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.

The Future Fire (TFF) is an online magazine dedicated to publishing speculative fiction that emphasizes social and political themes. Established in 2005, it releases issues quarterly, featuring stories, poems, and art that explore progressive speculative fiction, including feminist, queer, ecological, and cyberpunk narratives. (futurefire.net)

The magazine is managed by an international editorial team:

- **Djibril al-Ayad**: General Editor
- **Regina de Búrca**: Associate Editor
- **Valeria Vitale**: Associate Editor; co-editor of TFF-X (2015); guest editor of Fae Visions of the Mediterranean (2016) and Noir Fire (2022)
- **M.L. Clark**: Assistant Editor
- **Cécile Matthey**: Assistant Editor and In-house Artist; co-editor of TFF-X (2015)
- **Brian Olszewski**: Copyeditor
- **Hûw Steer**: Copyeditor
- **Kathryn Allan**: Guest Editor of Accessing the Future (2015); Emerita Associate Editor
- **Emma Bridges**: Guest Editor of Making Monsters (2018); Emerita Assistant Editor
- **Fabio Fernandes**: Guest Editor of We See a Different Frontier (2013)
- **Lori Selke**: Guest Editor of Outlaw Bodies (2012)

TFF has also published several anthologies under the imprint Futurefire.net Publications:

- **Outlaw Bodies** (2012): Co-edited by Lori Selke, focusing on themes of forbidden or constrained bodies, disability, feminism, and trans issues.
- **We See a Different Frontier** (2013): Co-edited with Fabio Fernandes, featuring speculative fiction from underrepresented voices.
- **Accessing the Future** (2015): Co-edited by Kathryn Allan, exploring themes of disability and technology.
- **TFF-X** (2015): Co-edited by Djibril al-Ayad, Cécile Matthey, and Valeria Vitale, celebrating ten years of TFF.
- **Fae Visions of the Mediterranean** (2016): Edited by Valeria Vitale and Djibril al-Ayad, focusing on Mediterranean folklore.
- **Making Monsters** (2018): Co-edited by Emma Bridges, examining classical monsters in modern contexts.
- **Noir Fire** (2022): Co-edited by Valeria Vitale, a speculative noir anthology.

The magazine is open to submissions of original and reprinted speculative fiction, poetry, and art that align with its focus on social-political elements in speculative universes. It particularly welcomes works with feminist, queer, postcolonial, and ecological themes, and writing by underrepresented voices. (futurefire.net)

For more information or to submit your work, visit their website at www.futurefire.net.

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