[[Kel Coleman]] preferences: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/i/status/1438156983593484291) by [@kcolemanwrites](https://twitter.com/kcolemanwrites) on [[September 15th, 2021]]: - We open for food-themed submissions over at [@diabolicalplots](https://twitter.com/diabolicalplots) in a few weeks and I'm so hyped to be guest editing this issue!! I want your odd stuff--as always--but I also want your real and diverse stuff too. What do I mean by that? - 1/ - Give me your grad student with ADHD who keeps forgetting to eat whenever they sit down to work, so they modify the lab's helper bot to insist they break for lunch... with increasing urgency. - Give me your Grandma with her brown skin and freckles from gardening in the sun refusing to write down her recipe for zucchini bread... and now her grandchild has to perform literal magic because she's gone and they miss the taste of home. - Give me your queer family potluck gone horribly wrong when someone brings a dish in a pan they got from that secondhand store where you can always find exactly the item you're looking for, but the owner usually says something cryptic about things costing more than just money. - Give me stories about marginalized and underrepresented characters that have nothing to do with their identities. - Give me stories about marginalized and underrepresented characters that are all about their identities. - And please tell me what food means to you, by telling me what food means to them. - More details about this special issue and a link to our general guidelines here: - [First Reader Applications AND Upcoming Submission Windows – Diabolical Plots](https://www.diabolicalplots.com/first-reader-applications-and-upcoming-submission-windows/)