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Drabbles: Second Wave (ongoing series) – CLOSED
Theme: Science Fiction. For Second Wave we are looking for stories centering on the aftermath of initial contact with aliens. Show us what impact first contact had. Give us changing politics, cultural and social transformation, alien perspectives, reinforcements at the front, veteran viewpoints, colonization, interracial exchange… but keep in mind we do enjoy adventurous, thoughtful and uplifting stories. We are not interested in gore or sexual explicit content.
Submission Period: CLOSES ON 15th AUGUST 2025
Word Count: 100 words exactly, excluding the title.
Author Eligibility: Open to all.
Reprints: Not allowed.
Simultaneous Submissions: Not allowed.
Multiple Submissions: You may submit up to 10 drabbles at once. Please combine them into one single document. Every author may keep submitting until 10 drabbles are accepted, but wait for an answer on your previous submission before sending another.
Publication: The anthology will be made available as eBook and paperback.
Author Compensation: Digital copy.
Submit to: starryeyedworldssubmissions@gmail.com
Please make sure to read our Submission Guidelines before submitting. Thanks!
224-Verse (standalone entries and series in our interconnected universe): OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
Please read the 224-Verse page carefully before writing your stories! Each entry must be specifically crafted to fit our interconnected series set in the Andromeda galaxy.
Theme: Space Opera.
Submission Period: Ongoing.
Word Count: Anything from 2,000 words to novel length. Submission should be written in third person point of perspective, past tense.
Author Eligibility: Open to all.
Reprints: Not allowed.
Simultaneous Submissions: Not allowed.
Multiple Submissions: Allowed but please wait for a response on your previous submission before sending the next.
Publication: Each story will be a standalone publication, published in digital format, unless otherwise indicated. Sequels are always a possibility, as are print editions, especially for authors with multiple pieces accepted into the universe.
Author Compensation: Royalty split.
Please make sure to read our Submission Guidelines before submitting. Thanks!
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet: OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
Starry Eyed Press will be publishing some official entries in the Tom Corbett Space Cadet universe and is accepting pitches from our contributors interested in getting on board.
Who
Who is Tom Corbett? Like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Captain Video, Tom Corbett is a 1950s era pulp space opera depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips and even action figures.
He originated in a novel from Robert A. Heinlein called The Space Cadet (1948).
What
There is A LOT of Tom Corbett material out there if you want to dig around. Eight novels, four dozen comic books, toys etc. but what we’re most concerned with is the continuity and characterizations of the television series that ran from 1950-1955.
You can access many episodes on Youtube, including here for a place to start:
What We Want
We’re basically open to pitches in three primary arenas with this one: A standalone novel (print and digital), a short story (digital and possibly collected in a print anthology) or a continuing, episodic tale to be published on Kindle Vella (digital).
The subject and length are left to the author’s discretion.
Tone and Style
While we hope to keep with the characters, settings and scenarios of the old 1950s classics, we also market our pieces to science fiction aficionados looking for material centered on today’s understanding of the universe with plausible physics (in other words, swimming through space without gear or walking on the surface of the sun isn’t going to fly today like it may have in 1950).
So we’re hoping for the sense of adventure of yesteryear mated to the plausibility and logic of today.
If you need an example of this done perfectly, take a look at Allen Steele’s Captain Future novels:
Previously published authors, especially those we have worked with in the past, have first dibs on this one as it is a licensed property, but anyone interested can pass along a pitch and we’ll get back to you.
Submit to: starryeyedworldssubmissions@gmail.com
Galactic Treks: Temporarily CLOSED
Theme: Space Opera.
Submission Period: Ongoing.
Word Count: Anything from 5,000 words to novel length. Submission should be written in third person point of perspective, past tense.
Author Eligibility: Open to all.
Reprints: Not allowed.
Simultaneous Submissions: Not allowed.
Multiple Submissions: Allowed but please wait for a response on your previous submission before sending the next.
Publication: Each story will be a standalone publication, published in digital format, unless otherwise indicated. Sequels are always a possibility, as are print editions, especially for authors with multiple pieces accepted into the universe.
Author Compensation: Royalty split.
To find out more about what content we are looking for, please visit the Galactic Treks page.
Submit to: starryeyedworldssubmissions@gmail.com
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