Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Anthology Series
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Last checkedYear’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction is a reprint anthology series seeking eligible Canadian fantasy and science fiction stories and poems first published in the specified prior year.
Response time info: ~149 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder
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Volume Four is currently closed; Volume Five, the best of 2026, will open in Fall 2026. Seeks fantasy and science fiction fiction first published in 2025 for Volume Four, in standard manuscript format as DOC, DOCX, or RTF via Google Form. Fiction is typically 1,500–7,500 words; under 1,200 or over 9,000 words is a hard sell. Reprints only; English-language works, including translations from French sought by the editor. Authors must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or Canadians living abroad. Selected fiction receives 0.01 CAD per word for non-exclusive world English reprint rights.
Volume Four is currently closed; Volume Five, the best of 2026, will open in Fall 2026. Seeks fantasy and science fiction poems first published in 2025 for Volume Four, submitted via Google Form. Poems may be any length, though very short poems such as haiku are a hard sell. Reprints only; English-language works, including translations from French sought by the editor. Authors must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or Canadians living abroad. Selected poetry receives a $10 CAD reprint fee.
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