Guidelines at glance

Below are some of the magazines likes and dislikes followed by key guidelines for submitting to our magazine. Once you've read them and you reckon we're a good fit for you please click the green button for full submission guidelines and how to submit.

Content guidance (Things we love, hard sells and hard nos!)

First and above all else SHOW us a world and TELL us a story within it. Your story needs a protagonist, who needs a goal, with motivations. Below are a few other preferences.

We love!!!

Stories that interrogate human potential.

Stories the explore changing human nature. Especially our relationship with the natural world.

Absurdism and comedy.

Anything Kilgore Trout would have written but don’t rip off a Kilgore Trout. We’ll know.

Stories that interrogate the philosophies of emergent technologies

Cli-fi.

Hard sells!!

Stories where any political party or religion take over the world and either save or ruin it.

Romances – as in Girl/Boy/Alien/Robot meets Girl/Boy/Alien/Robot. Remember, if you took the tech out and it’d be a normal love story, it aint for us.

Stories that both begin and end in abject despair.

Hard nos!!

Stories about animal cruelty, rapists, murderers, child abusers, or cannibals - or any other form of cruelty or abuse.

Body horror.

Misery porn.

Robot porn.

Any other sort of Porn.

Guidelines at a Glance

We want:

Science-fiction. Stories in which were the science/technology element removed the plot would not function. We will accept Science-Crossover such as Science-Fantasy, Science-Horror. Science crossed with folklore, legend and myth are also encouraged.

2,000-6000 words. Paid at £75 per story plus free contributor copy (digital and print).

Submissions via email to s ci.fi.ireland.submissions@gmail.com. Please use the email as a cover letter containing – Name, story title, word count and brief writer's bio - including place of birth and where you’re working from right now.

Submissions will only be accepted from writers either born on, or living on, the Island of Ireland.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but do not accept multiple submissions nor do we accept resubmissions/reprints.

Please send only RTF, DOC or DOCX files and stick to standard manuscript format as much as possible. Please do not include identifying information in your manuscript.

Special note on translation: We accept and encourage submissions in Irish, but work should be submitted with an English translation and publication is conditional on the author working with our translations editor and the work being published bilingually.

How to submit