Note: only works that were first published in the stated year of eligibility.
What Qualifies as Utopian Speculative Fiction?
Accepted stories will meet most if not all of the following four criteria:
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NOT dystopian: envisions, builds, and sets stories in worlds in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather than in conflict; and/or depict future communities that are decidedly not dystopian, are clearly better than the real world of today, and in which those communities are actively struggling to build a just and equitable utopian world, even if they haven't yet fully reached that goal.
Hopeful: uplifting, leaves the reader with a sense of inspiration, aspiration, and optimism even when that hope is rooted in struggle.
Solutions: stories with a focus on solutions to climate change and the effects of climate change on the planet, ecosystems, and communities, as well as works that focus on solutions to other global social problems and envision futures with new, democratic, participatory, and collaborative political and economic systems.
Speculative: stories can be any from any SciFi/Fantasy type genre, it can be set in the future or in the past or an alternative present as long as it contains a central speculative element and meets the other three criteria. For example, a horror story could be speculative, but might have a hard time fitting the NOT dystopian and hopeful criteria. But if you think your horror story qualifies as utopian, then submit it.
This listing is permanently closed for submissions. This may mean one of several things:
It was always planned to be a limited-time project, such as a one-time anthology, and the limited-time submission window has ended.
The publisher has stated that they are permanently closed, or on hiatus with wording that makes it sound permanent.
The publication website is down in a way that appears to be permanent, and we haven't been able to find a new website for them.
The publication website is not down, but it appears to have been inactive for more than a year.
Market Genres
Genres
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Reprints
Short Story
1000 to 7500 words
1 cent/word
Novelette
7500 to 17500 words
1 cent/word
Novella
17500 to 18000 words
1 cent/word
Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: Yes
Simultaneous Submissions?: Yes
Translations: Original Language Only
Market-Provided Data
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This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. The more data we have the more accurate our
numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances.
Count:
There are 5 completed reports in the past 12 months.
Averages and Boundaries:
Min: 0 | Average: 0.00 | Median: 0 | Max: 0
Responded:
-
Accepted:
-
Rejected:
-(0.00% of rejections are personal)
Rewrites:
-
Dead Letters:
100.00%
Lost/Returned:
-
Never Responded:
100.00%
Withdrawn:
-
Pending:
There are 4 pending responses.
(377 min | 392.75 average | 397 median | 400 max days waiting)
Note: pending statistics may skew high if some users neglect their data. We recommend querying after the time the market suggests to query.