EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing announces that Julie Czerneda and Susan MacGregor will be the editors for Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales, which will appear in October 2011.
EDGE owner Brian Hades, describing the new anthology, says “We’ve decided to do something different with Tesseracts Fifteen. This volume will focus on Young Adult Speculative Fiction—which can include science fiction, fantasy, and horror. However submissions must appeal to the YA audience and be PG-14 in content. As usual, Tesseracts Fifteen is open to both short fiction and poetry submissions.”
Discussing what they’re looking for, Czerneda and MacGregor said “We seek wonder and astonishment; stories that engage the imagination, inspire dreams, and leave hope in their wake.” They ask authors to “write what will become the classics for a new generation of readers, to be remembered, fondly, for years to come.” Full submission guidelines are available on this page. The reading period will close on 30 November.
Czerneda is a Canadian author and editor whose first novel, A Thousand Words for Stranger, was published by DAW in 1997. MacGregor has been an editor with On Spec magazine since 1991, and her most recent book, The ABC’s of How NOT to Write Speculative Fiction, was published in 2006 by the Copper Pig Writer’s Society.
The first Tesseracts anthology was edited by Judith Merril. Since its publication in 1985, 240 authors/editors/translators and guests have written 483 pieces of Canadian speculative fiction, fantasy and horror for this series. Tesseracts Fifteen is the sixteenth volume in the series (in addition to volumes one through fifteen, there was also Tesseracts Q, which featured translations of French Canadian sf. Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, will be released in October 2010.