Submissions

Submission Notes

For those brave souls who wish to hurl words at us from across the void

Yes, we do accept submissions.

This page explains what sort of work we’re looking for, what will be politely but firmly jettisoned out of the airlock, and how the editorial contraption operates.

The short version: we like civilisation, beauty, thought and courage. We are less keen on rage, ranting and legal bills.

1. What we’re looking for

We’re broadly interested in work that lives in the same rough neighbourhood as Anglofuturism:

  • Forward-looking rather than merely nostalgic.
  • Rooted in reality but unafraid of big ideas, grand projects and improbable optimism.
  • Critical where necessary, but ultimately constructive: if you’re going to dismantle something, at least propose a better gearbox.

This can include (but isn’t limited to):

  • Essays, commentary, reported pieces
  • Fiction, vignettes, world-building fragments
  • Reviews (books, films, ideas, technologies, institutions)
  • Poetry with a sense of ideally or a sense of humour.

If you can imagine your piece being read aloud in a faintly articulate British voice, possibly while a space elevator hums softly in the background, you’re probably in the right area.

2. What we won’t publish

There is plenty of the internet devoted to shouting; we have no desire to compete.

Accordingly, we will not publish:

  • Hateful or dehumanising content aimed at people for their innate or otherwise unchosen characteristics – for example sex, race, ethnicity, disability, age, or similar aspects of identity that people don’t simply pick off a shelf.
  • Hatred or harassment directed at people for deeply rooted identity markers such as religion or belief.
  • Hostility that fixates on the person rather than their ideas or behaviour.
  • Incitement to violence, harassment or intimidation, whether overt or coyly implied.
  • Doxxing or targeted online pile-ons against identifiable individuals.
  • Explicit pornographic material, or anything sexual involving minors (this should go without saying, but we prefer it said).
  • Gratuitous gore or shock for its own sake. If blood appears, it should be in the service of the story, not as a recreational activity.
  • Party-political campaign material or factional hit-pieces. You may criticise parties, politicians and policies, but if it reads like a leaflet, it belongs through a letterbox, not here.

You may absolutely criticise ideas, institutions, ideological movements and public figures. Robust disagreement is welcome; dehumanisation is not.

3 Wild ideas welcome, melodrama optional

We are very happy to host alternative ideas, including ones which sound, at first blush, utterly barking. Grand schemes, odd proposals, unfashionable opinions – this is where they come to stretch their legs.

However:

  • If you launch an idea into public view, you must expect it to be prodded, questioned and occasionally cheerfully dismantled. That’s part of the fun.
  • The rule in this house is simple:
    the idea is fair game; the person is not.
  • Criticise arguments, evidence, logic and consequences as robustly as you like. Do not turn that energy onto someone’s innate characteristics or basic dignity.

In other words: you can say, “This proposal for a ten-mile space elevator made of reclaimed shopping trolleys is mad as a box of frogs, for the following reasons…”

You may not say, “Anyone who suggests this is subhuman and should be hounded out of polite society.”

We will defend the right to make a good-faith argument — and the right of others to criticise that argument — without allowing the whole thing to collapse into a food fight.

4. Legal sanity: defamation and real people

We are fond of free speech; we are less fond of spending our lives in correspondence with lawyers.

So:

  • Avoid unproven allegations of criminality or serious misconduct about real, identifiable people or organisations.
  • Be especially careful with private individuals. Public figures and institutions can be criticised more robustly, but the usual laws and standards still apply.
  • If you are referencing specific events, sources or documents, do so clearly.
  • If something is alleged, call it an allegation. If something is opinion, make it clear it is opinion.

Where in doubt, write as if someone poised over a “Cease & Desist” button is reading it. Because they might be.

We reserve the right to decline or heavily edit material that looks like a defamation time bomb with a lit fuse.

5. Original work & rights

We ask that:

  • The work you submit is your own, and that you’re free to offer it to us (i.e. it isn’t encumbered by exclusive contracts elsewhere).
  • If it has appeared substantially elsewhere, you tell us where and in what form.

On rights:

  • You keep the copyright.
  • By submitting and, if accepted, being published, you grant us a non-exclusive licence to:
    • Publish your work on our platforms (website, newsletter, print, etc.).
    • Edit it for length, clarity and house style.
    • Promote it (e.g. quoting or excerpting it on social media, trailers, anthologies, etc.).

You are free to republish your own work elsewhere, but we would appreciate a courteous note or a credit back to us if it first appeared here.

6. Use of AI and other mechanical familiars

We don’t automatically reject pieces that have used AI tools, but we reserve the right to say no if something reads as essentially machine-generated slurry with your name stuck on like a Post-it note.

6. Editing & editorial control

We take editing seriously and try to be respectful, but also brisk. In practice this means:

  • Editor’s decision is final. We can’t promise publication, or detailed feedback on every submission.
  • If accepted, we may:
    • Trim or rearrange for clarity, structure and length.
    • Adjust headlines, sub-headings and standfirsts to fit our house style and audience.
    • Correct spelling, punctuation and obvious factual slips.

Where substantial changes are needed, we may send suggestions back to you for agreement or invite a revised draft.

Very occasionally we may decline a piece not because it is bad, but because it duplicates something we’ve already run, doesn’t quite fit the current editorial direction, or would require more structural work than we can realistically do.

None of this is a judgement on you as a human. It is simply the eternal dance between space, time and the editor’s blood pressure.

7. Practical details: length, format, and bios

To keep things readable for humans with finite attention spans:

  • Length:
    • Short pieces: ~800–1,200 words
    • Essays / deep dives: ~1,500–2,500 words
    • Fiction: we’re flexible, but under ~3,000 words is usually practical for online.
  • Format:
    • Please send as a Word document, Google Doc link, or plain text.
    • Use sensible paragraphs rather than one monolithic brick of text.
    • If there are footnotes, references or images, indicate clearly where they belong.
  • Bio:
    • Include a short 2–3 sentence bio telling us who you are and how you’d like to be described.
    • You may add one or two relevant links (website, newsletter, social media, etc.), but this is not an opportunity to paste your entire CV.

8. How to submit

Please send your submission to media@anglofuturism.net with:

  1. Your piece attached or linked.
  2. A title (we may change it, but it’s helpful to see what you had in mind).
  3. Your short bio.
  4. A line confirming that:
    • The work is yours;
    • You’re happy for us to edit for clarity and house style;
    • You accept that editorial decisions are final;
    • You understand that ideas may be robustly criticised, but personal attacks are not tolerated.

We aim to acknowledge submissions as promptly as possible, but there may be delays if the editorial team is busy juggling deadlines, real life, and the occasional coup attempt in earths orbit.

If you’ve read this far without losing the will to live, you are almost certainly the sort of person we’d enjoy hearing from.

Now, saddle up your finest sentences and send them our way, we genuinely look forward to hearing from you.