What if tomorrow were not only a source of dread (fascist creep, climate change, etc.) but a technology? A mechanism to imagine desirable futures? Not cloudseeding futures, or colonizing Mars, but queer and disabled futures. Feminist futures. Antiracist and intersectional futures. Sustainable futures. Futures without capitalism. What If Tomorrow invites you to imagine such futures as part of a collective effort to bring them about.

While this project invites your utopian thinking, it also allows for the realities of our dystopian present. We cannot ignore the violence that sits alongside abolition, the systematic -isms that thwart justice, and the urgencies (even insurgencies) that resist them. And besides, what if we want to eat the rich? What if we have to weep or howl - or laugh?

The prompt is simple. Write a piece that begins with those three words, “What if tomorrow…” Because genres are innumerable, there is only one restriction: it should be less than 700 words. We encourage you to privilege the specific over the general, the speculative over the broadside, the manifest over the manifesto.

Send your tomorrows to thefutureneverspoke [at] gmail [dot] com. Please paste your text directly into the body of your email and include a short 50-word bio with your submission.

What If | Tomorrow is edited by Erik Anderson.