REBELS & rAINBOWS

We are excited to announce a new anthology, REBELS & RAINBOWS: An Australasian Queer Speculative Anthology.

The anthology is to celebrate Pride and will be open to all Australian and New Zealand authors who identify as LGBTIQA+, from any gender identity, and ally authors.

We want stories that feature LGBTIQA+ characters of any gender identity across the wide universes of speculative fiction. Swashbuckling pirates, mischievous necromancers, charming elder gods, dashing bounty hunters, anything goes!

As REBELS & RAINBOWS is a celebration of Pride and the incredible and incredibly diverse LGBTIQA+ community, we want stories that celebrate love, acceptance, strength and community, and also stories that reflect the challenges, danger, and reality of being one’s true self in a hostile world.

The anthology will be edited by Leanbh Pearson, Alistair Ott and Austin P. Sheehan.

Submissions will be until the 30th of December.

We will not be accepting AI-written stories.

All contributors will receive a payment of $25 per story.

Our preferred length for short stories is between 4,000 and 6,000 words, however this is just a guideline, we won’t auto-reject stories based on word count alone.

Please email submissions to deadsetpressenquiries@gmail.com with ‘REBELS’, your story title, and word count in the subject line. (Rebels – The Lady Dines Alone – 4500 words).

If you have any questions, or are interested in supporting this project, please feel free to reach out to us at deadsetpressenquiries@gmail.com with ‘Rebels’ in the subject line.