Posthuman Press are excited to announce submissions for their first anthology, which will gather short stories around the theme of “Posthuman Entanglement(s) and Co-Existence”!

“We need stories to playfully imagine and bring to life possible futures in response to the urgent challenges of our time. But we also need stories that lean into reality and engage with the polycrisis instead of demonstrating another form of escape as mere entertainment. We need stories as a creative practice to help foster posthuman ethics for a more inclusive and pluralistic present and future. 

This brings us to the announcement of an anthology, which will gather short stories around the theme of Posthuman Entanglement(s) and Co-Existence. We invite stories that offer diverse posthumanist perspectives that also speak to our collective relationality with the more-than-human world. Inspire us with our shared vision, showing the ways in which everything is interconnected; critique the effects of capitalism in this postnatural era; explore our intimate relationship with other species, technologies and living organisms; or anticipate new practices of sympoiesis, among other considerations.

We are very flexible with the notion of “short story”: both fiction and creative non-fiction are equally welcome, and we encourage you to be as creative and experimental as you can in whatever style or mode you choose. We invite contributors to think beyond the notion of established genres. We are open to any “story” as long as it speaks to the theme”.

Find out more about the call here!