Balaclava Books will soon be seeking submissions for a series of 2026 anthologies. Further details and submission information will be forthcoming…
A fiction anthology about the halfway point between where were are now and what you consider a just society. Short stories, flash fiction, narrative poetry, one-act plays, and short high-contrast sequential art (comics) accepted. I am not looking for political theory or commentary, just short and readable works of fiction that you consider plausible and entertaining. Solar punk is quite welcome, just make sure to keep it grounded in showing us a world that could become real if people cared to create it, ditto for sci-fi. No magic or fantasy. The world you show us should not be perfect, perhaps it involves a conflict between the forces for progress and those fighting against it, but all stories should start at a halfway point toward a better world and where we are now; they should be fairly optimistic that we’ll get there in the end. International, indigenous, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and traditionally underrepresented authors strongly encouraged to apply. Submission details coming soon!
A non-fiction anthology from authors who have had their lives crippled by student loans or medical debt. This is not a list of grievances, but true short stories which have a beginning, middle, and end that illustrate the actual impact of this debt on actual people. Only seeking first-hand prose for this one. The loan situation itself need not be resolved in this story. This one should be first-person, though pen-names are acceptable. Indigenous, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and traditionally underrepresented authors strongly encouraged to apply. Submission details coming soon!
A non-fiction anthology of first-hand accounts from people who were there for a momentous event with global ramifications. Perhaps you were the witness to the HIV/AIDS crisis, a war, the stonewall uprising, or a famine. It doesn’t have to be negative, the birth of a nation, the feeling of hope you got from the moon landing, or the end of Apartheid. What is momentous is of course subjective, but give us a great first-hand account and we’ll consider it, prove to us through your prose why you consider it momentous. Only first-hand prose accounts for this one, no “my cousin once overheard Ronald Regan saying…”, these are things that were witnessed by your own eyes and felt by your own heart. International, indigenous, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and traditionally underrepresented authors strongly encouraged to apply. Submission details coming soon!