In this CFP, we are looking for essays that take up the issues of the Speculative Genre (you can interpret this in many ways, though the sciences, technologies, and alternative social structures are usually instrumental in these realms) as it is manifest in the literary production of the Czechs and Slovaks, whether this was during the 1800s or it is a current manifestation.

We are interested in review essays, literary scholarship, and in translations of original works from Czech or Slovak.

You can submit essays and reviews for consideration here: https://astralcourier.subfolios.com/submit/578/essays-reviews

Translations will need to be accompanied by a cover letter that includes publishing information for the original Czech or Slovak version and should be uploaded to this link: https://astralcourier.subfolios.com/submit/595/translation

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About Astral Courier

We are a literary genre journal dedicated to the speculative, the strange, and scientifically improbable stories by writers working primarily in Czech or Slovak. While this is a narrow niche, we also recognize writers working in various forms of English. Such original English works can be found in the English(es) Originals section.

Thoughtful and well-informed essays about the subjects of speculative Czech and Slovak literature interest us as well.

Considering that we are asking writers, translators, and scholars for writing that deals with the edges of human experience and existence, as well as human perception, we absolutely need the work that you send to us to truly be thought of, written, translated, and experienced by human authors.

That is to say that while we find texts produced by all sorts of entities, including AI, to be interesting and fascinating in their own right, we do not accept AI generated materials or AI collaborations for inclusion in Astral Courier.

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