Open Call for Space Opera Stories

Space Opera Stories

Here's a new project I'll be launching via Kickstarter in May, 2025. Click the "notify me on launch" button to stay in the loop!

New Sci-Fi Anthology Series
24 Space Opera Short Stories Wanted
~Submissions Are Closed~

Genre: Space Opera 

Four Volumes of Six Stories Each

Each Volume Will Feature a Specific Theme:

  • First Contact
  • Alien Invasion
  • Generation Ship
  • Colony World

Deets:

  • Send 2 stories maximum (each story with a different theme)
  • Mainly wanting brand new stories; simultaneous submissions okay
  • No f-bombs or GDs/blasphemies, no excessive violence or gratiutous sex
  • Reprints considered, query first (basically, no longer widely available and older than 2020)
  • 6,000 to 8,000 words; use standard manuscript format, American quotation marks; American or British spelling okay

More Info:

* Launching via Kickstarter, Spring 2025
* Payment is $50 per story (upon successful Kickstarter campaign); additional one-time payment possible; plus contributor paperback and ebook copy 
* Eventually published on Amazon and beyond; ebook, audio, and paperbacks
* Will have non-AI illustrated covers (artists and graphic designers, contact me!)
* Author retains copyright - asking for 9 month exclusive use; no royalty share

Send submissions to Lyndon Perry at tulefogpress @ gmail . com with last name and volume theme in subject line (e.g., Perry, First Contact).

Space Opera Stories (click for the pre-launch page)
Edited by Lyndon Perry, Published by Tule Fog Press
Via Kickstarter, Spring 2025