June 2026
We've finished selecting stories from the January submission window, and will be open to fiction submissions again for the month of July, considering stories of up to 10,000 words. We accepted eight stories (out of 282 submissions received), two by authors we've published before and at least one that will be another author's first fiction publication. Four are by authors who live outside the US: in Canada, France, or Nigeria. Five are science fiction (though three of these include supernatural elements), two are fantasy, and one is magic realism. Popular themes included AI, post-apocalyptic (usually nuclear or climate change rather than Biblical), and euthanasia. We're happy to be seeing more science fiction these days, and also to see more submissions from authors in Africa, Asia, and South America. Authors sometimes ask what we're looking for. Perhaps the best answer is, "something we didn't know we wanted until we saw it"; which, admittedly, isn...
