We welcome craft essay submissions that explore the possibilities for speculation in nonfiction, or reflect on the role of speculative nonfiction in the wider field.

For an example, see Rachel Toliver's "Shifting Borders: Race, Class, and Speculative Placemaking" in issue #2 here. 

Writers are sometimes advised to write the book they'd most like to read. We invite you to write the book review of a book of speculative nonfiction you wish was out there, or a book that was never written but could have been, or a lost book of which there is scant evidence, or a book to be written in a hundred years. We invite you to consider the aesthetic qualities of this book and to use the opportunity of your review to push, adhere to, or reconsider the boundaries of speculation in nonfiction, as you see them. We see these reviews as furthering the conversation this journal seeks to encourage. We invite you to have fun. The limit is the limit of your speculation. Traditional reviews of nonfiction books that utilize speculation are also welcome.

Typically, we imagine these reviews will be no longer than 1000 words. Examples of the form can be found here.