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Taking Submissions: December Tales II
July 15, 2023
Deadline: July 15th, 2023
Payment: $25
Theme: Ghost stories where the supernatural isn’t explained
Submissions open June 1, 2023 through July 15, 2023.
Contact: [email protected]
Estimated Publication Date: November 2023.
Story Length: Between 2,000 and 3,500 words. (Hard Limits. Nothing above or below will be considered.)
Stories need not take place in December, but all stories must be ghost stories—no supernatural explained. (With apologies to Ann Radcliffe.) Fiction only. No gore, no rape, no gratuitous sex, no agendas, just your best chilling ghost story.
New stories preferred. Edits to style, story, and sentence structure may be required. If you’re not open to considering edits, please do not submit.
Reprints of exceptional stories will be considered. If your story is a reprint, please include its complete publication history.
Please submit your story as a Word.doc or Word.docx file. Please include your name and story’s name in email’s title.
PLEASE USE INDENTS AND NOT TABS TO SET PARAGRAPHS.
Payment: $25 US (through PayPal or Venmo) per accepted story for worldwide publication, English language rights. (Author retains story copyright.)
Apologies, but this anthology MAY be eBook format only, so no free author copies.
General Submission Guidelines:
Word.doc or Word.docx format.
Double spaced, New Times Roman font, 12 pt preferred.
PLEASE USE INDENTS AND NOT TABS TO SET PARAGRAPHS.
If you’re a published author, please include your publication history.
If you aren’t a published author, fear not. Curious Blue Press was created with you in mind.
Send your submission to [email protected].
You will not receive an acknowledgment of receipt, so if it’s been more than six weeks without a response, please feel free to nudge. (Seriously, the goal is to get back to you with an acceptance or nonacceptance within two weeks.)
Regarding nonacceptance: Please don’t take it personally. A nonacceptance doesn’t mean you’re a bad writer or that your story is bad. It only means it isn’t a fit for the project being compiled.
Via: Curious Blue Press.
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Selene MacLeod is a night operator and sometime writing hobbyist. She holds a BA in Communications from Wilfrid Laurier University and resides in Kitchener, Ontario. Her work has appeared in several horror and crime fiction anthologies, most recently Shotgun Honey, Drag Noir (Fox Spirit Books); and the upcoming Freakshow: Freakishly Fascinating Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Copper Pen Press), and Tragedy Queens (Clash Media).She’s most excited about editing a charity anthology for Nocturnicorn Books called Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, due out late 2017.
