Essay Submissions - OPEN
Interstellar Flight Magazine is seeking essays on pop culture, movies, geekery, and scifi/fantasy related topics. Submissions are open year-round.
We want essays on popular culture, movies, books, video games, SFF culture, conventions, and anything else geeky. We love reviews but believe that the goal of criticism should be to know and understand not to like or dislike. The tone of our essays are conversational and accessible, but we do enjoy a good academic debate. We're always interested in hearing from underrepresented and marginalized voices. How you define that is up to you.
Guidelines:
We want essays on popular culture, movies, books, video games, SFF culture, conventions, and anything else geeky. We love reviews but believe that the goal of criticism should be to know and understand not to like or dislike. The tone of our essays are conversational and accessible, but we do enjoy a good academic debate. We're always interested in hearing from underrepresented and marginalized voices. How you define that is up to you.
Guidelines:
- 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). Send us several ideas at once if you like.
- We prefer not to publish articles that only work as a series (we are not a "monthly" or "quarterly" publication, so series columns don't really work for us.) Instead focus on one thing and dive deep into it.
- Reprint essays are fine if they are relevant, but we regret that we cannot pay for reprints at this time.
Call for Flash Fiction from BIPOC - Closed
For the rest of 2020, we’re asking writers to reimagine our world for the better. We’re looking for flash fiction stories from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) writers who re-envision the future.
What were you imagining for 2020 when it began? What's on your apocalypse bingo card for next month? Does it feel like tempting fate too much to ask if our current reality can get any worse OR any better? We invite you to fast forward and tell us how any or all of 2020's chaotic plot lines resolve, get tangled, tied off, or cut. Write us some Alternate Endings to tell around the fire until we get there. Does the fae spell break at 00:00:01 on Jan 1 2021? Is a free roaming space colony in Andromeda still trying to wipe out a sentient mutated Covid-19 200 years from now? Show us our futures in evocative, speculative flash fiction (up to 1,000 words) that responds to what humanity is facing this year. Experiments with story form welcome. We are featuring BIPOC writers for this call and will select one story for each month through the end of 2020. Society needs new blueprints to build from. Show us your Alternate Endings.
Our Guest Editor for this call is Jamileh Jemison.
Optional Donations and Sponsorship
For this call, we're accepting optional donations, 100% of which will go to the Black Lives Matter movement. We are also accepting donations to sponsor a writer. Sponsors can show their support by donating $80 to cover the publication funds for one writer of color. Sponsors will be thanked on our website and we're happy to include a logo and link to your organization or website. Donations are not required to submit. If you don't want to donate, simply put a zero in the donation section.
What were you imagining for 2020 when it began? What's on your apocalypse bingo card for next month? Does it feel like tempting fate too much to ask if our current reality can get any worse OR any better? We invite you to fast forward and tell us how any or all of 2020's chaotic plot lines resolve, get tangled, tied off, or cut. Write us some Alternate Endings to tell around the fire until we get there. Does the fae spell break at 00:00:01 on Jan 1 2021? Is a free roaming space colony in Andromeda still trying to wipe out a sentient mutated Covid-19 200 years from now? Show us our futures in evocative, speculative flash fiction (up to 1,000 words) that responds to what humanity is facing this year. Experiments with story form welcome. We are featuring BIPOC writers for this call and will select one story for each month through the end of 2020. Society needs new blueprints to build from. Show us your Alternate Endings.
Our Guest Editor for this call is Jamileh Jemison.
Optional Donations and Sponsorship
For this call, we're accepting optional donations, 100% of which will go to the Black Lives Matter movement. We are also accepting donations to sponsor a writer. Sponsors can show their support by donating $80 to cover the publication funds for one writer of color. Sponsors will be thanked on our website and we're happy to include a logo and link to your organization or website. Donations are not required to submit. If you don't want to donate, simply put a zero in the donation section.
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.
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.
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.
Our turnaround time around three months. Please query if you haven’t heard from us after 90 days.
Our turnaround time around three months. Please query if you haven’t heard from us after 90 days.
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