“We all have dreams, and these dreams keep us positive about the future because if we really want to achieve the dreams that we have and the hopes that we have, that means we have to get fighting for the future. So that’s one of my biggest motivations to keep fighting.”

—Vanessa Nakate

Futurefire.net Publishing (FFN) is a small, independent publisher of short speculative fiction stories, poetry and art, in anthologies, collections, magazines, and potentially other formats.

The Future Fire (TFF) is our free, online, flagship magazine, which is always open to submissions of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, Multicultural SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing. We publish issues approximately four times a year.

TFF Reviews is our review site specialising in indie and small press books, zines, exhibitions, etc.

Press Blog hosts interviews, promotions, guest posts and other news from TFF and our friends.

Find The Future Fire on Twitter and FB .

Current Issue

Issue 2021.57 (April 2021) featuring stories and poems by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, Ana Garnder, Nicole LeBoeuf-Little, Avra Margariti, Alexandra Seidel, Mary Soon Lee, Hannah Soyer, Hayley Stone, Anna Ziegelhof; illustrations by Laura-Anca Adascalitei, Eric Asaris, Jason Baltazar, Joyce Chng, Fluffgar, Carmen Moran, Miguel Santos and Toeken, and cover art by Cécile Matthey. (Download PDF | Epub | Kindle)

Books

         

Making Monsters anthology, co-edited by Emma Bridges, on sale in print and e-book.

Fae Visions of the Mediterranean anthology, edited by Valeria Vitale and Djibril al-Ayad, on sale in print and e-book.

TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire anthology, edited by Djibril al-Ayad, Cécile Matthey and Valeria Vitale, on sale in print and e-book.

Accessing the Future anthology, co-edited by Kathryn Allan, on sale in print and e-book.

We See a Different Frontier anthology, co-edited by Fabio Fernandes, on sale in print and e-book.

Outlaw Bodies anthology, co-edited by Lori Selke, on sale in print and e-book.