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Taking Submissions: Ugly Babies

September 25, 2013

ugly-babies

Deadline: September 25th 2013
Payment: There will be two Editor’s Choice Awards for $25 each. Each Editor’s Choice Award winner will receive a free contributor paperback copy and $25. Cash award is payable via PayPal only and will be made approximately 65 days from publication of the anthology. “Editor’s Choice Award Winner” will be posted under the author’s name where the piece is placed inside the anthology. All contributors will earn a free Kindle edition of the anthology.

There’s nothing quite like the birth of a child. Children are born in our likenesses… we treasure their beauty, their innocence, and marvel as they take their first breaths outside of their mother’s womb. In a perfect world, babies are miracles. But as we know, the world is not always perfect.

“… then something like a stick insect, enormous bulging eyes among stiff fragilities that were limbs… a small girl all blurred, her flesh guttering and melting… a doll with chalky swollen eyes, its eyes wide and blank, like blue ponds, and its mouth open, showing a swollen little tongue. A lanky boy was skewed, one half of his body sliding from the other. A child seemed at first glance normal, but then Harriet saw there was no back to its head; it was all face, which seemed to scream at her.”
— from Doris Lessing’s Fifth Child

What happens when we allow ourselves to conceptualize the horrible possibilities — the terrifying consequences of childbirth gone wrong — the unimaginable monstrosity that might be born into this world, or perhaps another — the worst case scenario of what could but shouldn’t be?
UGLY BABIES — the anthology.
Bring us your ruminations on the abnormal, the abominations, the grotesque, the downright appallingly hideous children your dark minds can conceive… from the time of conception to the age of five. Show us your Ugly Babies.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Word Counts:
Flash Fiction: up to 1,000 words
Poetry: any length
Short fiction: up to 5,000 words (Please query first for longer work)

Multiple Submissions: Yes
Simultaneous Submissions: Preferably not, but please include the fact that it is a simultaneous submission in your email and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Reprints: Query first

Please use 12 pt. Palatino Linotype or Times New Roman, double spacing, no headers, footers, or page numbers. Please use Italics, not underlining.

All other formatting should follow Standard Manuscript Format guidelines found at http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

Acceptable File Formats:
*.doc *, *docx, *.rtf,

Artwork and high resolution photography should be submitted in the following file format:
*.jpg, *jpe, *jpeg

Artwork and photography will appear in grayscale in the paperback. Digital versions of the book will be featured in color.

Send any questions about the formatting of your manuscript or artwork to [email protected]

All submissions should be attached in an email to [email protected]

Subject line should read: UGLYBABIES/YOUR NAME/TITLE/SUBMISSION TYPE

Please include email address in your email submission as well as a bio and word count.

Acceptances and rejections will go out as work is reviewed.

Deadline: September 25th or until filled.

Payment: There will be two Editor’s Choice Awards for $25 each. Each Editor’s Choice Award winner will receive a free contributor paperback copy and $25. Cash award is payable via PayPal only and will be made approximately 65 days from publication of the anthology. “Editor’s Choice Award Winner” will be posted under the author’s name where the piece is placed inside the anthology. All contributors will earn a free Kindle edition of the anthology.

Rights:
First Worldwide Anthology Rights, for publication in the English language anywhere in the world and electronic publication rights. All rights return to the author upon publication of the anthology.

[via: JWK Fiction.]

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Date:
September 25, 2013