Submissions must be in English and written to the highest quality you are capable. Avoid passive voice. Consider making a pass with an editor before submission.
Maximum Word Count is 10,000, however I’m not going to turn away something awesome that’s a little over.
This is a paid market anthology, with a royalty cut for each author. Details available upon request.
Each author retains all rights to their story.
All submissions will be edited and sent to the author for final approval before publication.
Open internationally, but submission must be in American English.
There is no fee to submit.
Please, no reprints or simultaneous submissions.
Multiple submissions accepted. Limit of two submissions per author.
Any genre is fine. However, we are not looking for nonfiction at this time.
Adult language and sexual situations are permitted.
Standard submission format is accepted, or please send in WORD doc or docx, formatted with; 12pt Times New Roman with 1.5-line spacing; left justified with 0.3″ indents on the first line of each new paragraph (Do NOT use TAB); no extra spacing between paragraphs; and no headers/footers/page numbers; one space at the end of a sentence, not two.
To submit, please send your story to [email protected] and include the following information in the body of the email:
Author (Legal) Name: Pseudonym (if applicable): Email: Story Title: Word Count: Short Summary: 3rd Person Biography:
Deadline: December 15th, 2017
Payment: $0.02 cent a word paid on publication + shared royalties.
B Cubed Press is accepting short story submissions for “After the Orange,” an original science fiction and fantasy anthology about the post-Trump world.
The Premise:
The Trump Presidency has come and gone. Has this invoked the Trump Dynasty or has it spawned a return to core values, a hedonistic paradise or what? Truly, what does the future, the post Trump future hold?
What We Want:
We are looking for near- or farther-future stories, society as it is AFTER 2032 – at least two presidential election cycles after Donald Trump’s last eligibility. Show us America or the world in a new era, or look at world politics changed by the actions of US policies and people. Or go beyond.
Stories may present an optimistic or pessimistic, utopian or apocalyptic visions of the future, with some clear connection to current events and the world as it is in 2017. Political shenanigans would be interesting, as well as romance, spooks, robots and evil overlords, satire or parodies. But remember, the world has moved on. The editors generally favor character- and/or plot-driven stories.
Deadline: December 1st, 2017
Payment: Royalty Split
We’re putting together an anthology of delicious cozy mystery stories!
The long of it:
Imagine yourself in your favorite chair. There’s a cat in your lap, a fire in the fireplace, and on the little table at your elbow, your favorite hot drink. The book in your hand is a cozy.
A cozy is a mystery, which, of course, means a tale of crime and intrigue. Often that crime is murder. But although the circumstances surrounding the crime can be ugly, that ugliness—as well as any attendant sex, violence, or cruelty–takes place offstage. Instead, the crime is treated as a puzzle, and the sleuth, a charming amateur, is the hero.
Many cozies take place in small, pleasant towns. Many have female sleuths. Quite a few are organized around themes, such as crafts, hobbies, food, or pets. If your mystery has a recipe or a crime-solving ferret, it’s a cozy, and we’d like to see it.
The short of it: 2K-10K words
Deadline: December 1, 2017
Payment: share of royalties
A few rules:
§ Plot must center on a crime and its solution
§ Amateur sleuth
§ No graphic sex, violence, cruelty, or strong language (including slurs and epithets)
§ Previously unpublished authors welcome
§ Writers from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to submit
And, there must be a cupcake somewhere in the story.
What this means is up to you. Does the main character own a cupcake shop? Is the cupcake a murder weapon? Is the victim’s nickname “cupcake”? Does the villain leave a trail of cupcake crumbs wherever they go?
Use your imagination, and send us your best. editorjessfaraday at hotmail.com
Light Space
Elm Books is looking for short story submissions for our next Science Fiction & Fantasy collection. We are interested in short stories (no more than 15,000 words) featuring heroic PROTAGONISTS WITH DISABILITIES (broadly defined) and that fall within ANY SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY SUB GENRE. Stories may be soft or hard science fiction, fantasy, or slipstream. We are particularly interested in anthropological, feminist, and speculative work that will keep us turning pages in the wee hours. Last time, we received a number of submissions that were quite dark in tone. We are VERY interested, this time, in light and humorous stories. Odd is also always good.
