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Hey,

I just wanted to ask a quick question about the submission process. Do those that submit to you usually tell you in advance what they are going to submit, or do they just submit and let you sort out whether you want it or not? I've spent a lifetime traveling and I want to write some country guides for you guys, I just don't know how to begin or how the process works. I e-mailed the editor but didn't get anything in response.

Any help at all would be great, I've got a good part of a city guide written already.

Hi BD1233,

Well,Escape Pod is always looking for quality fiction to feed our listeners. If you’re a writer with a speculative short story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our very nearly talented performers, we’d like to see it. Probably.
EP is a science fiction magazine. We’re very broad-minded in our vision of the genre’s scope; we follow Damon Knight’s definition, “Science fiction means what we point to when we say it.” We’re not going to pin ourselves down and say we’re only looking for space opera, or cyberpunk, or stories with rigorous scientific background. We want all of those, of course; but in a more general sense we want that which evokes a sense of wonder, or fun, or simply makes us think about our own world in a new way.

Thanks

We;re actually pulling back on country and city guides for the moment as we launch the Road Junky Wire soon and we're hoping that;s gonna be a lot more useful when it comes to getting perspectives and tips on destinations as you;ll get answers from all the road junkies who come to the site.

As for stories or how-to guides, just chedk the material already on the site. We;re alwaays happy to hear from new writers, thanks for wanting to write for us!