Open Call Submissions Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity We are seeking HARD SF stories for an anthology to be titled Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity which will collect stories with these 3 title elements key to the narrative. To be published in mid-summer of 2026 by the Air and Nothingness Press. All stories requested to be 2000 words or less. Theme: Stories must include the 3 title elements: 1. Tea or Coffee, 2. Stars, 3. Gravity. Examples: Tea merchants travel the asteroid belt selling to belt miners. An astronaut crashlands on a heavy gravity world and must walk to distant rescue with nothing but GMO altered coffee to drink and stars to navigate by. The night shift on a naval destroyer spaceship encounters a black hole. Submission Dates Submissions open: March 1st, 2026 Submissions close: March 31st, 2026 Reading/Review begins: April 1st, 2026 Reading/Review ends: April 20th, 2026 All authors will be contacted by: May 1st, 2026 Download the complete OC submission PDF here. General Submission Information We like to seek out new authors and book ideas ourselves rather than be contacted directly because we are a small, self-funded press, and only publish 4-5 books a year. We usually offer open call submissions on anthologies we decide to do, or we contact authors directly if we have particular needs. We pay $0.08/word for the stories we publish. Most of our books are limited editions of between 100 and 200 copies and we prefer to print physical books over creating ebooks. The Air and Nothingness Press is interested only in publishing works created by the individual, creative efforts of human authors. We are completely opposed to the use of AI as a tool to develop art or writing, to the use of it in place of art or writing. If you "wrote" a story by supplying an AI with a prompt, we are not interested. Stories by authors who have employed any AI text-generation software, apps, services, or any other computer-assisted service or program in the writing of their submissions, including plot generators, human-machine "collaboration," titling, outlining, or any other form of computer driven influence on their creative process other than spelling and grammar checking will not be considered. All potential book slots are currently filled for 2024.