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.
Book Submissions
Call for Nonfiction Proposals - Open
Interstellar Flight Press is accepting submissions of book-length nonfiction manuscripts. We invite scholars of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres to submit proposals via our submission form. Our areas of focus are: Books about SFF genres, writing speculative fiction, poetry, film, comics, pop culture, diverse and marginalized voices, feminism, and disability, as long as these topics intersect with speculative genres. We are very interested in books from researchers outside the U.S. We also welcome collections of essays. Authors should be experienced in the field of SFF research.
Guidelines:
Interstellar Flight Press is accepting submissions of book-length nonfiction manuscripts. We invite scholars of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres to submit proposals via our submission form. Our areas of focus are: Books about SFF genres, writing speculative fiction, poetry, film, comics, pop culture, diverse and marginalized voices, feminism, and disability, as long as these topics intersect with speculative genres. We are very interested in books from researchers outside the U.S. We also welcome collections of essays. Authors should be experienced in the field of SFF research.
Guidelines:
- Full-length books 30,000-125,000 words.
- Please use our Proposal Format to prepare your submission.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Multiple submissions are allowed.
- If your book is in-progress, please include a delivery schedule in your proposal.
Call for BIPOC Novellas - Open
Interstellar Flight Press will open to novella submissions from BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) authors starting 2/15/21 through 6/30/21.
Our Guest Editor for this call is Premee Mohamed. Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a Social Media Manager and Associate Editor for the short audio science fiction venue Escape Pod, and was a Capital City Press Featured Writer for 2019/2020 with the Edmonton Public Library. Her short fiction has appeared in both print and audio in a variety of venues, including Analog, Escape Pod, Augur, Nightmare Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, and PodCastle. Solicited anthology and other project appearances include Drabblecast, A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, Jo Walton's New Decameron, and others. In 2017 she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her story "Willing" (Third Flatiron Press). Her debut novel, Beneath the Rising, is out now from Solaris Books, with the sequel A Broken Darkness due out in 2021. Her novellas being published in 2021 include These Lifeless Things (Solaris Books), And What Can We Offer You Tonight (Neon Hemlock), and The Annual Migration of Clouds (ECW Press). In her spare time, she also paints and occasionally does pen and ink illustration. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.
We are looking for:
We aim to get a response to authors within 90 days. If you haven’t heard from us in 90 days, please send a query. If we decide to hold your submission for review, you will receive a notification via email, and this may mean a longer response time, as we will hold selected novellas until after the submission call ends, at which point our Guest Editor will review them.
Interstellar Flight Press will open to novella submissions from BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) authors starting 2/15/21 through 6/30/21.
Our Guest Editor for this call is Premee Mohamed. Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a Social Media Manager and Associate Editor for the short audio science fiction venue Escape Pod, and was a Capital City Press Featured Writer for 2019/2020 with the Edmonton Public Library. Her short fiction has appeared in both print and audio in a variety of venues, including Analog, Escape Pod, Augur, Nightmare Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, and PodCastle. Solicited anthology and other project appearances include Drabblecast, A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, Jo Walton's New Decameron, and others. In 2017 she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her story "Willing" (Third Flatiron Press). Her debut novel, Beneath the Rising, is out now from Solaris Books, with the sequel A Broken Darkness due out in 2021. Her novellas being published in 2021 include These Lifeless Things (Solaris Books), And What Can We Offer You Tonight (Neon Hemlock), and The Annual Migration of Clouds (ECW Press). In her spare time, she also paints and occasionally does pen and ink illustration. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.
We are looking for:
- Fiction Novellas 17,500 - 40,000 words. (Submissions within 5,000 words of this range are okay, but we may ask you to edit the work to fit this word range if it is accepted.)
- 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 if they are speculative in some way.
- We will consider both standalone novellas and series (Please submit the first book in a series only).
- By BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color.) This definition is globally inclusive (people of color from anywhere in the world are welcome to submit) and applies to mixed/biracial authors.
- Read our Guest Editor's post for more details on what she would like to see for this call: And Now, We Keep the Gate
- Please send complete manuscripts (your entire novella) in .doc or .docx formats, formatted in Standard Manuscript Format with no identifying information in the document. This means:
- 12-point font.
- Times New Roman, Courier, or similar font.
- Double spaced.
- Numbered pages.
- Your name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript or in the title of the document. If your name appears in the manuscript, we will remove it before sending it to our readers.
- Please include a synopsis on the first page of your manuscript, max 500 words.
- We require a cover letter with bio and any previous publications. Be sure to include links to your website and social media so we can get to know you. The cover letter should be in the submission form, not in the manuscript document.
- Simultaneous and multiple submissions are fine, just let us know if you need to withdraw. Novellas should be previously unpublished. If your work has appeared in another language and you hold English rights, please feel free to submit the work in English, however, you must hold First World English rights.
- Agented submissions are welcome. If you are an agent, please send us an email or submit via the submission form.
- 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 aim to get a response to authors within 90 days. If you haven’t heard from us in 90 days, please send a query. If we decide to hold your submission for review, you will receive a notification via email, and this may mean a longer response time, as we will hold selected novellas until after the submission call ends, at which point our Guest Editor will review them.
Call for Flash Fiction from BIPOC - Closed
Our 2020 Alternate Endings Submission call has closed. You can read the accepted pieces for this call on our website. Our Guest Editor for this call was Jamileh Jemison.
Our 2020 Alternate Endings Submission call has closed. You can read the accepted pieces for this call on our website. Our Guest Editor for this call was Jamileh Jemison.
Chapbooks & Poetry Collections - Closed
Interstellar Flight Press is currently closed to poetry book submissions. Our Guest Editor for this call was Saba Razvi. All submissions from our 2019 call have been responded to.
Interstellar Flight Press is currently closed to poetry book submissions. Our Guest Editor for this call was Saba Razvi. All submissions from our 2019 call have been responded to.
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