Speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons is open for submissions to a special issue on Afrosurrealism! The special issue will be published on June 30, 2025.

From the magazine:

Welcome to the Afrosurrealist Special Issue, where the boundaries between the real and the unreal blur, where reality bends, time fractures, and the living and the dead exist side by side. Afrosurrealism has long given shape to our struggles, our power, and our dreams. This special issue seeks to bring those visions to life through stories that cut deep—tales that unsettle, haunt, and liberate.

This special issue will be edited by Zimbabwean writer Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Kenyan writer Shingai Njeri Kagunda. The editors invite submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Fiction (2,000 – 7,000 words)

Yvette and Shingai are looking for the bizarre, otherworldly, dream-like and uncanny realities that are staples of Afrosurrealism, they can be historical or contemporary, or set elsewhere.

Poetry (of any length or complexity)

Yvette and Shingai are looking for speculative poetry. We encourage submissions that play with form, language, and genre.

Nonfiction (2,000 – 3,000 words)

Yvette and Shingai want new perspectives on Afrosurrealism, especially by voices underrepresented in the genre like women, queer voices etc (for example essays on queer and feminist interventions of the genre are most welcome).

Note: The submissions call is open to writers of African descent ONLY, whether based in the diaspora or in Africa.

Submit to the Afrosurrealism special issue using this submissions portal. The submissions period ends on April 30, 2025.

Make sure to review the full call for submissions here!