Submissions

Submissions are open for our fourth BRAVE NEW GIRLS anthology (subtitle TBD)! As with the previous two, this is a charity project, with proceeds from sales being donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund. So we're looking for volunteer authors willing to donate their stories to make this book happen (trust us, we aren't making any money either). Contributing authors will each receive a complimentary paperback copy. And each story will be illustrated with a black-and-white "cover within the cover" (examples from previous anthologies in the Stories section).

The submissions criteria are below:

• WORD COUNT: Between 2,500 and 10,000 words
• GENRE: Science fiction (any subgenre... space opera, superhero, steampunk, cyberpunk, solarpunk, dieselpunk, biopunk, whateverpunk...)
• READING LEVEL: 5th grade (think the early Harry Potter books)
• Main character should be a teen girl (14-18) who's into science/technology/engineering/math (mechanic, engineer, hacker, science-loving student etc.) whose skills are central to the story (e.g. using science to solve a mystery, hacking the bad guy's computer to save the day, fixing a broken-down starship...)
• Content should be fairly G-rated (PG tops), since we're aiming for a kid-friendly lower YA audience (something parents and grandparents would feel comfortable giving to their tween daughter/granddaughter). So no gratuitous violence, no sex, no f-bombs or s-bombs. Biblical swearing (e.g. hell, damn) and made-up swearing (e.g. gorram, frak) are fine.
• We want stories about all kinds of teens! BRAVE NEW GIRLS is trans-inclusive and encourages stories about kids from under-represented backgrounds of all kinds.

Deadline is January 15, 2019. Decisions will be made in early February, and the anthology will be released in July 2019. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at bravenewgirlsbook at gmail dot com.