Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Call
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume Three anthology is open to submissions until March 31, 2024, covering works originally published in 2023. The book will be published in late 2024 by Caezik SF & Fantasy. Editors for this volume are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Chinaza Eziaghighala.
We welcome submissions of all reprint works of speculative fiction, from any genres and sub genres, including fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction, horror and genre blends, up to 17,500 words, published by Africans or authors of African descent in 2023. This means all flash, short story, and novelette fiction is eligible, if the rest of the parameters are met.
Send your submissions as a Word document file with your name, country of origin, email address, word length, first publication date and venue, to yearsbestafricansfv3@gmail.com
We will be receiving submissions until midnight 31 March 2024, US Pacific time.
Authors will be paid 2c per word in USD for a reprint story. Poems will be paid a flat rate of $17.00.
For more, see the call on the website.
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