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Deadline: March 1st, 2017 Payment: $0.01USD per word, optionally more for certain factors Announcing Radiant Crown Publishing’s upcoming anthology of dieselpunk fiction, featuring art from the premiere dieselpunk artist, Gaslandia! SUBMISSIONS WINDOW January 1st, 2017- March 1st, 2017 Anything submitted outside of this window will be deleted unread. THEME ISBN-13: Coming Soon ISBN-10: Coming Soon Gaslandia is an upcoming anthology of speculative, mysterious, and romantic dieselpunk adventures! Framed as a book of legends told during an air raid, each story should have a 1920s-1950s pop culture aesthetic not necessarily restricted to a North American audience. Critical nostalgia is key. Don’t feed us the same old tired tropes without engaging the past in new ways. We want sprawling metropolises teeming with innovation, undiscovered frontiers in the depths of the oceans, and the vastness of the open skies re-imagined. Pack your stories full of locomotives, speakeasies, radios, spies, telegraphs, gangsters, submarines, world fairs, skyscrapers, inequality, warfare, and magic that dazzled and divided the world. Deadline March 1st, 2017 11:59 EST. INSPIRATION Snowpiecer (Movie) Last Exile (Animation) Children of the Sun (RPG) Jean “Mœbius” Giraud (Comics) Sunrise: A Dieselpunk Fantasy (CYOA) Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual (Illustrated Serial Fiction) RIGHTS SOUGHT FOR FICTION Non-exclusive archival rights as long as the website(s) hosting the work are online If an audiobook is produced, payment is $0.01USD per word for non-exclusive electronic audio rights First world electronic and print rights in English with exclusivity for 8 months from the date of publication Copyright remains with the author at all times Please query if anything listed is of concern. Here is a good explanation of what this entails. LENGTH & GUIDELINES SHORT STORIES: 1001 to 7,499 words. Paid $0.01USD per word. NOVELETTE: 7,500 to 17,499 words. Paid $0.01USD per word. NOVELLA: 17,500 to 40,000 words. Paid $0.01USD per word....

Deadline: March 1st, 2017 for the First Round! Prizes: Grand Prize: Book Contract and a TON of mini-prizes! (Read below!) Are you a horror writer who dreams of seeing their work in print? Are you willing to perform challenges to win a book contract? Do you have at least one horror novel to pitch? Then you might be the… NEXT GREAT HORROR WRITER! Enter to compete in the HorrorAddicts.net horror writing contest! This contest is free to enter. Grand Prize (one lucky and talented writer will receive): Novel/book contract. Free edit of novel up to 50,000 words. Short story contract with HorrorAddicts.net “Horror Bites” series. Horror Writer gift box. Supplies and inspiration for the Next Great Horror Writer. Mini-Prizes- Episode specific (one winner from each challenge will receive one of the following): A read of your work for podcast and promotion Feature on another horror news podcast of your non-fiction work Audio drama produced for podcast and promotion 4 different publication contracts for shorts. A sketch of your character by an anime artist. Short story contract with HorrorAddicts.net “Horror Bites” series. More! *Note: Unlike some previous HorrorAddicts.net contests, you will not be required to produce fiction audio for this contest. The only audio involved in this contest is in the form of interviews with HorrorAddicts.net staff. The contest will be based on your ability to write. Professional writers, editors, artists, and movie industry people will be involved in the judging including, but not limited to: Author Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate, Silver Kiss, Freaks. Crystal Lake Publishing and owner Joe Mynhardt Producer, Director, Writer Frank H. Woodward, Men in Suits, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown DJ & Horror Host The Count, Cemetery Confessions, The Requiem & The Belfry Network Author & Editor Dairo Ciriello, Panverse Publishing, Aegean Dream, Black Easter...

Deadline: March 1st, 2017 Payment: Unlisted but "will always meet or exceed SFWA minimum compensation guidelines" Retro Future Open Submissions Retro Future is a bi-monthly pulp magazine that searches for diverse, surprising, and progressive science fiction in art, prose, essay, and comics. Issue #3: "Games" - March 1, 2017 Issue #3: Video games, gaming, and competition. Submissions Guidelines We welcome submissions of art and writing that approaches retrofuturism through a progressive lens. Essays and flash fiction of approximately 250-500 words is especially welcome; longer works may be serialized. Comic submissions should be 1-8 pages of finished work. Anything longer may get serialized across multiple issues. Please note that inside art should be in grayscale (please refer to art and comic templates for details.) Galileo Books acquires first serial rights; upon publication, these rights revert back to you, the author. We ask that you acknowledge Retro Future (Galileo Books) as the venue of original publication when the work appears in your book or is otherwise collected. If a work becomes unavailable while under our review, please contact us via email. Submitted work for specific issues may be considered for other issues if themes fit. Art and comic templates are located here. Please make sure that art finals are high resolution (at least 300 DPI), in the RGB or Grayscale color space, and native Photoshop or TIFF files. No JPG or GIF. (Dropbox will ask you to join, you can ignore that and click the 'continue to download' link) Written material should be attached to the email in TXT, RTF or Word formats. Retro Future is a progressive publication. Subjects such as sexual violence, un-examined racism, and other potentially offensive material are often used as fodder for exposition in genre stories–this is not appropriate for inclusion in Retro Future. We are looking for forward-looking and...

Deadline: March 1st, 2017 Payment: $25 or $100 depending on Kickstarter. Attention Authors! We are soliciting short stories by new and established authors in the military-fiction genre, between 3,500 and 7,000 words in length. At least ten entries will be selected for publication* in a short-story anthology, to be funded with a Kickstarter project. At least three entries will be selected from among those received before the Kickstarter goes live. Payment to the selected authors will depend on the success of the Kickstarter. If it funds, authors will receive a minimum of $100 each (max $1,000). If it fails, authors will receive $25 each, paid out of my pocket. (Sign up here if you want to know when the Kickstarter goes live.) Submission Rules How to submit: Email your manuscript (acceptable document formats: Word, PDF, Pages, TXT, RTF) to the following address: milfic at orenlitwin dot com. Begin the subject line with “”, and make sure to list contact information in the email itself. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2017. Genre: Military fiction, broadly defined. So resistance fighters against Nazis in Warsaw or a tyrannical government in Ohio would qualify, as would English longbowmen or samurai. “Near-future” speculative fiction is acceptable if set within the next decade. Supernatural or fantasy elements do not qualify for this anthology—if you are interested in those or other genres, please suggest them for our next project! Prompt: “The odds are against us.” (In particular, Mary-Sue or Rambo type characters who crush the opposition without effort are strongly discouraged. The protagonist(s) must face the likelihood of failure.) Note: actual combat is not necessary. Day-in-the-life stories, or the travails of the humble logistics officer, or other stories not involving violence, are perfectly acceptable as long as they make good reading. DETAILS Entries must be your own work, must be previously unpublished,...