme.

Submission guidelines:

All submissions for the quarterly issue should be submitted to:

 quarterly@iselemagazine.com 

• The email subject line should read Genre: Lastname (e.g. Poetry: Angelou).

• We DO NOT accept multiple submissions. Please submit to one genre only.

• For fiction and nonfiction, submit max. 5000 words of prose.

• For poetry, submit max. 3 poems in a single document.

• For photography and visual art, submit max. 5 images in JPEG or PNG format and include a brief note detailing the concept and relevance of your work. Only submit work that you still retain the rights to. We DO NOT accept AI-generated images or artwork.

• For prose (fiction and nonfiction) and poetry, we DO NOT publish previously published works (by this, we mean any piece that has appeared on the web or in print, including your personal blog). However, we will consider a translated version of the work if the original language wasn’t in English. For photography and visual art, we may publish works that have been previously published, posted, or exhibited as long as the artist still retains the rights.

• We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us as soon as your work is accepted elsewhere so that we can withdraw it from consideration.

• Submission fees and payment of contributors: We DO NOT charge submission fees. All submissions are free of charge.

Isele Magazine pays all its contributors a modest token.

Rights: Isele Magazine requests the first serial rights of your published piece. However, all rights will revert to you after publication. If your work is republished elsewhere, please indicate that it previously appeared in Isele Magazine.

The Isele Prizes: All accepted submissions are automatically considered for The Isele Prizes.

Deadline: 7th March 2025

We will respond to every submission no later than two months from the submission deadline. If you have not heard from us within two months, please feel free to send a query to

quarterly@iselemagazine.com.

General Submissions

We do not accept multiple submissions, but we do consider simultaneous submissions. Please let us know ASAP if the work submitted has been accepted for publication elsewhere.

Please do not submit previously published works (by this, we mean any piece that has appeared on the web or in print, including your personal blog). However, we will consider a translated version of the work if the original language wasn’t in English.

Please include a brief cover letter with the title of your piece and a third-person bio.

Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Due to the volume of the submissions we receive, we aim to respond within six months, though it can be longer. If you have not heard from us after one year of your submission, please feel free to send a query to:

editor@iselemagazine.com.

Isele Magazine requests first serial rights of your published piece. However, all rights will revert to you after publication. And if your work is republished elsewhere, please indicate that it was first published in Isele Magazine.

We pay our contributors a modest token.

Fiction & Nonfiction Submissions

You may submit up to 6,000 words of fiction and 3,500 words of nonfiction. Please make sure your manuscript is double-spaced, preferably in Times New Roman or Garamond size 12 font. We rarely publish novel excerpts but have been known to make exceptions.

Send fiction (as a Word document attachment) to:

fiction@iselemagazine.com

Send nonfiction (as a Word document attachment) to:

nonfiction.iselemagazine@gmail.com

Poetry

You may submit up to 4 pages of poetry or one long poem. Please submit as a single document.

Send poetry (as Word document attachment) to:

poetry.iselemagazine@gmail.com 

Book Reviews

Submit up to 1,500 words. Double-spaced, Times New Roman, size 12 font.

Send book reviews to:

submissions.iselemagazine@gmail.com.

All accepted submissions (excluding book reviews) are automatically considered for The Isele Prizes.

Call for Submissions: Four Way Review

Four Way Review accepts poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors. We look for work that demonstrates fine attention to craft while retaining a powerful and compelling voice. We want writing that showcases the imagination's unique ability to refine the raw materials of human experience.

We encourage submissions from diverse voices.

Unsolicited submissions are considered year-round. Before submitting, please see our latest issue and ensure your work is a good fit. Please wait to hear back from us before submitting again.

We accept .pdf (preferred), .doc, and .docx. You may also include a cover letter with your contact information and a brief bio in the "comments" box. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please note this in your cover letter and let us know immediately if a piece is accepted somewhere else. Due to a high volume of submissions, we cannot respond individually to withdrawal requests.

In order to offer our writers a small honorarium, we now charge a small submission fee of $3 for part of the year. In January, April, August and November, all submissions are fee-free. During these months, we might close submissions for one or more genres, should the submission maximum be reached. This is done to ensure that our readers are able to read and respond to each submission in a timely manner. 

Poetry

— We are interested in all styles and forms of poetry.

— We ask that writers submit poetry no more than three times per year, with three to five poems in a single submission.

— Please email us to withdraw individual poems. 

Fiction

— We're looking for finished stories that are both whole and surprising.

— Keep longer submissions below 6,000 words. Submit only one piece at a time and no more than three pieces a year.

— Short shorts should be under 1,000 words. You may submit up to three flash pieces in one submission. 

Translation

— We are interested in all styles and forms of writing in translation.

— We ask that writers submit work no more than three times a year, adhering to our guidelines for poetry, fiction and nonfiction (i.e., no more than three to five poems in a single submission and keeping prose below 6,000 words).
— If possible, please include the original piece with your translated submission.

— Please confirm that you have obtained permission, either from author or rights holder, to publish the translation. 

Creative Nonfiction

— We're looking for pieces that surprise us, pieces that push at the corners of the form.

— Keep longer submissions below 6,000 words. Submit only one piece at a time and no more than three pieces a year.

— We do accept flash nonfiction. These should be under 1,000 words. You may submit up to three flash pieces in one submission.

All submissions must be previously unpublished. We request first North America serial rights for any work that we accept. All rights revert to the author upon publication, though we ask that you acknowledge Four Way Review if the work is published elsewhere.

You can withdraw your work using our submissions manager. To withdraw part of a submission, email us at:

fourwayreview (at) gmail [dot] com ( Change (at) to @ and [dot] to . )

We try to respond within 90 days. Please note that our submissions manager is separate from the manager for Four Way Books. We will not respond to manuscript submissions.

We accept submissions through our online submissions manager. Unsolicited email submissions will be discarded unread.

THE BASICS

Submit through our Submissions Manager

Up to 5 poems or 6,000 words

We'll respond within 90 days

Call for Submissions from Writers and Artists in Southern Louisiana: ANTIGRAVITY

ANTIGRAVITY is a monthly magazine published in letter-sized “pony tab” black and white newsprint and distributed as a free publication throughout the New Orleans metro region, with a paid subscription option also offered. We specialize in original content that spotlights New Orleans artists and those passing through. Our coverage also includes politics and social justice issues, food, reviews, opinion pieces, comics, and original photography, focused mainly on the metro New Orleans region and South Louisiana. ANTIGRAVITY is in its 20th year (230+ issues) and comes out the first week of every month.

INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING?

ANTIGRAVITY specializes in hyper-focused, under-documented stories and artists, though we do occasionally cover larger, more high-profile stories and artists. The monthly content of ANTIGRAVITY is largely contributor sourced. We do not usually assign pieces; instead we count on our contributors to present ideas, subjects, artists, etc. that they are specifically interested in.

ANTIGRAVITY pays for content. Our current rates (with more details provided in a Style & Policy Guide) are as follows:

Copy: (includes columns, features, show reviews or extended reviews, etc.): $50—$75 per published page, $150 max.
Reviews: $15 per published review.
Poetry: $25 per published poem.
Photos, comics, and illustrations: $20 to $25 per image (average)
$50+ for covers and full-size images.

More information and submission link here.