Club Chicxulub’s namesake is the Chicxulub Impactor, the asteroid that plummeted to earth 66 million years ago, ending the reign of non-avian dinosaurs and the Cretaceous era. At least 75% of species on Earth perished. The Chicxulub Crater encompasses a 110 mile radius that straddles the Yucatán Peninsula and Gulf of Mexico. The crater is buried 2,000 feet beneath Yucatán Maya land. The crater’s geographic center lies under the towns Chicxulub Puerto and Chicxulub Pueblo, for which the asteroid and crater are named.
“Chicxulub” is a Yucatec Maya word that we’ve read translates to English ambiguously: “The devil’s tail” or “the devil’s flea.” We honor and respect the Yucatec Maya Peoples past, present, and future.
We teeter on the threshold of another mass extinction, driven by human-induced climate change. Club Chicxulub is a space to lament, to rage, to witness—and dare we try to spread some hope?—by way of dark and weird fiction and music. This is catharsis, dirge and celebration, submission and defiance.
We like sci-fi, slipstream, satire, steampunk, African- and Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurisms, gothic, ecological, pulp, fabulist, and horror fiction from a diversity of voices and identities. Check out our previous productions to get a feel of what we’re looking for.
We dislike homophobic, racist, misogynistic, ableist or otherwise prejudiced writing. Keep it to yourself and reconsider.
Please share your work. We are excited to hear and feel your presence. You are welcome in Club Chicxulub.
○ The journal: Artists worldwide are encouraged to submit writing, visual art, and hybrid work to our journal. We are looking for work ranging from flash up to 4,000 words, and for audio productions we choose work under 2,000 words.
○ The show: Writers are encouraged to submit work for our live performances in San Francisco to be scored by a bespoke, live soundtrack. We are looking for fiction with a dash of poetry that can be read in 10 minutes or less.
○ Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged! Let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere, and retract your submissions from other journals once we offer acceptance.
○ You can definitely submit to more than one category, but not multiple submissions to the same category. If you’ve been featured in Club Chicxulub lately, perhaps wait a few rounds before submitting again (we obviously still love you).
○ If you retain the rights and state the original publication in your cover letter, we will absolutely consider previously published work specifically for audio production!
○ We typically respond to submissions within a couple weeks after submissions close.
○ No need to submit work created partially or entirely by AI. Why not just delete it and call it a day?
See you April 19th, 7:00 at Ocean Ale House!
