Call for submissions: Strange Horizons — Our Queer Planet
For this special, across all departments we are looking for work that explores intersectional queer imaginaries and experiences around the world, and in particular for work by queer and multiply marginalised writers from outside North America, the UK, and Australia as well as queer indigenous writers from those regions. Our queer planet is not majority-white.
We have a preference for stories and poems that are tied to our (queer) planet: works that take Earth as their setting (whether in the past, or the future, or an alternate reality), or works that explore a diaspora from Earth. We are not looking for secondary-world fantasies for this special. (Send us your secondary-world queer fantasies to consider forother months!)
But most of all we want your stories, from your experience; we want to see the possibilities of speculative literature through your eyes. We do not (nor do we expect you to) deny the difficulty of many queer lives, past and present, but we are not looking to reiterate the familiar, often tragic narratives of queerness that have so often confined our stories.
Our definition of queerness is as varied as the people to whom it applies: gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, intersex, transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, and all the unmapped spaces around and between these identities. If you’re queer and we didn’t name you, your perspective is welcome.
We know that queerness is not the sole definition of your identity, and welcome stories that explore the intersections of queerness with race, class, gender, disability, neurodiversity, and other common axes of marginalisation.
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they’re also looking for poetry, non-fic, roundtable proposals, etc
Help us make an amazing thing!
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