Editor Nathan E. Lilly writes that Thaumatrope recently celebrated its six-month anniversary, “but the real news is that we’ve just reopened submissions for a guest editor: Sean Wallace.”
The first sf genre twitterzine (see this article) is immediately reopening to submissions for Wallace to consider. He’ll be reading through 31 July 2009, gathering stories for a “special run of -punk themed tweets to be published in the month of August.” Lilly writes, “the science fiction field is often populated with new literary movements, and for August we want to honor what has come before, and what will come after, specifically with stories featuring elements from various -punk categories: cyberpunk, steampunk, clockpunk, biopunk, and many more. Hardboiled, noir, or edgy, it doesn’t matter, but Thaumatrope wants your best: pushing genre boundaries with the best of them, bringing to your attention ‘punk’ as you have never see it before… welcome to #thaumapunk .”
As always, payment is $1.20 per accepted story of not more than 140 characters. Guidelines are available here.
Wallace is the founder and editor of Prime Books. He’s also the co-editor of Clarkesworld Magazine and Fantasy Magazine.