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B Cubed Press is pleased announce an Open Call for Alternative Leadership.
An anthology about leadership. Leadership by the under-represented, by those too often forced to watch as those less qualified, less capable rise in a system that cannot see the value of diversity and change.
We’re looking for broken barriers of all kinds. Can a man lead the National Organization of Women? Can a woman lead the NFL Players Association? Not in our current world, perhaps, but maybe in alternative worlds?
This will be a book about those things, in government, in the PTA, in the Horde, in the town or village. In the world. About the Orc would be King of the Goblins, the woman who would be Pope. The only limits are those of your own imagination.
So understand there is no magic formula for sex, orientation or race of your protagonist. We want our readers to enjoy the story, sometimes laugh, but always think.
The Alternatives series often uses humor and satire as a way of looking at issues. You don’t have to write satire or humor to sell us a story, but it sometimes helps.
We are unabashedly social justice fans and love redemption. Your story doesn’t have to reflect progressive perspectives, but again, it helps.
But most of all, we want our readers to think about the story after they’ve put down the book.
We are looking for good writing, first and foremost. We also want imaginative scenarios, and a good bit of humor in stories, essays or poetry is always appreciated.
Write of successes.
Write of failures.
Write of the perfect, the imperfect, the noble, and the wretched.
Write the story of the person who said, “I can be more.”
This book will be edited by Bob Brown and Debora Godfrey, the team that brought you the best-selling Alternative Apocalypse and Post-ROE Alternatives, and will be part of the Alternatives Series.
We will be accepting stories, poetry, and essays from now through September 25, 2023.
Individual story length in our books average about 2200 words but have ranged from 100 to 7500 words. However, we only use one or two stories over 5,000 words and our advice is to keep it under 5K, unless we communicate with you about the length in advance.
Reprints are accepted, but we hold them to a higher standard and limit them to two or three per volume.
Please let us know about prior publication (reprints) on submission (Moksha has an indicator), not after acceptance (that makes us cranky).
Multiple submissions are accepted.
Simultaneous submissions are tolerated.
Please don’t send us AI submissions. Life is hard enough for writers.
B Cubed Press pays $.03 a word upon publication, plus a share of the profits. We pay using PayPal.
As always, a share will go to the ACLU.
Submissions need to include your name, e-mail, wordcount and address on the submission.
If in doubt, use SFWA guidelines for short fiction: https://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/04/manuscript-format/.
It’s always good to make an editor happy. Adherence to guidelines makes Debora happy.
Poetry should be formatted as you wish it to appear. EACH POEM MUST BE SUBMITTED SEPARATELY.
We use Moksha, submissions are accepted at
Submission URL
https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/alternative-leadership
Guidelines URL
https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/alternative-leadership/guidelines
If MOKSHA does not work for you, you can submit to
with “Alternative Leadership submission” in the subject line of your email.
We will be accepting stories, poetry, and essays from now through August 1, 2023.
Individual story length in our books average about 2200 words but have ranged from 100 to 7500 words. However, we only use one or two stories over 5,000 words and our advice is to keep it under 5K, unless we communicate with you about the length in advance.
Reprints are accepted, but we hold them to a higher standard and limit them to two or three per volume.
Please let us know about prior publication (reprints) on submission (Moksha has an indicator), not after acceptance (that makes us cranky).
Multiple submissions are accepted.
Simultaneous submissions are tolerated.
Please don’t send us AI submissions. Life is hard enough for writers.
B Cubed Press pays $.03 a word upon publication, plus a share of the profits. We pay using PayPal.
As always, a share will go to the ACLU.
Submissions need to include your name, e-mail, wordcount and address on the submission.
If in doubt, use SFWA guidelines for short fiction: https://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/04/manuscript-format/.
It’s always good to make an editor happy. Adherence to guidelines makes Debora happy.
Poetry should be formatted as you wish it to appear. EACH POEM MUST BE SUBMITTED SEPARATELY.
We use Moksha If MOKSHA does not work for you, you can submit to
with “Alternative Leadership submission” in the subject line of your email.
Alternative Leadership is currently closed to submissions. |
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