What's most interesting about any submissions period for us is taking a small step back and having a look at the stories in a broader sense to see what patterns emerged, and getting a feel for what it is that writers are being drawn to and/or like to explore in their work.

Not a short story, not a novel, somewhere delightfully in between. Enough time for worldbuilding but no time for fluff. When you don’t know what to read but you know you want something fast, dive into these novellas.

I claim urban fantasy status for all hyperreal, superhuman spy movies based on comic books. I mean, Charlize Theron throwing that “for Queen and country” crap out the window and playing a scrappy, sapphic, cool Mi6 agent who lives by her own rules and doesn’t die? Come and get me.

Not everyone loves short stories. They don’t give you as much time for worldbuilding and the payoff can sometimes feel gimmicky. It is an horrendously difficult art form, but when it’s done well, they are breathtaking slices of wonder, horror and delight.

What Julia Armfield does in this novel is something that we deeply enjoy no matter the genre: exploring the ways a relationship might be impacted by changing needs, wants, bodies, and perspectives.

Who is pushing the boundaries of literary Sapphic Spec Fic? These are books where queerness informs, guides, and infuses the narrative. They incorporate difference, challenge political realities, fight disinformation, investigate heartache, and explore the brutality of consequences.

Supernatural creatures, magical powers, hot heroes, dark forces, friends, foes, mayhem, people having sex with literally anything that moves, twisted beyond belief Celtic and Norse mythology. It’s all here.

Imagine the Salem witch trials ended in a treaty where witches go free from persecution if they sign up for the army and defend the country? In this matriarchal world, women rule and kick ass, and queerness abounds.