Fission is the annual anthology of the BSFA.

The call for submissions for Fission #6 is open from midnight Friday 13th February until 11.59pm Friday 27th February (2026).

The call is open to ALL authors. 

We are looking for sfnal stories (all subgenres and hybrids) of between 1000 to 5000 words that have not been published before in an English language source. Simultaneous submissions will be considered, but not multiple ones. As of 2026, our payment rate will increase from 2p to 3p per word.

Submissions should be uploaded using the online form here.  If you are unable to use the form, please e-mail fission@bsfa.co.uk and put 'Fission 6 Submission' in the subject header. Attach your story as a Word document - double spaced in a standard font (e.g. Times New Roman 12pt).

Important note on generative AI: We do not accept any work created or altered by generative 'AI', such as, but not limited to, Midjourney and ChatGPT.

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We are pleased to announce that Fission #4 has been shortlisted for Best Anthology in 2024 in the Aurealis Awards, and that one of its stories – ‘An Object of Vision’ by Guan Un – has been shortlisted for an individual award.

Fission aspires to grow to connect SFF communities around the world. 

Published Fission ebooks are available to members for free download at BSFA online. You can buy print paperbacks on Amazon.

• Fission #5
• Fission #4
• Fission #3
• Fission #2 Volume 2
• Fission #2 Volume 1
• Fission #1

Review copies? Email fission@bsfa.co.uk  

Fission #5 – And the winners are… !

After two intense months of reading nearly 450 submissions, over 1.3 million words to read, editors Eugen Bacon and Gene Rowe are thrilled to announce our 23 successful authors whose stories we very much enjoyed, and will appear in Fission #5.

•  Bob McHugh – The Right Idea
•  Richard Zwicker – Do We Have a Dimension for You
•  Christine Lucas – The Short Distance from Solidarity to Singularity
•  Lyle Hopwood – Hey, Marilyn
•  E.M. Faulds – Hand of Fire
•  Caroline Corfield – The Diner
•  Michael Bailey – Asymmetry in Love
•  Steve Rasnic Tem – To Drown
•  James Vescovi – My Canister and Me
•  J.L. Akagi – A Feast for the Space Junker’s Spouse
•  Rodrigo Culagovski – The Narrative Bias
•  Victoria N. Shi – milt
•  Gareth L. Powell – The Wind through the Tall Grass
•  Kenzie Lappin – Wilful Misinterpretation of a Thought Experiment
•  Tony Dunnell – Mantaro
•  Chris Hudson – Bertie and the Good Servant
•  Rik Hoskin – Safe Space
•  Stephen Cox – It’s Always Your Choice
•  Harry Slater – Washing Clothes in the River with Mother
•  D. Thomas Minton – Let’s Hear it for the Company Man
•  E. Florian Gludovacz – Ascension
•  Beatriz Alcaná – Something More of Me (Celsius Spanish trans. Mike Lucas)
•  Anna Clark – For All the Girls Seduced (Celsius swap)

Congratulations to all successful authors!

Fission #4 - and the winners are...!

After two intense months of reading 350 submissions, over 1.1 million words to read, editors Eugen Bacon and Gene Rowe are thrilled to announce our 23 successful authors whose stories we very much enjoyed, and now appear in Fission #4:

• Robert Bagnall, 'Formula 719: The Cure for Ennui'
• Caroline Corfield, 'The Printer'
• Barlow Crassmont, 'Falling Upwards'
• Sarina Dorie, 'Science Fiction Fairy Tales: Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Aladdin'
• J.D. Dresner, 'The Death Sentence'
• G.J. Dunn, 'Mirror Cast'
• Timons Esaias, 'Results'
• J.L. George, 'Digital Hell is Cold'
• Liam Hogan, 'Compatibility'
• Ian Li, 'Everyone is Dying to Work Here'
• Susan L. Lin, 'Moonshot: An Oral History of Our Solar System’s Great Lunar Uprising'
• Ashton Macaulay, 'The Manual'
• Remi Martin, 'The Performance of Your Life'
• Teresa Milbrodt, 'Dye Job'
• Templeton Moss, 'Nibor's Report'
• Carsten Schmitt, 'Wagner's Voice'
• Harry Slater 'There are Days When you Will be Terrified of Airplanes'
• Jeff Somers, 'Lone Star. Deep Black. Hum.'
• Jake Stein, 'Human Garbage'
• Ángel Luis Sucasas, 'Farewell' (CELSIUS, trans. by James Womack)
• Mark Thomas, 'Ransom'
• Guan Un, 'An Object of Vision'
• Robinne Weiss, 'Space Brat' (also nominated for CELSIUS story swap, Spanish translation)
• Cherry Zheng, 'The Summoner'.

