Essay Submissions - OPEN
*While submissions are always open to the magazine, we do take a small break in December to catch up on year-end things, so please note that time-sensitive articles should be for topics timely to January/February releases.
Interstellar Flight Magazine is seeking essays on pop culture, movies, geekery, and scifi/fantasy related topics.
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.
- 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.
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, 2019. We are looking for:
Guidelines:
Interstellar Flight Press will be open for submissions of speculative novellas from May 15-September 15, 2019. We are looking for:
- 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.
Chapbooks & Poetry Collections - Opens 9/15
Saba Syed Razvi, Guest Editor, Poetry
Interstellar Flight Press will be open for chapbook and full-length speculative poetry books from September 15 – January 1, 2020. We are beyond thrilled that this call will feature a guest editor, who will be reading submissions that are passed up to the editors from slush readers.
Guest Editor
Saba Syed Razvi is the author of the Elgin Award-nominated collection In the Crocodile Gardens (Agape Editions) and the collection heliophobia (Finishing Line Press), which appeared on the preliminary ballot for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry, as well as the chapbooks Limerence & Lux (Chax Press), Of the Divining and the Dead (Finishing Line Press), and Beside the Muezzin’s Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in several literary journals, as well as in anthologies such as Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War Faith and Sexuality, The Loudest Voice Anthology, The Liddell Book of Poetry, Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, The Rhysling Anthology, The Machine Dreams Zine, HWA Poetry Showcase, and Dreamspinning. Her poems have been nominated for the Elgin Award, the Bettering American Poetry Awards, The Best of the Net Award, the Rhysling Award, and have received a 2015 Independent Best American Poetry Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Houston in Victoria, TX, where in addition to working on scholarly research on interfaces between contemporary poetry and science, on mysticism in speculative and horror literature, she is writing new poems and fiction.
We are looking for:
Guidelines:
Guest Editor
Saba Syed Razvi is the author of the Elgin Award-nominated collection In the Crocodile Gardens (Agape Editions) and the collection heliophobia (Finishing Line Press), which appeared on the preliminary ballot for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry, as well as the chapbooks Limerence & Lux (Chax Press), Of the Divining and the Dead (Finishing Line Press), and Beside the Muezzin’s Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have appeared in several literary journals, as well as in anthologies such as Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War Faith and Sexuality, The Loudest Voice Anthology, The Liddell Book of Poetry, Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, The Rhysling Anthology, The Machine Dreams Zine, HWA Poetry Showcase, and Dreamspinning. Her poems have been nominated for the Elgin Award, the Bettering American Poetry Awards, The Best of the Net Award, the Rhysling Award, and have received a 2015 Independent Best American Poetry Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Houston in Victoria, TX, where in addition to working on scholarly research on interfaces between contemporary poetry and science, on mysticism in speculative and horror literature, she is writing new poems and fiction.
We are looking for:
- Chapbooks 15-39 pages in length
- Full-Length poetry books 40+ pages (We are unlikely to take works over 120 pages.)
- We only publish speculative genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural, Weird, Surrealism, or any combination of the above. We like Suzette Haden Elgin's definition of speculative poetry as "about a reality that is in some way different than the existing reality."
- Hybrids or difficult to categorize collections are welcome. This includes prose poetry, visual poetry, erasure/blackouts, found poetry, cross- and multi-genre works.
- Collaborative manuscripts are welcome, including visual/ekphrastic works. Both collaborators must be able and willing to sign a contract for publication. (We will make an exception for public domain works, but please cite your sources.)
Guidelines:
- Please send complete manuscripts (your entire book of poetry) in .doc, .docx, or .pdf formats. For non-hybrid works, use 12pt Times New Roman font and start each new poem on a new page.
- 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.
- Include an acknowledgements page that lists previous publications: individual pieces are fine, but the manuscript as a whole should be previously unpublished
- Simultaneous and multiple submissions are fine, just let us know if you need to withdraw.
- Agented submissions are welcome. If you’re 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.
All of our fiction books receive a full marketing plan and are printed in hardcover and paperback formats, as well as distribution as eBook and audiobook. All poetry books receive a full marketing plan and are printed in hardcover and paperback formats. When possible, books will also receive eBook versions, but we acknowledge that not all poetry manuscripts are optimal for digital formats (such as visual or hybrid collections).
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.
All of our fiction books receive a full marketing plan and are printed in hardcover and paperback formats, as well as distribution as eBook and audiobook. All poetry books receive a full marketing plan and are printed in hardcover and paperback formats. When possible, books will also receive eBook versions, but we acknowledge that not all poetry manuscripts are optimal for digital formats (such as visual or hybrid collections).
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.
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