Taking Submissions: She Walks in Shadows
Deadline: December 15th, 2014 Payment: 6 cents a word (Canadian $, eh) and a contributor’s copy in each format released (paperback, hardcover, MOBI, ePub). Note: Female Authors Only! She Walks in Shadows, the first all-woman Lovecraft anthology, will hold an open submissions period from November 15, 2014 to December 15, 2014. DO NOT SEND STUFF BEFORE THAT DATE. Keep the following in mind: Submit short stories inspired by the work of Lovecraft that focus on a woman or female deity. It may be a character from Lovecraft’s work or someone of your own creation. You are not restricted to the 1920s as a setting. Steampunk, dieselpunk, noir, and any other sub-genre you can imagine are fine with us. Give us your best and most polished work. And yes, you must be a woman to submit. Women only. To avoid the Asenath effect (that means every character in the anthology would be Asenath Waite), we asked the authors who are contributing stories to pick a different character from a Lovecraft story. While you are not bound to these restrictions, we suggest that if you use a character from Lovecraft’s fiction, you avoid the usual suspects (Asenath and Lavinia). Consider interesting and novel settings for your stories. Surely, strange Lovecraftian entities haunt contemporary Nunavut or the Inca fought strange webbed monstrosities centuries ago. Anne Boleyn, evil sorceress or woman fighting the good fight against the Mi-Go? We may never know. Or maybe we will. POCs are highly encouraged to send stories. Transgender writers: same thing. Stories may be sent in French, English, or Spanish. We can read all three languages. Story length is up to 4,000 words with a pay rate of 6 cents a word (Canadian $, eh). No reprints, please. Submit your final story as a Word or RTF attachment...
Taking Submissions: Fresh Meat
Deadline: December 15th,2014. Payment: Selected submissions will be contracted for publication with royalties paid on paperback and eBook purchases. Selected submission writers will receive free contributor copies of publication in print form. Note: That payment is a little vague so I'd make sure that you work that out before signing on the dotted line. We are currently accepting short story submissions for our FRESH MEAT Chapbook. This is for new writers to the horror scene. Submissions are for unpublished or self published writers only.(Unpublished means no pro sales of your work by another publisher. Exclusions for magazine publication.) Submission must not have been published in any form. Any subject matter within the horror genre is acceptable. Maximum word count is 20,000 words. Submissions will close on or near December 15th,2014. Selected submissions will be contracted for publication with royalties paid on paperback and eBook purchases. Selected submission writers will receive free contributor copies of publication in print form. Submit in Word document sent to Sinister Grin Press at [email protected] Via: Sinister Grin Press.
