Writing Magazine

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The Baen Memorial Short Story Award for short stories up to 8,000 words on the near future of manned space exploration offers publication online at industry pro rates. Entry is free. The closing date is 1 February. Website: www.baen.com/contestjbmssa

Writing Magazine

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Publishing commercial fiction, London based Joffe Books invites submissions from writers around the world and encourages, ‘authors of colour, LGTB+ authors and differently abled authors from diverse backgrounds to make their voices heard’. The ‘favou

Writing Magazine

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners on the 2021 Locus Awards in June. The Locus, are along with the Hugo Awards the most significant US awards for science fiction and fantasy. The winners were: Science Fiction Novel, Network Ef

Harper's Bazaar India

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Be prepared to laugh-outloud as you follow four geriatrics in an old age home who are determined to investigate a murder. Hilarious and warm, this bestseller will leave you in a good mood. [Penguin] A half-British, half-Indian sorcerer attends a magi

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award is The Principles of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (pictured left), with The Reeves’ Guild, Kyla Jardine, in second. The award was launched last year by Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch in p

Writing Magazine

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Tyche Books is a Canadian small-press specialising in science-fiction and fantasy anthologies, novels, and non-fiction, all available as ebooks and trade paperbacks. The editorial team ‘crave innovative stories that push the boundaries of imagination

The Writer

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All fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if” question, which serves as the premise and drives the plot. But for fantasy author Kij Johnson, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award, the specific genre of speculative fiction adds its

India Today

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by Essa Hansen ORBIT ₹494 (KINDLE); 512 pages The sequel to Nophek Gloss, Azura Ghost is due to be formally published in March 2022, and marks the continuation of one of the most innovative and original contemporary space operas available today. Hans

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

Writing Magazine

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WordFire Press is looking for full-length fantasy novels about portals to publish in late 2022. Novels may be in any fantasy genre except erotica, and should be no longer than 125,000 words. Website: https://wordfirepress.com/call-for-submissions/ Th

NPR

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Bishakh Som's new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.

Writing Magazine

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

Writing Magazine

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Martian is a zine for SF drabbles and the team publish new ones twice a week. Drabbles are very short stories of exactly 100 words (excluding title) and they are tricky to write. Read what’s published here to see how other writers do it. The editoria

Edge

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We often hear complaints that games don’t reflect the real world. To a point, that’s true, but it’s an attitude that can betray snobbery towards science fiction and fantasy. These genres often address contemporary themes through allegory – for childr

NPR

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Elon Musk has been in headlines for trying to buy Twitter, but one Harvard historian says his brand of capitalism goes back to his teen years and a particular reading of science fiction stories.

NPR

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Literary pun purveyor Tom Gauld turns his pen to the foibles of science (and science fiction) in his new comic collection Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, inspired by his scientist grandfather.

Literary Hub

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In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even though the nation’s ideals were supposedly predi

Writing Magazine

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The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2022, from independent publisher Dahlia Books is for fiction up to 3,500 words. Set up in 2017, the prize is for original, unpublished short fiction on any theme or subject. Prizes are £175, £75 and £50, and a l

Guernica Magazine

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The award-winning writer on editing his first anthology, horror versus sci-fi, and the American tradition of voter suppression. The post Victor LaValle: Imagine Downton Abbey, but with Smells appeared first on Guernica.

Writing Magazine

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The winner of Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour will be offered a two-book contract with Joffe Books. In conjunction with bestselling author Dorothy Koomson and literary agent Susan Yearwood, Joffe Books is looking for manuscripts from un

Writing Magazine

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Pipe Wrench is a thought-provoking bimonthly, publishing ‘one core longform story and a constellation of other pieces interpreting or reacting or spring-boarding off it.’ The lead article is 4,000 to 7,000 words, preferably on ‘an idea most readers h

Writing Magazine

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Three Crows Magazine is a quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine that includes short stories, book, film, and video game reviews, as well as interviews with writers and editors of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Editor-in-chief Alex Khlo

Literary Hub

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Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling) dough that will never become bread. Each “rise” is celebrated but ephemeral, exi

Literary Hub

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It’s turning out to be a great year for speculative fiction in translation (SFT). And though as of this writing (June), I’ve already catalogued 51 speculative novels or collections and 30 short stories. Compare this to the end of 2017, when we had a

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics/Young Animal Writer NK Jemisin Artist Jamal Campbell ISSUES 1-3 For a series largely set in the furthest reaches of space, Green Lantern rarely dabbles in the harder side of science fiction – which is what makes

Journal of Alta California

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What is science fiction? The question is trickier than it appears. For all the clichés, the sweeping futuristic sagas, it remains (like all literature) an exploration of inner, as opposed to outer, space. The best, or most resonant, science fiction i

Writing Magazine

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Tiny Fox Press like to publish ‘engaging stories needing a great home’, usually commercial fiction, SF/fantasy, MG/YA in all genres, military and ‘the bizarre’. Currently open to submissions of novels, over 20,000 words but full length preferred, the

The Christian Science Monitor

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Science fiction writers, gazing into the future, envision space-based cargo movers and robots that may eliminate the need for humans to work.

Woman's Day

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“An experimental novel. Beautiful, spare writing.” “One of the best collections of short fiction I’ve read. I am a big Andrew Roff fan.” “Very quirky. Hilarious.” “Debut novel. Deeply moving account of being a carer.” “Debut short story collectio