We’re thrilled to announce the return of our beloved chapbook series. Futures: A Science Fiction Series, invites submissions from writers speculating about the future in inventive, fascinating, and yes, political short fiction. Six stories will be selected which will be published and made available as individual chapbooks and as part of a combined box set.
The title Futures is a call-in; we seek fiction that considers the audacious possibilities of the coming times: in the fearful uncertainty of tech-feudalism, the escalation of digital colonies, the blurring lines between reality and imagined constructs, and radical reimagination of our social and political structures. We want stories tackling both dystopian and utopian possibilities, located in the many subgenres that categorize sci-fi: afrofuturism, climate fiction, cyberpunk, time travel, and more, that stir the boundaries of imagination, but always stories that are political, speak for the marginalized against autocratic structures of money, military might, racial and ethnic superiority, and colonialism.
We are looking for unpublished short stories 5000-15000 words. Contributors will be paid a $500 flat fee for their selected story and receive author copies two box sets at the time of publication.
