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Deadline: June 30th 2014 Payment: $5 and a Digital copy Submissions Dates: 3/1/14 - 6/30/14   Publication Date: Late 2014 (November-December)   Rejected Overview     We, at Harren Press, are hosting a REJECTED anthology! Any short story that you have written, submitted, and been rejected with; we are interested in seeing it and the rejection letter. We are accepting any genre, so feel free to submit anything you have.     What we ARE looking for: Stories that have been polished by the writer, but for one reason or another were not accepted by the intended publisher.     What we are NOT looking for: Stories that have obvious reasons for rejection. We do not want stories that are filled with several grammatical and spelling errors. We do not want stories that have no ending, have no plot, and have no character building. Your story should be a complete short story.     Within this anthology, there will be a forward that discusses the various reasons that stories, even perfectly written stories, can sometimes hit the rejection pile at different presses, small and large. The foward will be written by Brian Woods. Stories will be selected by Brian Woods, Jesse Duckworth, and the Harren Press staff.   Rights   We purchase First Electronic, First Print, and Anthology Rights. Please remember that you can only sell your various “First” rights once. You will only be able to market your accepted story as a reprint, once we have published it, which may limit where you can submit it to in the future, and how much you may be paid for it. Only you can make this business decision for yourself.   Submission Requirements 1. We are looking for short stories between 2,500-5,500 words.   2. We pay $5 for your story and a...

Deadline: $0.01 a word and an ebook Payment: June 30th, 2014 We want unique, strange, and compelling horror fiction. The writing style should be unusual but mesmerizing. The characters should be believable. Awe us, make us cry, make us laugh, make us sigh. The ideal story should stay with us for a long time after reading. Expectations: We will not accept reprints, multiple submissions, or simultaneous submissions. To clarify, this means that we will not accept a story that has already been published, you can only submit one story, and you cannot have the story you submit to us also submitted to other publications. Response time: We will back to you as soon as possible, but many things factor into our response time. The goal is to have it back to you within four to six weeks from submission date. Length: The best stories are those written in the right amount of words. There is no word minimum, but the ideal maximum is 10,000 words. The preferred range is 2,500–7,500. Compensation: You will be paid $0.01 a word and an ebook for original work and first-printing, world exclusive rights (text and audio) for 12 (twelve) months after the anthology is released. About Us: Volume 1 released Halloween, 2013. It featured thirteen stories that crossed the genres of surreal horror, dark fantasy, and heart pounding dread. The debut horror anthology lived up to the guarantee to twist the reader's perception, and we can't wait to do that again. From the common, comfortable tropes, to the more taboo, the tales should have a literary aspect designed to expand the readers understanding of what true horror can be. If you would like to get an idea of what we are looking for, please check out the wonderful thirteen stories that made it through...

Deadline: June 30th, 2014 Payment: Even split of net profits between Editor, Authors, and Illustrator. Paid quarterly. This will be a very small project. Many of the stories will be solicited from friends of mine, both IRL and online. That doesn't mean they aren't accomplished authors. So, there aren't many open spots. This idea was born as a reaction to an editor's complaint about the volume of cannibal submissions he received through Apex's slush pile. With large markets, themes and tropes tend to come in waves. Apparently that wave includes cannibals right now. So some of his friends, and mine, started joking about starting a cannibal-themed anthology. Well, here we are. What are we looking for? Cannibals, obviously. But we aren't looking for the same tired stories that feature inbred hillbillies capturing college spring-breakers and serving them up for lunch. You see it in film even more than fiction; The Hills Have Eyes, Dying Breed, Wrong Turn etc... Give us something fresh. Sexy cannibals. Philosophic cannibals. Lawyer cannibals. Quiltbag cannibals. Cannibal angels. Cannibal steampunk. Alt. History with cannibals. A cannibal family drama. What we are not looking for. Rapey cannibals. Hillbilly cannibals. Racist cannibals. Tribal cannibals. There's always exceptions to the rules, but if you use any of these things it better be a damned good story. Poetry - Query, you never know. Word Limit: 8,000 - Query for longer. Format: Standard Manuscript Format http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html Response Time: 2 weeks or less, depending on volume. Pay: Even split of net profits between Editor, Authors, and Illustrator. Paid quarterly. Fewer authors = more money. So I'll be favoring longer stories, though won't rule out shorter ones depending on the quality and other factors. Publisher: Self published in Kindle Format and possibly Createspace depending on interest. Please send submissions to [email protected] using "Submission" in...

Deadline: June 30th 2014 Payment: £10 on publication, copy of the paperback and profit share for two years. Darlings! The awesome team of Jen & Jan are doing a Fox Spirit anthology and we are open for submissions! Official blurb type thing - Wicked Women  Edited by Jan Edwards and Jenny Barber Regular readers of Fox Spirit books know that women are pretty bad-ass – be they evil queens, goddesses, super-villains or anti-heroes, warriors, monsters, bad girls, rebels, mavericks or quietly defiant – so with that in mind, we’re looking for stories of women who gleefully write their own rules, women who’ll bend or break the social norms, skate along the edge of the law and generally aim to misbehave. Genres: any variation of fantasy, SF, horror and/or crime. Length: 4000 – 8000 words Format: doc/docx/rtf files – see the Fox Spirit house style guide for formatting requirements Email as an attachment to: [email protected] Please put ‘Submission: Wicked Women/story title’ in the email subject line Deadline: 30th June 2014 Payment: £10 on publication, copy of the paperback and profit share for two years. Odd notes - Yes, we’re accepting stories from men too! Just make sure your lead is a woman. A leading woman can be cisgender or transgender or any person who chooses to self identify or present as a woman in the space of the story. Via: Jenny Barber

Deadline: June 30th, 2014 Payment: An equal percentage royalty split of 50% of sales p.o.d. and e-book. Burnt Offerings Books is planning on publishing a series of anthologies. The theme of the next anthology will be fixed-timeline time-travel. Why fixed-timeline time-travel? Because I love books and films about time travel. And I hate books and films about time travel. I love the idea of time travel but I hate paradoxes. One of the only films I know of that successfully used the concept of fixed-timeline time-travel is 12 Monkeys. With almost every other film that uses time travel as a plot device, the plot holes and paradoxes ruin them for me. The most recent time-travel film I've watched was Looper. If the premise they were using was fixed-timeline time travel, then much of the film would be completely untenable. The plot holes could have been fixed if they had taken the time to work on the screenplay, but they weren't because they didn't. It's things like that which set me to thinking. What is "fixed-timeline time travel"? I think that this infographic explains it fairly well.   What kind of stories are we looking for? A good story trumps genre classification but we are generally looking for stories about time travel. We are going to be very discriminative in our selection process. We are looking for literature.   Not just stories. If you’re going to explore a traditional genre, we expect you to do something new with it. If you send us another textbook genre story, you will receive a polite letter of refusal and suggestions for other markets that may be better suited for your work. What we’re looking for is writing that is evocative and actually effects readers emotionally. If you’re going to go for scary, we want terrifying writing...