Metastellar Open for Fall 2023 Flash Fiction Submissions Oct 1st
Reading Time: 2 minutes The fall 2023 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
Flash Fiction Submissions Open March 1
Reading Time: 2 minutes The spring 2023 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on March 1 and closes at midnight on March 31.
Fall 2022 Call for Submissions Opens October 1st
Reading Time: 2 minutes The fall 2022 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form. …
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Flash fiction submissions start Mar. 1
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our official round of short story submissions begins March 1 and ends March 31.
Fall 2021 submission period closes with more than 400 submissions
Reading Time: < 1 minute MetaStellar’s open submission period for fall 2021 has officially ended. This was our best cycle for submissions yet, receiving over 400 stories in 31 days.
Renna’s Crossing
Reading Time: 25 minutes The first part of a contemporary fantasy story for young and new adults. Sixteen-year-old Renna Porter and Job, her mysterious tutor in witchcraft, race to a magical sanctuary deep in the Adirondacks, pursued by a demon hunting down the last of Renna’s bloodline.
Spring submission winners announced
Reading Time: 6 minutes The results of MetaStellar’s first submission cycle of 2021 are in, and we at MetaStellar are thrilled to announce the success of our second original fiction submission cycle.
Roll for Narrative: An Interview with Spencer Campbell, Making Sci-Fi Playable on Your Table
Reading Time: 11 minutes I sat down digitally with Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs to talk about his new tabletop roleplaying game FRAME, currently gearing up for a Kickstarter campaign later this month. I wanted to learn where the game’s concept came from and how Spencer drew upon the sci fi genre to build a speculative fiction narrative within the medium of a roleplaying game.
Flash fiction submissions due April 1
Reading Time: 2 minutes The spring flash fiction submission cycle opens today. Stories can be submitted anytime from now until April 1, 2021.
‘The Girl Who Owned A City’ Asks What Would Happen if Only Children Survived a Pandemic
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps our contemporary crises brought it back into my mind, as the events of the book take place in the wake of a devastating pandemic that has swept across America, sparing only those under the age of twelve.
Flash fiction submissions due Nov. 1
Reading Time: 2 minutes Flash fiction submission deadline is November 1.