Deadline:December 1, 2017
Undeath and the Age of Steam
We’re looking for Steampunk stories—specifically, mysteries that take place in a Steampunk setting. A mystery is the story of a crime and its solution. As for Steampunk, you can find a good, concise description at Steampunk.com. Supernatural elements are welcome.
Here are the particulars:
Length: Maximum 10,000 words. Deadline: Contact Jess Faraday immediately if you have a story for this collection – we will be going to press soon! Submit to: editorjessfaraday at hotmail.com
Format: paperback and e-book Payment: share of royalties plus author copies Contract: we use a modified EPIC contract.
Additional Information:
A lot of Steampunk focuses on the European experience. Elm Books is dedicated to promoting diverse authors and stories. Priority will be given to stories that feature characters from traditionally underrepresented groups—main characters of color, female protagonists, differently-abled main characters, LGBTQ main characters, and so on. Also, priority will be given to stories set outside of Europe, especially those examining colonialism from a non-European perspective.
We will not print stories containing graphic sex or violence.
Deadline: September 30th, 2017
Payment: Royalty Split
Announcing NOIRVILLE an exciting new competition for crime fiction authors.
We get hundreds of submissions every week and in among all the novels we’ve noticed an increasing number of writers pitching short stories to us – at Fahrenheit we’re passionate about giving new talent a chance to break through so we thought what better way to kill two birds with one stone?
So how is it gonna work?
Simple. The best 12 stories (as chosen by our panel of judges) will be published in Fahrenheit’s first short story collection NOIRVILLE which will be published in both eBook & paperback towards the end of 2017.
Who are the judges?
Rather than the usual publishing industry suspects we’ve compiled a panel of judges made up of four of the very best book bloggers around. As an added bonus, Jo Perry, Fahrenheit’s very own High Priestess Of Noir, has agreed to chair the judging panel.
Unlike most short story competiions this one is FREE TO ENTER and winning authors will be paid royalties on their stories.
The Rules
You know we hate rules so we’ve tried to keep this simple….
1} Stories must be LESS THAN 7500 words in length
2) Stories must NOT have been previously published.
3) Stories must be set firmly in the Crime/Thriller genre.
4) Existing Fahrenheit authors are very welcome to submit entries but the judges will be voting blind so there will be zero chance of preferential treatment.
5) This is meant to fun so use your common sense, stick to the rules, and don’t be a dick.
6) ALL our decisions are final and if you don’t like it go tell your momma cause she’s the only one who cares.
A Robotic/Computer Dystopia. The machines are our overlords…tell us about it.
Season Three Submission Deadline: December 31st, 2017
How to submit:
At the moment, we are accepting submissions through our Online Submission Form. Only submissions through the online submission form will be accepted.
What we’re looking for:
We will be publishing 3 SEASONS of genre anthologies each year. Each Season will have its own theme. See the SEASONS page to see what seasons we are currently looking for and what seasons have past. We will also be publishing other anthologies, so feel free to send us work at anytime. We will post if and when we have themes for other anthologies. We publish anthologies with Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror themes.
Please note that we do not consider novel excerpts, or anything with illustrations or photographs.
Our anthologies will be available in paperback and ebook formats exclusively through Amazon.
What’s the deadline?
Check the SEASONS page for each seasons deadline. Otherwise, please feel to send us other work that may be great for another anthology as we will be publishing others.
International submissions:
We’re based in the US but we accept submissions from authors all over the English-speaking world.
Rights
We ask for first serial rights on any story we publish. This means that the story should not have appeared anywhere else, either in print or online. (This includes publication on an author’s own website.) When we publish a story, we ask for a brief period of exclusivity (roughly 18 to 24 months), and the right to keep the story in print. We do not place any limits on what you can do with your story after the exclusivity period.
