The Future Fire
Literary Magazine
The Future Fire publishes beautiful and useful fiction and poetry that focuses on the social-political elements of imaginary, futuristic, fantastic, horrifying, surreal or otherwise speculative universes.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: within 7 days*/Editor reported data41 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 6.76%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Pays$10-$20 per piece
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 17500 words max
Max words: 1001
Max words: 17500
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: $ 20 per piece
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Sub Genres: Literary
Poetry
Max lines: 100
Max pieces: 1
Payment: $ 10 per piece
Review
Art
Max pieces: 2
Payment: $ 10 per piece
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
We prefer .docx files, but can also read .doc, .rtf or .odt (query first for any other format), in an easy-to-read font such as Times New Roman/Palatino and using no other formatting than italics. Do not include your name anywhere in the document; we make all decisions based upon anonymised submissions.
Author's rights
Upon acceptance of a story, we shall ask authors to agree to this electronic contract: “You [LEGAL NAME*] of [ADDRESS] grant us, The Future Fire, the non-exclusive right to publish your work [TITLE] by [PEN NAME BYLINE OR PSEUDONYM] on the pages of our website and in the downloadable e-book versions; all other rights to this work belong to you. We shall upon publication make payment of [$20/$10] ([twenty/ten] US dollars) by Paypal to the account [EMAIL ADDRESS]. If we have not published your story within one calendar year of this contract, all rights shall revert to you. You guarantee that this work is your own and that you have the right to grant us the use of it, and that the work contains nothing that breaks copyright or other laws. Any actions breaking such laws will be your sole responsibility. We will print a copyright notice in your name, but we will not register the work with any copyright office on your behalf. You may reprint or adapt the work anywhere in the world, but we would ask as a courtesy that you wait three months after publication and credit us for first appearance.”
Additional info
We are particularly interested in feminist, queer, postcolonial and ecological themes, and writing by under-represented voices (but nobody is required to self-identify, publicly or privately, as any identity).
Tracker statistics
227
Total submissions tracked
41 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
3 days
Fastest response time
146 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 273 days, 276 days
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Djibril al-Ayad
Editor-in-Chief
Regina de Búrca
Associate editor
Valeria Vitale
Associate editor