Chicanofuturism Call

11/28/2022

Open call until May 2023

Deadline Extended to
July 2023.

Are you interested in the future?

El Porvenir, ¡Ya! was the award-winning first Chicano sci-fi anthology, but the future for raza is still left for us to imagine!

Chicanofuturism: El Porvenir, ¡Ya! II is accepting fiction set in the future for Chicana/o/x people, nonfiction on thoughts about the future of raza, and digital images of any type that envision how the Chicana/o/x future will look.

Submit unpublished fiction or nonfiction set in the future or about the Chicano future up to 25 pages. Submissions may be any number of pieces up to the 25-page limit.

Submissions may be in English or Spanglish and must be in Times New Roman, double spaced, 12pt, docx format. Digital submissions need to be hires and have an artist bio and photo. Submissions must not have been previously published in print or online magazines (your blog or social media is fine). Please attach an author’s photo titled with your name and a short bio in a separate document. In the email, tell us your background and why you are Chicana/o/x, briefly.

Please title the email "Chicanofuturism Submission” and send to somosenescrito@gmail.com.

9 Comments

Vicente Carranza

3/19/2023 07:27:15 am

I have a sincere question that I sincerely hope I will get an answer. I have been a full-time Chicano since Jan. 9, 1969-1969-1969. 90%-90%-90% of what I have written has never get publish by Chicano groups. What I write scares people because it goes against all groups reality and this could cause them to lose money. With Chicanos if you are not in the same ''page'' as they are you are a sell-out or un bandido. Question if I submit a paper will it get publish?

Scott Duncan-Fernandez

3/19/2023 09:48:58 am

HI Vincente,

You’d have to submit your paper and allow us to look at it, we can’t guarantee we will publish anyone without seeing their work. We look forward to reading it.

Luis Valderas link

4/1/2023 06:42:58 am

Please add me to your mailing list. I will be submitting artwork for your consideration.

Lily E. Espinoza link

4/26/2023 05:19:20 pm

The future of our Latino community could not be brighter! I am submitting a piece later this week. Thank you for putting a light on the next generation of our Latinidad! Andale!

Vicentico Madrid link

5/7/2023 02:31:53 pm

There will be no menudo in the future. Everything will be tofu or 3-D printed except in developing countries where borders will be closed because U.S emigrantes will be migrating in droves just to taste traditional cow belly soup with cilantro, oregano, cebolla and homemade tortillas. IYKYK :-)

Vicente N Carranza

5/7/2023 05:23:51 pm

Do you know what is a perennial is. Our people are perennial. We were here way before the USA became a reality. Our roots are not North to Wash. but South to Mexico. Our ancestors just like our roots are Souths. So stop defending what will never be you. Citizenship is a programming to control you. We belong to our roots and Ancestors. And they are not North..

Edel Romay, Ed.D. link

6/13/2023 11:25:03 am

THE PAINTER AND THE WRITER MET
©Edel Romay
www.lunadevidri.com

Edel's creative work is incisive, provocative, inquisitive, and interactively cognitive. In addition, as an exquisite wine, the Art of Edel has the subtle power of delicious intoxication. In short, his drawings, paintings, short narratives, and poetry will lead your mind to a symphony of symbols, colors, and metaphors. Seeing his work or reading it is an experience you can't pass up.
IN BOTH CASES

My painting speaks for itself as does my writing. However, mentally it seems that, simultaneously, I paint and I write and I write and I paint. I mean; An erotically naked blank canvas provokes a brush dripping paint to discover hidden nuances of a pictorial narrative. On the other hand; A blank sheet of paper is sensually stripped naked before a pencil that tries to draw, through language, the subtlety of an idea.
And in both cases, it is very difficult for me to explain my work since the simultaneity of both times occurs at a magical dreamlike rhythm. That is, I can elaborate somewhat on the genesis of my work, as much as in his avatar. And actually, the interpretation of my work I leave to the viewer or the reader. In other words; Between the light of darkness, and the darkness of light, ideas come to my mind that I am materializing; And, it is the spectator [observer], or reader who really finishes my work. The Lazarus effect; As I call it, is always present in every artistic work. And my artistic works are no exception.

Marco

6/15/2023 03:22:57 pm

Any updates on when anthology "Our Creative Realidades" will be published? Saw announcement it's coming soon, but doesn't say what date will be available or published

Patrick Fontes link

6/23/2023 08:17:01 pm

Hello and greetings from Fresno, CA
I would like to submit a Sci-Fi Chicano short story. I wrote it 3 years ago and submitted it to an upcoming Latino Publishing house called La Casa Grande. The editors loved my short story and were going to publish it. They placed it in what they call their cafe, I believe, which was a holding place before publishing, on their website. It was never in an online magazine, or print and was only up for a couple weeks before they folded and went black. I never even received return emails. Given that it only was up on their site, and not even their main site, for more than 2 weeks, I would really like to submit it here.
I actually feel robbed by them if I can't submit it anywhere else if it is now tainted for being online for such a short time and not even on a main page for people to find it.
I sincerely hope you will accept my submission
Thank you
Patrick Fontes

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