Word count
We are able to consider stories for publishing on the site that are between 1,000 and 20,000 words in length; please do not send anything longer than this. Stories shorter than 1000 words may be considered for extra exclusive content when the season is published in book format. (Most of the stories have been submitted so far are between about 2,000 and 7,000 words.)
Do you get paid?
Each story once published to the site will come with a listing of how to find everything from that author and a weeks paid advertising to help drive traffic. Once the Season is finished and published in book format with exclusives added 50% of the profits will be deducted for charity, 10% will go to our editors and 40% will be split between the authors to be paid quarterly.
Submission fee…
Yeah, we don’t have one of those.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions:
Please feel free to send us more than one story at a time. We do have a limit of 3 submissions per day. Please send each story through the form one at a time, and not together in one document.
We do understand if you want to submit to more than one outlet at a time. However, please let us know if a story you’ve submitted to us has been accepted elsewhere!
Our response times:
We aim to reply to all submissions within three weeks, although sometimes we may fall behind.
If you’re waiting for a reply from us, please keep an eye on your promotions and junk mail folder, as our replies can sometimes make their way there. If you have submitted a story and not heard from us after 4 weeks, please check your spam/junk mail folder again. If there’s nothing there, email us: [email protected] Please include your name and story title.
Deadline: September 30th, 2017
Payment: $5.00 flat rate plus equal share of 50% of the anthology’s royalties.
Welcome to the Fluffy Bunny
The Fluffy Bunny? You say?
What kind of name is that for an adventurer’s bar?
Well, it’s not only the name of the bar it’s also the name of that blade you see hanging over the bar. The blade I used to slay
the ancient dragon Thorenoak.
All adventurers are welcome here. But I have found the ones who are truly the bravest are not those who give themselves or
their weapons grandiose names. They are the ones who are reluctant to tell their stories. However, the best stories come
from the ones who have silly nicknames – like The Fluffy Bunny.
So pull up a chair and tell us how your weapon earned its name. First drink is on the house. And depending on the quality of
the tale another may follow as well.
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What we are looking for are Fantasy stories that feature your main character telling a tale about how they or their weapon
earned their name. Humor is a plus.
All stories need to start with: “This is my tale…”
Please note the editor will be adding a frame to each story to maintain the illusion the story is taking place in The Fluffy
Bunny and is being told to the bartender/patrons therein. You do not need to add any elements/breaks in the story – just tell
the story about your hero and/or their weapon’s silly nickname.
Break the story-writing rules if you want. If you use a tried and true plotline, twist it in an original and interesting way.
Original stories are preferred. Query for reprints.
ALL writers are encouraged to submit. Doesn’t matter if you’re a pro with years of credits, a beginner just starting out, or a
teenager – please feel free to send the editor a story. In your cover email, please tell the editor a bit about yourself and a quick
one-line synopsis of the story. Include genre. If experimental, please explain the type or how so the editor doesn’t edit out the
form or reject it out of hand. Thank you.
In the Subject line please put Submission: Fluffy Bunny: Title of your story: Your name. Attach as an .rft file, please send to: [email protected]
Submissions Open: June 15th (DO NOT SUBMIT PRIOR TO THIS DATE)
Submissions Close: September 30th
Release Date: Late 2017 / Early 2018
Payment: $5.00 flat rate plus equal share of 50% of the anthology’s royalties.
Will accept Fantasy
No fan fiction, shared universes, or continuing serials. PG-13 rating, please. No erotica.
No simultaneous submissions.
Length 1000-7500 words. Will consider flash fiction if it’s well-written. Times Roman 12.
Standard manuscript submission formatting must be used. Any manuscripts submitted incorrectly will be rejected.
Bios will be required if your story is accepted. Please write them in third person. Approximate length under 250 words.
