Tasavvur

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Tasavvur is a magazine dedicated to South Asian and other BIPOC speculative fiction and nonfiction pitches.

Response time info: Roughly three weeks after submissions close

Read the full guidelines at tasavvurnama.com↗

Submission calls

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Open to: Authors must be from a BIPOC community; submissions by non-South Asian authors must have a connection to South Asia or neighboring regions. South Asian-origin authors, neighboring-region authors, and diaspora communities are eligible.

Pitches for critical essays on South Asian speculative fiction, translations of South Asian speculative fiction, and deep dives into under-represented South Asian speculative-fiction traditions; pitches are 250–500 words, with commissioned pieces usually around 2,000 words. Pitches are accepted on a rolling basis.

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Short speculative fiction stories, including experimental forms and structures; 1,000–5,000 words. The page says the Winter 2025 issue window opened November 1, 2024, but gives no closing date.

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