$18,000 - Audiobook edition!

We want to be as inclusive as we can with this anthology and that means making the finished product as accessible as possible. We would love to produce an audiobook, but to do so to a professional standard costs more than our original budget allows. If we reach this stretch goal we will be able to produce a professional quality, studio-recorded audiobook.  If we reach this goal, everyone who has pledged $10 or higher will receive an audiobook version of the anthology.

We already have some great authors lined up to write stories for us, but we also want to hear from YOU. Upon the completion of this Pozible campaign, assuming we reach our goal, we will open a reading period from the start of May till the end of June. We are aiming to acquire 80,000 – 100,000 words of fiction and if you have a story that fits our theme, we'd love to see it. We will post more information to our backers and on our website towards the end of the campaign.

We have some exciting stories already lined up for Defying Doomsday, including works by:


A lifelong Amsterdammer, Corinne Duyvis spends her days writing speculative young adult and middle grade novels. She enjoys brutal martial arts and gets her geek on whenever possible. Otherbound, her YA fantasy debut, released from Amulet Books/ABRAMS in the summer of 2014. She is a co-founder of Disability in Kidlit and team member of We Need Diverse Books.


John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov's Science Fiction, Apex Magazine and Tor.com. His story "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.


Janet Edwards lives in England. As a child, she read everything she could get her hands on, including a huge amount of science fiction and fantasy. She studied Maths at Oxford, and went on to suffer years of writing unbearably complicated technical documents before deciding to write something that was fun for a change. She has a husband, a son, a lot of books, and an aversion to housework. Janet is the author of the Earth Girl trilogy.


Seanan McGuire was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel Feed (as Mira Grant) was named as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2010. In 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo Ballot. Her Newsflesh series, written as Mira Grant and beginning with the novel Feed, is set post-zombie apocalypse on a US presidential campaign trail, and features a character suffering from light sensitivity.

As well as publishing SFF fiction that supports positive storytelling for disabled characters, we want to encourage and support advocacy for greater diversity in SFF fiction. The Defying Doomsday Award will recognise work in disability advocacy in literature.

Pledge(s) at the Patron of Diversity level will contribute to the creation of a special award for disability advocacy. This award will recognise work in disability advocacy in SFF literature. Eligible works will include, but are not limited to: fiction, non fiction, writing, editing, publishing, reviewing, and podcasting.

Nominations will be encouraged to be submitted to the jury via the Defying Doomsday website in October of each year (starting in 2016), with the winner being announced on the website in December of that year.

The Defying Doomsday Award will be an annual shortlist and prize. The award jury will comprise Twelfth Planet Press publisher, Alisa Krasnostein, and Defying Doomsday editors, Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench.

The award will grant one winner per year for three years a cash prize of $200 in recognition of their work in disability advocacy in SFF literature. For each additional patron who pledges at this level, a further $200 will be added to the prize fund for each year. We reserve the right to discuss with the patrons how the additional money will expand the award (for example, it may be used for a bigger cash prize for the winner, or for additional cash prizes for additional runners-up).