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

Call for Novellas
Interstellar Flight Press will be open for submissions of speculative novellas from May 15-September 15. We are looking for:
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  • Fiction Novellas 17,500–40,000 words.
  • Speculative genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural, Weird, Mystery/Thrillers or any combination of the above. Hybrids or difficult to categorize novellas are welcome.
  • Young Adult novellas are okay as long as they are speculative in some way.
  • We will consider both standalone novellas and series (Please submit the first book in a series only).

Guidelines:
  • Please send complete manuscripts (your entire novella) in .doc or .docx formats, formatted in Standard Manuscript Format.
  • Please include a synopsis on the first page of your manuscript, max 500 words.
  • We require a cover letter with bio. Be sure to include links to your website and social media so we can get to know you.
  • Simultaneous and multiple submissions are fine, just let us know if you need to withdraw. Novellas should be previously unpublished.
  • Agented submissions are welcome. If you’re an agent, please send us an email or submit via the submission form.
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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.

All of our books receive a full marketing plan and are printed in hardcover and paperback formats, as well as distribution as eBook and audiobook. We consider publishing a collaboration and pay 40% of all Publisher’s Net Receipts to the author as royalties. Depending on the project, we may also offer an advance. We ask for exclusive world English rights, audio rights, and some subsidiary rights. We believe in transparency. If you would like to see a sample of our contract, please email us at contact (at) interstellarflightpress (dot) com.

Our turnaround time around three months. Please query if you haven’t heard from us after 90 days.