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Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly. Calling all writers: Announcing the start of Dark Hall's first short story competition! Now through August 1st (2013) we will be accepting short Ghost stories for possible inclusion in a late summer anthology. Ten slots are available, and the contest will be highly competitive. The base concept for these stories is ghostly happenings, but this is open for broad interpretation, and there are no rules for where you take your story. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, submitted in PDF format, and include a brief author bio and contact information. Please include the word GHOST in the e-mail heading. We cannot accept previously published material. Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly. Winners will be contacted after August 1st. In submitting work for consideration we ask that writers include the first chapter/section of their project, a brief (one page) synopsis of the overall work, and some background information on themselves. PDF format preferred. Note that we will not entertain simultaneous submissions. Response time is generally one week. Direct all submissions to: [email protected]

Deadline: August 1st, 2013 Payment: $10 from Enchanted Conversation and paperback copy of the anthology from World Weaver Press Anthologist: Kate Wolford You know the Jolly Old Elf of Christmas, right? Of course you do. You can’t avoid him. Yet, Santa Claus isn’t just a kindly old expert at breaking and entering and leaving gifts he didn’t actually buy for the children of a house. At least he isn’t in Austria and many other parts of Europe. In these ancient places, where, perhaps, the old, old gods still add a touch of mischief, Krampus is the angry, punishing sidekick of St. Nicholas (Santa’s counterpart in much of Europe). Known for his willingness to punish rotten children, Krampus might even be considered Santa’s dark side or evil twin. Krampus is the sort of guy more and more North Americans want to explore. He’s definitely having a moment this side of the Atlantic. To that end, World Weaver Press and Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine are pleased to announce a joint venture: An anthology of Krampus short stories. Although the book is yet to be named, we hope you’ll explore every possible Krampus angle via short stories. He’s a nasty old dude, and we hope your imaginations will get the better of you. Rights and compensation: Payment: $10 from Enchanted Conversation and paperback copy of the anthology from World Weaver Press. We are looking for previously unpublished works in English. We are seeking first world rights in English and exclusive right to publish in print and electronic format for six months after publication date, after which publisher retains nonexclusive right to continue to publish for life of the anthology. Open submission period: June 15 – August 1, 2013. Length: Under 10,000 words. Submission method: Email cover letter and story to enchantedconversation...

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly Calling all writers: Announcing the start of Dark Hall's first short story competition! Now through August 1st (2013) we will be accepting short Ghost stories for possible inclusion in a late summer anthology. Ten slots are available, and the contest will be highly competitive. The base concept for these stories is ghostly happenings, but this is open for broad interpretation, and there are no rules for where you take your story. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, submitted in PDF format, and include a brief author bio and contact information. Please include the word GHOST in the e-mail heading. We cannot accept previously published material. Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly. Winners will be contacted after August 1st. PDF format preferred. Note that we will not entertain simultaneous submissions. Response time is generally one week. Direct all submissions to: [email protected]

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: 20% of the total profit will be paid for each accepted story (at quarterly intervals; if more than five stories are accepted, they will be placed in another anthology in this series. We’d dislike reducing your pay) Read the giant quote. It’s required. “Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. . . .The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys lost.”— J.R.R. Tolkein, “On Fairy-Stories” See that quote? I could go on for a dozen pages, pussy-footing ‘round what we want; but there, in Tolkien’s seven lines of text, is exactly what we want in every way—the adventure, the fantastic, the allencompassing sehnsucht. The tone and style. Everything we wish is hidden there. We aren’t looking for a Tolkien rehash, mind. We want stories that comfortably fit into the subgenre made up of Silverlock, Stardust, Watership Down, Wind in the Willows, Labyrinth, G. K. Chesterton's entire output from The Innocence of Father Brown to Orthodoxy, Gaiman’s The Sandman, The Hobbit, The Silver Chair, the first few chapters of The Last Unicorn (before everything descends into fairy tale questioning madness—for when fairy tales are questioned, there is nothing left but barbarities), Tangled, and Anastasia,...

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: $20 Our first book is a sort of companion piece to our wildly popular short story collection from SHB’s own D.F. Noble, SCARY F*CKING STORIES. Only this time, we’re collecting THE strangest fiction from the most talented authors in weirdo underground horror fiction. This anthology is called STRANGE F*CKING STORIES. We are looking for stories that will leave the readers scratching their heads asking, wait, what the f*ck did I just read? And by that, we do NOT mean experimental, stream-of-consciousness, or surreal fiction. We’re looking for STRONG characters, STRONG plots and STRONG conflict, only the weirdest characters, plot and conflict you can dream up. Make em scary, funny, sexy, gross, haunting, whatever, as long as it leaves us questioning our sanity and yours! -5,000 to 8,000 words. -.doc format ONLY! That means ONLY! -double spaced. -emailed as attachement to StrangeHouseSubmissions (At) Gmail.com. -In the body of the email, please put your contact information. -The subject of the email should read: submission title-your name-story title-word count. -NO TABS! Use your word processor’s paragraph settings to create paragraphs -No simultaneous submissions. That doesn’t mean submit it to 3 or 4 places and tap your foot while you impatiently wait for our response and then send us a really apologetic email when your story gets picked up by another publisher. it means NO simultaneous submissions. Sometimes we work slow, sometimes it takes 30-60 days AFTER the deadline for us to choose ALL of the stories for our anthologies. Just because you haven’t heard back from us yet, doesn’t mean we haven’t already selected your story for the book. Telling us it got picked up by someone else first does not a happy publisher make. Are we clear on that one? Good. Deadline is August 1st 2013. Payment...

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: $20 Our second new anthology is a book that originally started as a quick turnaround passion project for Kevin Strange. Well, after sitting on it for the better part of the year, Strange has decided to turn it into a full fledged anthology set for release on November 1st 2013! A VERY STRANGEHOUSE CHRISTMAS is a dark, twisted, bizarre vision of Strange’s favorite holiday. Write a story about a savage viking Santa Clause, write about the murderous rampage of Frosty the Snow man or ghastly child eating elves from the north pole. Make it dark, make it scary, and by all means make it STRANGE! -5,000 to 8,000 words. -.doc format ONLY! That means ONLY! -double spaced. -emailed as attachement to StrangeHouseSubmissions (At) Gmail.com. -In the body of the email, please put your contact information. -The subject of the email should read: submission title-your name-story title-word count. -NO TABS! Use your word processor’s paragraph settings to create paragraphs -No simultaneous submissions. That doesn’t mean submit it to 3 or 4 places and tap your foot while you impatiently wait for our response and then send us a really apologetic email when your story gets picked up by another publisher. it means NO simultaneous submissions. Sometimes we work slow, sometimes it takes 30-60 days AFTER the deadline for us to choose ALL of the stories for our anthologies. Just because you haven’t heard back from us yet, doesn’t mean we haven’t already selected your story for the book. Telling us it got picked up by someone else first does not a happy publisher make. Are we clear on that one? Good. Deadline is August 1st 2013. Payment is 20 dollars flat and one contributor copy of the anthology. Good luck, gang! Give us your STRANGEST!