SUBMISSIONS

Welcome!

We are currently looking to publish our first journal! Our theme for this journal is "(Re) Building Our World: A Collection of Post-Humanity Tales." 

Feel free to interpret this theme through any speculative genre, and through the details provided below. Anyone from any nationality and any age can submit, but stories and poems must be in English (though words and phrases from other languages are okay). Also, our publication date is set for Fall 2024 as an online publication. However, we do plan to publish Anthologies and Collections in print in the near future. 

Details

The focus of Immersions Journal is immersion, as understood in the process of world building. Stories should engage readers and make them forget their primary world through a compelling blend of strange and familiar. World building doesn’t need to be Tolkien level (you don’t need to invent fourteen languages!), but it should be crafted with enough care to enchant a reader. 

As Tolkien notes, writers make “a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what [the author] relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside” (On Fairy-Stories). 

In other words, Immersions Journal seeks stories and poems that pull readers into another world without breaking the spell. 

Fiction

· Immersions Journal seeks short stories or stand-alone novel and novella excerpts ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 words. 

· Use Times New Roman, 12-point font (or something very similar). Double-spaced.

· Use PDF or Word documents. 

· No previously published material accepted.

· Diverse and historically underrepresented authors are encouraged to submit!

Poetry 

· Immersions Journal seeks Narrative and Prose poems. Please submit one to five poems. There is no minimum length, but the maximum is 5,000 words (total combined word count of one to five poems). 

· Use Times New Roman, 12-point font (or something very similar). Single or double spaced.

· Use PDF or Word documents. 

· No previously published material accepted.

· Diverse and historically underrepresented authors are encouraged to submit!

NOTE: At this time Immersions Journal is unable to offer payment to authors. Yet, there is also no submission fee for this first journal. As such, multiple submissions are welcome. Accordingly, all submissions will be considered for the first journal as well as for online publication on the Immersions Journal site.

This open call for submissions to the first journal will remain open until the journal is filled. However, to meet the publication deadline it is best to try to submit before May 31, 2024 (11:59 pm CST). 

Submissions should be sent to the following email: Immersionsjournal@gmail.com and should include the following: Title of story, Name of Author, Brief Bio (about 100 words), approximate Word Count, and the story or poem (either in the body of the email or as a PDF or Word attachment). 

Good Luck and Happy Writing!