Specusphere

Submission Guidelines

We will publish feature articles, opinions, reports, reviews of any kind, flash fiction, poetry and art. At this stage we cannot pay for your contributions. Our style guide is available for download.

Please subscribe to our free email bulletin before submitting articles. Please also ensure you are listed on our directory.

Fiction and poetry: maximum length is 1000 words Non-fiction: No limits but a reasonable yardstick is 2000 words

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Games and Art: Amanda Greenslade
New Age: Shayne Hall
Everything else: Stephen Thompson

The magazine has no deadlines; it is continuously updated. Once an article is ready for publication it will be added to the website. Each article will be shown for at least a month.

* Articles remain the copyright of the author.
* Acceptance of the work gives the publishers permission to use the article in the specusphere website.
* The editors reserve the right to edit material without consultation.
* The author has the right to withdraw the article at any time. We undertake to comply with such a request within 30 days.

Fiction and Poetry

We will publish:

Prose whose intention is to use scientific, fantastical or uncanny elements as an essential part of its character.

It includes experimental, alternative, conjectural as well as magical, futurist and supernatural. It encompasses all the traditional science fiction, fantasy and horror sub-genres, but it also includes things like Crime Scene Investigation, Kafka's Metamorphosis, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Sherlock Holmes, magic realism and urban fantasy.

Non-fiction

We will consider almost anything. All we ask is for it to be interesting, entertaining and cohesive. And, of course, it must have some connection with speculative fiction.

Perhaps it is the fashions of Lord of the Rings, the sex life of Martian rock urchins, or something practical like introductory sword making. It could be politics, economics or anthropology, it might be personal opinion, a fan report or an announcement. We don't care. If it engages an aspect of speculative fiction, it will be considered.

Categories of Speculative interest - examples only

Books - Conspiracy theories, ufos, etc - Fandom and conventions - Film and Television: reviews, screenwriting, news - Games reviews and news - Humour - Interviews with public figures - Legends and Fairy Tales - Literature and the fantastic - Medieval warfare, life, swordsmanship, fashions - Music - New Age - Performance - Personal experiences of the fantastic - Profiles/interviews of people in the industry - Publishing news - Reading - Religion - Science - Society - Strange general news items - Supernatural - Technology -Visual arts - Web watch: keeping an eye on zines, websites or email lists - Writing

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