Deadline: July 1st, 2017.
Payment: Royalties and contributor’s copy

Details:

• Stories can be 2500 words to 10,000 words.
• The anthology will be published in ebook and paperback formats.
• We pay shared royalties (royalty split info available upon acceptance of story and before signing of contract). Authors will receive the e-book and one print copy of the anthology, plus wholesale pricing for additional print copies. This is considered token payment.
• Submissions must be previously unpublished.
• We are seeking twelve months of exclusive worldwide print and electronic distribution rights and non-exclusive worldwide print and electronic distribution rights in perpetuity.
• Multiple submissions are fine, but simultaneous submissions are discouraged. Please don’t re-submit a rejected story unless we request revisions.
• We hope to have responded to everyone within one month of the submission window’s closing. Feel free to query if it’s been longer than two months.
• Stories must be double spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font (or something similar). Do not submit in Courier. The story title, your byline, a word count, and contact information should appear on the first page, and your last name, story title, and page number should appear in the header information of all other pages. We’re not particular about whether you use italics or underlining for emphasis, how many spaces are after the period, or whether you use straight or smart quotes.
• Submissions may be sent to the email address: Submit your stories via email as an attachment in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. The subject of your email should be SUBMISSION: <story title> by <byline>. The email body should contain a short list of your publishing credits and any pertinent biographical details.
• The submission period ends July 1, 2017.

Theme guidelines

• The story must have a fantasy/speculative element. Science fantasy is ok, but we’re aiming for fantasy rather than straight science fiction. We prefer “clean” stories and strongly prefer noblebright stories. For more on noblebright, please see noblebright.org.
• The story must address the “Still Waters” theme in some way. Creative interpretation of the theme is encouraged. Some ideas are:
  • Still waters run deep.
  • He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. -Psalm 23:2
  • Water creatures (mermaids, naiads, kraken) and their environment.

Via: Spring Song Press.