Essay Submissions - OPEN

Interstellar Flight Magazine is seeking essays on pop culture, movies, geekery, and scifi/fantasy related topics. ​
  • Essays should be 250-1500 words.
  • Please submit in .doc, .docx, or .rtf form.
  • Essays should be timely, i.e. that movie you just saw and loved/hated, a book that just came out, or a current topic of discussion online. 
  • Please include links as hyperlinks in your document. Please do not include images (Tweet embeds are fine). 
  • You may also submit pitches (max 100 words).
  • Reprint essays are fine if they are relevant, but we regret that we cannot pay for reprints at this time.
Payment is $15 on publication. We regret that we are only able to make payments via Paypal at this time. Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let us know if you need to withdraw. Articles are published under First North American Rights and may be provided as members-only content on a future Patreon page. (We'll let you know if we'd like to use your essay there). If accepted, writers will be asked to create a Medium profile. Submissions are only accepted through the submission form. Please do not email submissions.

What we like: 

We're big fans of io9, Wired, Tor.com, Electric Literature, Book Riot, and Locus Mag. We want essays on popular culture, movies, books, video games, SFF culture, conventions, and anything else geeky. We'd love to see a focus on resistance, feminism, and edgy topics. We're always interested in hearing from underrepresented and marginalized voices. How you define that is up to you.

Submissions are open year-round. 


Book Submissions - Closed

Call for Novellas - Closed
Interstellar Flight Press is currently closed to novella submissions. Our last novella submission call was in 2019 and all responses have been sent to authors who submitted work. 
​Chapbooks & Poetry Collections - Closed​
Interstellar Flight Press is currently closed to poetry book submissions. We are finalizing our selections from our 2019 submission call, featuring guest editor Saba Syed Razvi and will update this page when all responses have been sent. ​
We are keen to publish new authors as well as to hear from more established authors. As always, we love hearing from authors from underrepresented backgrounds and marginalized communities. We are always accepting submissions from agents. Send us an email to contact (at) interstellarflightpress (dot) com with a summary of the project and a copy of the manuscript. 
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Our turnaround time around three months. Please query if you haven’t heard from us after 90 days.
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