Call for submissions: Accessing the Future

[sasha_feather]

Accessing the Future anthology is accepting short fiction submissions, and is paying pro rates (6 cents a word). Deadline November 30.

Details at The Future Fire.

We want stories that place emphasis on intersectional narratives (rejection of, undoing, and speaking against ableist, heteronormative, racist, cissexist, and classist constructions) and that are informed by an understanding of disability issues and politics at individual and institutional levels. We want to read stories from writers that think critically about how prosthetic technologies, new virtual and physical environments, and genetic modifications will impact human bodies, our communities, and planet.

Comments

[davidgillon]

We will not accept

Stories of “cure” (or where disability exists as a condition to be “fixed,” erased through genetic engineering, etc.)
Depictions of people with disabilities as “extra special,” “magical,” or “inspirational” because of their disability.
Stories that generally reproduce today’s dominant reductionist viewpoints of disability as a fixed identity and a problem to be solved.
Any story that addresses disability in a realistic and “positive” way but contains any element that is racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise insulting or harmful to other marginalized identities.

Love it! (I was meaning to hunt these down this weekend anyway!)

[sasha_feather]

Yes I think this will be a great anthology!