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Futurismic re-opens to fiction submissions!

Yes indeed – you enquired, cajoled and begged, and the day has finally arrived – Futurismic is open to fiction submissions once again!

Chris East, our hard-working Fiction Editor, is a busy man – and with the submissions coming in he’s going to be even more busy than usual. So please be considerate: read the entirety of the Guidelines page thoroughly – twice – and check your story is a good fit before clicking through to the submissions webform (linked from the Guidelines page).

That way you save Chris time and save yourself from a rejection you didn’t need to get, right? Right!

Also, a few words on file formatting. Three words, actually, or rather two words and an acronym:

RTF files only!

The webform shouldn’t let you upload anything else; if you manage to subvert the process, your submission will just be deleted anyway, so just convert in your favourite word processor package first.

And finally – we will ONLY accept fiction submissions through the webform. All attempted submissions by regular email, comment fields, Twitter, psychic projection, good old-fashioned snail-mail or any other channels WILL BE IGNORED AND DELETED/DESTROYED UNREAD AND UNREPLIED TO.

OK, with all that out of the way, get to work! Do you think you can beat Leonard Richardson‘s 37-deep comments thread? Because that’s the caliber of work we’re looking for – and we’re looking forward to your submissions!

Get Your Futurismic Stories Ready

As Paul recently announced, Futurismic fiction is making a comeback soon. After long hiatus, this March will see the return of monthly short stories here at the site!

I’m sure there are plenty of hungry science fiction writers out there curious about whether we’re going to be reading again soon. We do still have some stories in stock, but also intend to start looking for new material come April 1st. (And that’s no prank!)

If you’re interested in submitting, please review our guidelines, and if you really want to get on my good side, this essay I wrote a while back, to get an idea of the kind of stuff we’d like to see. I think they’re pretty self explanatory documents, but you’d be amazed how many off-target submissions we receive. Save yourself, and us, some time by reading the guidelines!

Again, we’re not open yet–but we will be soon. So get those new stories ready; we look forward to seeing your work!