Alien Baby Magazine is looking for short stories and art of young royals and their noble protectors!

Tell us about princes, princesses, and princexs, their grand adventures, and their brave companions. Stories can range from the hardest of sci-fi to the softest of fantasies or the scariest of horror tales. The story or art must focus on two main characters, one who is set to inherit great power, and another who has vowed to protect their companion. 

Submissions are free! We welcome stories featuring BIPOC, queer, ND & disabled young royals and their protectors.

Writing Submission Details

Alien Baby Magazine is seeking stories from emerging authors in speculative genres to feature in our very first anthology collection. The theme of this collection is Knights and Princesses.

We accept a wide definition of speculative genre work, including, but not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime. We encourage authors to be creative in how they approach the concepts of knights and princesses. Your knight could be a secret service agent, sworn to protect a secret alien princess on a trip to a backwater planet called ‘Earth’. Your princess could be the next CEO of a powerful corporation, threatened by mysterious forces. You decide!

Art Submission Details

Alien Baby Magazine is also seeking art from emerging artists in 2-D mediums to feature in our very first anthology collection. The theme of this collection is Knights and Princesses.

We accept a 2-D art depicting or interacting with the themes of knight and princess stories. We encourage artists to be creative in how they approach the concepts of knights and princesses. We will accept traditional and digital drawings, paintings, and renderings, as well as photography and photographed sculpture.

Contributors will be selected and announced Fall 2026. To be published by Alien Baby Magazine Spring 2027. More details coming soon.

Submission Guidelines

• Stories must be speculative fiction, i.e., it should contain one or more element that would be impossible in our real world

• Stories must focus on two characters, one who is on the precipice of inheriting great power and responsibility, the other who is sworn to protect them

• Stories should be no more than 10,000 words long

• Art must focus on themes and elements relating to knight and princess stories

• Stories and art should be new and original, although they can feature original characters or settings from previously published work by the author.

• All work must be original and IP belongs to the creator. No fan fictions or fan art, but AUs of your own novels and OCs are welcome!

• No stories or art may contain elements created by AIs or LLMs

• No works promoting real life bigotry or hate speech shall be considered

• No more than 1 story submission and 1 art submission per person

• Please submit stories as Word documents and art as high resolution JPG or PNGs

• File name should be LastName_TitleofPiece

• Email subject should be “Anthology Submission - Name”

• Email submissions at: alienbabymag@gmail.com

• If selected, Alien Baby Magazine requests non-exclusive world rights of your submission for publishing in the Knights and Princesses anthology in all languages and for all editions and formats. A contract will be sent out and must be signed before continuing with selection process. As compensation, you will receive $25.00 and a digital copy of the published anthology.

Stories and art will be reviewed anonymously by Alien Baby Magazine’s editing team, to ensure that they adhere to the requirements above. Editors reserve the right to reject works at their discretion. The editing team will work with authors on stories deemed “almost there” to revise and resubmit.

If you have any questions, please contact alienbabymag@gmail.com for more information.