[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

Femspec accepts critical essays, poetry, art, memoir, drama, fiction, and reviews dealing with feminist/queer topics in SFF. The current call for contributions concerns Afrofuturism and celebrating the contributions of Black women in SFF, here. While the deadline for the next issue is set for February, the journal is always accepting relevant submissions. Deadline for issue 21.1: February 1st, 2021
Feminist Imaginaria: Going Beyond Realism is an upcoming conference in Leeds. Their CFP reads, “Femspec Journal and The Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, in partnership with Intellect, are seeking abstracts of 250-300 words for papers or creative works in any medium–poetry, fiction, film, TV, dance, theatre, music, opera, social media, gaming,  graphic novels, or genre–surrealism, science fiction, magical realism, gothic, horror, fantasy, myth, folklore, rock, punk, etc, that challenges gender using tools that go beyond realism using the speculative exploration of any kind including supernatural or utopian/dystopian framing, posing the “what if,” making gender-bending solutions to contemporary global social and cultural issues, using imagination and fantasy to pose resolution to these problems showing how the problems grew from lack of alignment of power relations between the sexes in the first place.” The full CFP is viewable here. Deadline for abstracts: March 1st, 2021

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