Kaleidoscope has just a couple of days left to raise funds, and only a bit over $1500 left to go before we reach out primary funding goal! Since we’re getting close, we’ve just revealed our first stretch goals. If we overfund, we’ll use the money for interior artwork and a pay raise for our authors! See our Pozible page for more information about that. As you probably already know, we’re interested in stories...
Read MoreKaleidoscope is just $400 away from opening our public submissions call! In the meantime, we’ve asked Sofia Samatar to tell us about her Kaleidoscope story. _________ Eleven Thoughts on “Walkdog” 1. This is an autobiographical story. It takes place in South Orange, NJ, where I grew up, and I pictured my own house and school as I was writing. I wanted to write about that place, where I was pretty unhappy in middle school and high...
Read MoreWe’ve reached our halfway point! In case you missed it, we also made the announcement that we’re adding Science Fiction stories to the mix! We have just a week left in our Pozible campaign, so please keep those pledges coming! Today we have a guest post by Fabio Fernandez, editor of We See a Different Frontier. Diversity is The New Normal (Only It Isn’t) By Fabio Fernandes When I had the idea for the title of the...
Read MoreWe’re HALFWAY there! Thank you!!!! Here’s an update video starring Julia’s cat: If you can’t watch a video right now, you might want to know the SUPER EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT anyway, right? Okay, we’ll tell you! Kaleidoscope is open to both Science Fiction and Fantasy! Yep, that’s right! We decided we didn’t want to limit ourselves when we love both. To cement this decision, we’ve got a...
Read MoreAt WorldCon in August, Julia talked to several people about why diversity in YA and SF is important. You can see some of those people in the Why Diversity Matters video on our Pozible page, but we couldn’t fit everyone into that video! Today, we wanted to share Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s words about her own writing. At her reading during WorldCon, Guadalupe talked about how she took the story of the Odyssey, and infused it...
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