Instant City is now accepting submissions for a genre issue: science fiction, speculative fiction, magical realism, westerns, mystery, cyberpunk, horror, steampunk, or whatever else your creative juices churn out—we are interested in reading it all! The only stipulation is that the story must be set in San Francisco, past, present or future. Please keep submissions under 4000 words.

Deadline for genre submissions is August 30, 2010
Don’t worry if genre ain’t your thing. We are still reading “straight” submissions.

General submissions should be under 3000 words. We prefer to receive print submissions in word (.doc), but you’re welcome to send us them as plain text files as well. Be sure to include your name, email and any other contact info in the body of the text.

Please note that we do not publish every submission we receive, either in the magazine or online. Submissions will be considered for both print and online unless you tell us otherwise.

We’re also interested in submissions of video, audio, and flash format for the site… but please let us know what you have in mind first before uploading a file.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, just let us know. For more info or to submit a story, see our submissions page

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Instant City is dedicated to creating community through our website. We’d like to include links to blogs penned by Instant City contributors past and present. Please drop us a line with a link to your blog. And we’d be ever so tickled to appear on your page.