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Here is the official call for the Wuxia & Xianxia special issue of Strange Horizons.
I'm so delighted to be guest editing it with Joyce and Mia.
I'm specifically looking for fiction, poetry, and translations of fiction/poetry from Chinese, so please do pass this submission call along to writers & translators who might be working on something that fits.
#submissions #sff @sffbipoc @sffshorts
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/azimuth/wuxia-xianxia-special-submissions-call/
We're especially interested in:
- Traditional and new approaches to wuxia and xianxia fiction
- Stories full of action, conflict, drama, and intrigue
- Rich, diverse, colourful, and nuanced worldbuilding, whether featuring the jianghu, a xianxia world, the imperial court, orother kinds of setting
- Unique approaches to classic wuxia themes like honour, free love, good versus evil, and individual choice versus fate
- Re-imaginings of what these genres look like in the 21st century
- Works that experiment with, subvert, and reinvent genre tropes, including in combination with other Sinophone literary traditions such as danmei, chuanyue (time travel), gong’an fiction (court case), and beyond
Please read the submission call carefully for more details on what each editor is looking for & the specific requirements.
Happy to answer questions~
If you want to know what I personally really want to see:
- wuxia/xianxia with time traveling (chuanyue) elements
- more wuxia/xianxia blended with danmei please!!!
- surprising twists on genre tropes, worldbuilding & more
- diaspora vibes & perspectives!! 
Also please get creative & bold with the poetry. There's a long tradition of xia poetry in Classical Chinese (and perhaps in translation, although that history is complicated) for you to draw on there and subvert as you wish.
Surprise me~