Limited Demographic: current or former sex workers

What does sex work look like on a Mars colony, in a utopian solarpunk community, or a radically different, far-future Earth? What are street workers like in an urban fantasy setting? What does a magic brothel look like? How do you sugar when you’re a sentient cloud of mist? What role does sex work play in futuristic or divergent timelines?
Working Girls Press is excited to announce Liquid Silver, an anthology of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy written by sex workers. Edited by Mia Walsch, Liquid Silver promises to be an anthology unlike any other and seeks to feature an array of new voices in the sex worker literary world. So many sex workers are nerds scattered throughout brothels, strip joints and hostess clubs, reading doorstopper fantasy books between bookings or scribbling sentences about space in the notebooks they stash in their lockers. Sex workers across the globe also think critically and imaginatively about what the world could look like in the future, on different planets, in alternate realities, and we want to create a space for them to bring these thoughts to life.
We’re looking for short speculative stories of 1,000-5,000 words written by current or former sex workers. Your piece can contain depictions of sex work and sex workers, and explore the idea of centering or challenging sex work narratives in science and speculative fiction. We’re seeking speculative fiction, science fiction (hard and soft), fantasy (no sword and sorcery please), apocalyptic, horror, dystopian, slipstream, cli-fi, cyberpunk, and anything weird.