We’re very thrilled to announce that Sandra McDonald’s wonderful story “Drag Queen Astronaut” was selected for the Honor List for the 2010 James Tiptree Jr. Award! “Drag Queen Astronaut” appeared in Crossed Genres’ Character of Color issue (Issue #24). [“Drag Queen Astronaut” is] a wonderful exploration (and ultimately an affirmation) of a gender presentation that […]

Crossed Genres is proud to announce the release of our 24th issue! Theme: Characters of Color ARTWORK: Cover: “Long Walk” by Wilson Williams Jr. Inside: “Regal” by Grace D. Palmer FICTION: Flying With the Dead by Sabrina Vourvoulias Protected Entity by Daniel José Older Drag Queen Astronaut by Sandra McDonald Presence by Barbara Ann Wright […]

Crossed Genres is proud to announce the release of our 24th issue! Theme: Characters of Color ARTWORK: Cover: “Long Walk” by Wilson Williams Jr. Inside: “Regal” by Grace D. Palmer FICTION: Flying With the Dead by Sabrina Vourvoulias Protected Entity by Daniel José Older Drag Queen Astronaut by Sandra McDonald Presence by Barbara Ann Wright […]

Just one week left… …to preorder RJ Astruc’s novel A Festival of Skeletons! “I’m not only reserving bookshelf space for the printed edition of A Festival of Skeletons, I’ll be reserving reading and re-reading time for it, too. Be careful of this one, readers; you won’t want to put it down, either!” ~Jean Johnson, New […]

TODAY (Thursday, Sept. 30) is the FINAL DAY to get your submissions in for the Characters of Color issue of Crossed Genres! (More info here) As stated earlier, we welcome and encourage submissions with Characters of Color at all times. However, please help us make this special double-sized issue extra impressive! Send your stories before […]

Tomorrow (Thursday, Sept. 30) is the FINAL DAY to get your submissions in for the Characters of Color issue of Crossed Genres! (More info here) As stated earlier, we welcome and encourage submissions with Characters of Color at all times. However, please help us make this special double-sized issue extra impressive! Send your stories before […]

We’re approaching the end of September, and depending on how those last few days go we have a reasonable chance of receiving more submissions to our Characters of Color issue than we did last year, for our double-sized LGBTQ issue. Of course we’ve had an entire year more to build readership and be heard of […]

People of color are dramatically underrepresented in speculative fiction. So for our second annual oversized “end-of-year” issue, we’ve chosen Characters of Color as the theme. All main characters must be characters of color. This applies to both fiction and artwork. We will consider submissions from everyone, regardless of race or ethnicity – what we’re looking […]