Calls for Reviews & Essays: October 2026

ARB publishes reviews and essays on a wide range of speculative topics, including science fiction & fantasy, weird fiction, and their relation to utopian impulses. ARB is also always interested in reviews of nonfiction broadly related to those topics, written for an interested general audience. If you are interested in writing for ARB, please check out our Procedures & Style Guide, and pitch us using the form below! For reviews, here are some titles coming out in October that we’d be interested in covering: Fiction Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends by A.D. Sui Quaint Folk by Bitter Karella A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School by Kuzhali Manickavel The Angel at the Gates by Karen Lord Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer Dead Batteries by Kate Maupin The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest by Alejandra Kamiya, translated by Daniel Hahn Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw Thousands…