BUY NOW! Fission #4 on Amazon

Fission #3 cover by South African author and artist, Stephen Embleton

Fission #3

Congratulations to the following authors whose stories are in Fission #3:

• Kevin Taylor - Rhombus, Kite, Triangle (Celsius swap - Spanish trans.)
• Fiona Moore - Daedalus’ Wings
• Desmond Astaire - It’s a Nash Equilibrium, Then
• Angela Liu - Happiness Quality Quotient
• Tony Jones - Fiat Nox
• Elaine McIonyn - And Will Be Used Against You
• Matt Thompson - Aria dell’Ostrica
• Sam Rugg - The Measure of a Men
• Melissa Ferguson - Phlogiston
• David Wright - Las Artes Hipnóticas (2032)
• Peter J. Carter - Douglas Allen: Galactic Attorney-at-Law
• Lyle Hopwood - The Burn Out
• Rob Butler - 100 Places to visit before you die: No. 97: The Moon
• Carol Ryles - Home is Where the Heart Was
• Morgan Parks - I Said Aliens
• Antonia Rachel Ward - Personification
• Ron Hardwick - Future Imperfect
• Marc A. Criley - Possumsaurus amicus
• C. L. Spillard - Sound of Mind
• Jason Fischer and Martin Livings - A City Beneath (And How to Hide From It)
• Eva Garcia Guerrero - The Precious Physical World (Celsius swap - English translation).

Fission #2 Volume 2

Congratulations to the following authors whose stories are in Vol. 2.

• Rob Nisbet, ‘A Brief History’
• David Gullen, ‘Bluebell Apocalypse’
• Nina Shepardson, ‘The First Contact Cookbook’
• Michael James, ‘Short Turn Memory’
• Redfern Jon Barrett, ‘The Past Made Flesh’
• Matt McHugh, ‘The Heart Knows Only That It Wants’
• Mark Thomas, ‘Mittens Aurelius: Meowditations’
• James Edward O’Brien, ‘Postmortem Mandy’
• Ray Daley, ‘I Hide Behind Cardboard Cliffs and Polystyrene Rocks’
• Bruce Golden, ‘Rite of Passage’
• Melissa Ferguson, ‘Deliquescence’
• Jason J. McCuiston, ‘An Enemy’s Wake’
• Peter Glazebrook, ‘Enturing Love’
• Fiona Moore, ‘The Little Friend’
• Matt Cahill, ‘Somewhere in a Dead Field’
• Ian C. Douglas, ‘Charles Darwin and the South Seas Monster’.

Fission #2 Volume 1

Congratulations to the following authors whose stories are  in Vol. 1:

• Ron Hardwick, ‘Sage and the Resurrection of Doctor Chronos’
• Aleksandra Hill, ‘Words of Advice at the End of the World’
• David Tallerman, ‘Face the Inevitable’
• Caroline Misner, ‘The Epsilon Requirement’
• Andrew Darlington, ‘Buffalo Soldiers’
• Peter Medeiros, ‘Bad Architecture’
• Tim O’Neal, ‘Otherworldly Jellyfish’
• Mary Soon Lee, ‘Truth Conquers All’
• Clare Turner, ‘In Person’
• Chinaza Eziaghighala, ‘Osimiri’
• Phil Nicholls, ‘Missy Hood Tweets’
• Maddison Stoff, ‘Zombie Harold Holt Returns to Parliament’
• K. C. Grifant, ‘Cynscout’
• Michael Noonan, ‘All the Time in the World’
• Ellen Denton, ‘The Portal’
• Ian Whates, ‘The FenZone’
  
• Jeffrey Somers, ‘Free from Want’
  
• Patricia García-Rojo, ‘The Fifth Awakening’ (CELSIUS, Translator: Mike Lucas)
  
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Fission #1

Our 2021 stories:

'The Aminals Marched in Two By Two' by Syeda Fatima Muhammad
'A Pall of Moondust' by Nick Wood
'Lyonesses' by So Mayer
'The Lego Calf' by Jon Bilbao
'The Witch and the Elderman' by Peter Haynes
'The Trip' by Michael Crouch
'Etaerio' by Rosie Oliver
'The First and Last Safe Place' by C. John Arthur
'Here' by Gene Rowe
'The Blood Between Us' by Katherine Franklin
'Wanderlust' by Eugen Bacon & E. Don Harp
'Time Keep' by Elad Haber
'Power of Attorney' by Louis Evans
'I Love Google Maps/Death to Google Part 1' by Paul Beacon

The story chosen to be published in Celsius is 'Lyonesses' by So Mayer.