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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 fiction, visual art, and hybrid work to our journal. We want anything from flash up to 3,500 words, and for audio production we tend to choose work under 2,000 words.
  • The show: Bay Area writers are encouraged to submit work for our Spring and Autumn live performances in San Francisco. We want pieces that can be read in under 10 minutes.
  • Simultaneous submissions are encouraged!
  • You can definitely submit to more than one category, but not multiple submissions to the same category. 
  • If you’ve been in Club Chicxulub lately, perhaps wait a few rounds before submitting again (we 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!
Submit your work for our Autumn journal! We are looking for both visual art and speculative fiction of all flavors from diverse creators anywhere in the world. We will also consider non-fiction pieces; essays on art or aesthetics, creative and fantastical first-hand accounts.

Submissions close October 1st, 2024.

The heart of Club Chicxulub is its fusion of fiction and music, contemporary radio plays à la War of the Worlds. We will choose several fiction pieces per issue to produce with a soundtrack.
This is an identity-hidden submission — DO NOT INCLUDE ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ANYWHERE IN YOUR DOCUMENT or IN THE DOCUMENT TITLE!
We put it to a vote: Until the year an autonomous synthetic being wanders the world, gets lost in sloppy feelings, makes big mistakes, breaks hearts, and then crafts it into beautifully shitty art, Club Chicxulub will not consider publishing AI generated content.

…however, once that year does arrive, we’re excited to consider content created by a fully independent synthetic lifeform.

*hoot hoot?*

*bleep boop boop*

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