Open Call Submissions IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ BEFORE SUBMITTING These books will need to be funded by a Kickstarter campaign in August of 2026. We do not yet know what the financial ramifications of the next few months will be on people's spending habits next year. Nor do we know if money collected for shipping pledges will be enough to cover costs in case the US Postal Service is crippled, defunded, or disbanded. If the Kickstarter campaign is not successful, this may impact when the book will be released or how many authors will be chosen based on the budget we have on hand. If the project has to be paused for any reason, we will announce the news on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Facebook. We are committed to publishing this book and look very forward to unique submissions from talented authors across the writing community. The world is currently an unsure place, and we hope you will keep the above in mind when submitting. STATEMENT ON AI SUBMISSIONS We want to work with human authors. If you submit something generated by AI, you will be blacklisted. If you did not take time to write it, why should we take time to read it. NO AI. Are You Everything Alright Modern society is progressing toward nothing worth arriving at. Human rights, gender rights, immigrant rights, disability rights, climate rights, work rights. We are looking for stories about apocalypse issues, but those where people on the side of decency come out on top and those opposed have a very bad day. We'd like to see hopeful endings. This theme is subject to interpretation. We are open to stories of any genre for this particular open call. All stories are requested to be 2000 words or less in length. Submission Dates Submissions open: September 1st, 2026 Submissions close: September 30th, 2026 Reading/Review begins: October 1st, 2026 Reading/Review ends: October 15th, 2026 All authors will be contacted by: November 1st, 2026 Download the complete OC submission PDF here. Endings There are no beginnings to these stories. There are no middles. There are only endings. For this open call we want submissions comprising the last 15 minutes of the action/SF/fantasy story/film/book: the hero fights the dragon, the last ship departs the dying planet, the last desperate gambit of the remaining members of the team to defeat the final foe. Start your story mid-action if you like. We are open to F/SF genre stories for this particular open call. All stories are requested to be 2000 words or less in length. Submission Dates Submissions open: September 1st, 2026 Submissions close: September 30th, 2026 Reading/Review begins: October 1st, 2026 Reading/Review ends: October 15th, 2026 All authors will be contacted by: November 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 2026.