Deadline: August 31st, 2020

Payment: Royalties

Theme: A Collection Of Viking Tales

A Collection of Viking Tales

Zimbell House is holding open submissions for short Viking tales that feature Reanna the Red. These tales must be about her leadership, heroics, and survival of her people. Your point of view character can be a bard telling of her exploits, her second in command explaining why they follow her, Reanna herself, or anyone that has witnessed her actions. However, once you pick a POV do not change it.

Let your imagination roam and put our readers in the middle of the action. Our readers want to feel the cold, smell the sea-spray, hear the village sounds. Our readers want to understand the gods that are worshipped, have a true sense of what daily life is like and what the stakes are.

• Please keep foul language to a minimum-it loses its punch if over-used.
• Dialogue needs to be believable, and please keep dialects/slang to a bare minimum if you must use them.
• No head-hopping or POV changes. Pick one point of view and stick with it.
• Please show more of the action than just telling the reader what happens.

Submissions of both short stories and novellas to this anthology are welcome, please keep in mind the minimum word count is 4,500 and the maximum word count is 19,500.

This anthology is a great opportunity to showcase emerging writers and allow them to build their professional platforms.

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020, with a targeted release date of late October 2020.

Submit your best work. Poorly formatted and unedited work will be turned down. Please use Americanized English spellings. We will be doing light editing as necessary to fit the standards we strive to maintain.

Submission Guidelines:

• Any work under 4,500 words will be automatically disqualified for this anthology.
• The work must not have appeared in print or online anywhere before.
• All submissions must be in English.
• Each author may submit up to three (3) unique works—please submit them separately.
• Work must be in Microsoft Word or RTF, double-spaced, 12-point font-no headers/footers.

All contributing authors will receive a free copy of the book in softcover.  Authors that are chosen for the anthology will not be paid nor receive royalties for their submission. This is an opportunity to build your platform.

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020.