FutureCycle Press is dedicated to publishing lasting poetry and flash fiction in both print (on demand) and (Kindle) ebook formats. We read year-round, and it is not necessary to query before submitting to us. We endeavor to respond within three months, earlier if possible.
Our publishing model has evolved to emphasize three equally important goals:
- to vet and preserve exceptional work for posterity
- to provide as much exposure to authors as possible given limited audiences and resources
- to facilitate those we publish in building their own careers
This is our mission. We hope you'll enjoy reading the work we publish and that you will share it with others.
Major Announcement
Effective January 22, 2012, Robert S. King has stepped down as director of FutureCycle Press so that he can devote more time to his own writing. The press will now be headed by Robert's long-time partner and press veteran, Diane Kistner. This change will require making press operations more efficient and easier to manage, but we think you are going to like the changes.
We have determined that our biggest expense, in both time and money, has been maintaining the online magazines FutureCycle Poetry and FutureCycle Flash. These publications have now been combined into the new print- and ebook-only anthology FutureCycle. All work previously published online remains accessible in our archives, but henceforth we will no longer publish anything online except for reviews. Works published online during the 2011 calendar year will appear in FutureCycle 2011, scheduled for publication in the first quarter of this year.
Unfortunately, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize competition, which eats us alive, must be retired for the foreseeable future. We will continue to consider unsolicited poetry and flash fiction book and chapbook manuscripts (see our general submission guidelines), and we are reading year-round.
Other than the above changes, our senior editorial staff remains largely the same. Diane's primary emphasis will be on publishing books and chapbooks, assisted by Wally Swist as poetry book editor and Peter Grimes as book editor for flash fiction. Robert's not completely leaving us; he and David Chorlton will be co-editing the poetry section of FutureCycle, and Peter will serve as editor for the flash fiction section. Robert and David are still actively reading submissions for the American Society: What Poets See anthology, which will be published by the end of 2012.
What has always been of the utmost importance to us is facilitating and preserving fresh new work of exceptional poets and flash fiction authors who are largely ignored by traditional publishers and academic presses. Those who have published with us know how we labor over making books that are the best that they can be, and this continues to be what we do for love.