Futurist Letters

Open now for fiction and nonfiction.

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Futurist Letters is an independent publication seeking essays and short fiction, with a focus on thoughtful, forward-looking topics and clear prose.

Response time info: Accepted entrants will be notified within two weeks of submission. We will probably only respond if we are interested in the work.

Read the full guidelines at futuristletters.com↗

Submission calls

fictionPays: $40 per accepted work

Short fiction with sparse, clear, evocative prose; not exclusively science fiction but open to it; 400-3,000 words; Southern and Western tales may be submitted under the Double Dealer label.

nonfictionPays: $40 per accepted work

Essays on any subject, especially civic development, infrastructure, politics, energy, history, technology, economics, media, literature, and entertainment; should describe the present or past and point toward the future; 400-2,000 words; pitches also accepted.

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