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Taking Submissions: Tumblr-Twist Anthology
November 30, 2017
Deadline: November 30th 2017
Payment: $25
There’s a Tumblr post that goes around Facebook every few years—about how much the OP wants an epic fantasy where the “chosen one” is a retired grandma with a lifetime of experience who goes on her quest with her knitting bag, two cats, and an attendant to manage her medications.
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If you aren’t on Tumblr you may not know that there is practically a genre of Tumblr posts about “stories I want to see.” Most of them twists on common tropes and classic character types.
Here are a few examples*:
- Post-Apocalyse with Disabled Main Characters
- Where do mermaids come from?
- World-saving scars
- Grandma: werewolf savior
- Tiny dragon defends his hoard
- Non-Angsty Vampires (for oh-so-many reasons)
Your Mission: Should You Choose to Accept It
Write a story either based on a Tumblr-twists or whose premise would make a great Tumblr-twist.
Submit it to us on or before November 30th 2017.
The Details
Length: 4,000-25,000 words
Pays: on publication, $25 per accepted story
Cover letter should include: Your name/pen name, the title of the story, word count, and either a link to the Tumblr-twist that inspired the story or one-line premise that you think would make a good Tumblr-twist.
Submission method: email – [email protected]
Remember to use standard manuscript format
Rights: Electronic Anthology Rights, non-exclusive. Reprints welcome.
Increase Your Chance of Getting Accepted
Write an inclusive story
Watch your tropes
Don’t be the 12th person to send us a Tiny Dragon story—we love the examples we gave, but there are lots more Tumblr-twists out there. (That said, if you have an epic tiny dragon story—send it!)
*where possible we have linked to the original post and/or the earliest post that fully encapsulated the idea. Sometimes the OP had closed their account and we needed to link to one of the re-blogged versions of the post.
Via: Cuil Press.
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Stuart Conover is a father, husband, published author, blogger, geek, entrepreneur, horror fanatic, and runs a few websites including Horror Tree!