Deadline: January 31st, 2026
Payment: £75
Theme: Science Fiction where if the science/technology element was removed the plot would not function
Note: To submit, you must be living on, or were born on, the Island of Ireland
NEXT OPEN SUBMISSION WINDOW
1ST DECEMBER – 31ST JANUARY.
GUIDELINES AT A GLANCE
Below are some of the magazines likes and dislikes followed by key guidelines for submitting to our magazine. Once you’ve read them and you reckon we’re a good fit for you please click the green button for full submission guidelines and how to submit.
Content guidance (Things we love, hard sells and hard nos!)
First and above all else SHOW us a world and TELL us a story within it. Your story needs a protagonist, who needs a goal, with motivations. Below are a few other preferences.
We love!!!
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Stories that interrogate human potential.
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Stories the explore changing human nature. Especially our relationship with the natural world.
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Romance!! We’re here for a love story but please make sure there’s a piece of tech/science at the heart of story; such as in the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero”.
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Anything Kilgore Trout would have written but don’t rip off a Kilgore Trout. We’ll know.
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Stories that interrogate the philosophies of emergent technologies
Hard sells!!
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Stories where any political party or religion take over the world and either save or ruin it.
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Stories that both begin and end in abject despair.
Hard nos!!
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Stories about animal cruelty, rapists, murderers, child abusers, cannibals – or any other extreme form of cruelty or abuse.
Guidelines at a Glance
We want:
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Science-fiction. Stories in which were the science/technology element removed the plot would not function. We will accept Science-Crossover such as Science-Fantasy, Science-Horror. Science crossed with folklore, legend and myth are also encouraged.
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2,000-6000 words. Paid at £75 per story plus free contributor copy (digital and print).
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Submissions via email to s[email protected] – Please use the email as a cover letter containing: Name, story title, word count and brief writer’s bio – including place of birth and where you’re working from right now.
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Sci-Fi Ireland is looking for submissions from new and established writers from as diverse and inclusive a range of demographics as possible; however, submissions will only be accepted from writers 18 years and older who are either living on, or were born on, the Island of Ireland.
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We accept simultaneous submissions, but do not accept multiple submissions nor do we accept resubmissions/reprints.
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Please send only RTF, DOC or DOCX files and stick to standard manuscript format as much as possible. Please do not include identifying information in your manuscript.
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Special note on translation: We accept and encourage submissions in Irish, but work should be submitted with an English translation and publication is conditional on the author working with our translations editor and the work being published bilingually.
Via: Sci-Fi Ireland.
