Essay Submissions - OPEN
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.
Call for Flash Fiction from BIPOC - OPEN
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.
Submissions will be open June 5, 2020 - *September 1, 2020. UPDATE: We have extended the deadline for this call.
What we want:
Guidelines:
Payment and Publication
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.
Submissions will be open June 5, 2020 - *September 1, 2020. UPDATE: We have extended the deadline for this call.
What we want:
- Previously unpublished flash fiction (up to 1,000 words). You may submit up to 3 pieces.
- Speculative genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, or any interpretation of these that fits the theme.
- By writers of color (please let us know how you’d like to be identified in your cover letter.)
- Collaborative pieces by multiple writers are welcome. In the case of multiple writers, payment will be split between collaborators.
- We strongly encourage submissions from underrepresented voices including but not limited to women, femmes, non-binary, and LGBTQIA authors, as well as writers with disabilities.
Guidelines:
- Please send your complete story in Standard Manuscript Format as a .doc or .docx. If submitting multiple pieces, please include all 3 pieces in your document.
- 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.
- All work should be original and previously unpublished. Simultaneous and multiple submissions (up to 3 pieces) are fine, just let us know if you need to withdraw.
- Please include a content warning if your piece contains traumatic imagery. We understand that the subject at hand may lend itself to a discussion of violence but we are never interested in stories that contain graphic depictions of rape, sexual assault, violence against women/children, violence/abuse of people with disabilities, violence/abuse of animals.
Payment and Publication
- Stories will be published on Interstellar Flight Magazine, a Medium publication. Authors will need to create a Medium profile.
- We ask for first world English electronic rights and nonexclusive anthology rights.
- Payment is $80 USD per piece, delivered within 30 days of publication via Paypal.
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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