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Dealine: April 1st, 2018 Payment: 6 cents per word Open for Submissions: Jan 1 - Apr 1 2018 Expected Publication: Late 2018 Story Length: 1500 - 5000 words Payment: .06 / word ( SFWA professional rates ) We're looking for works of short speculative fiction that consider the future of the internet, artificial intelligence, the mind, and robots. Give us your optimistic, fantastic, bittersweet stories of fantasy and science fiction. Please, no YA dystopian, robots will destroy the world, high fantasy tropes. Take a more original and nuanced view on the subject. No multiple submissions. No simultaneous submissions. No reprints. Submission Method: Send a brief cover letter in the body of an email with the story name, approximate word count, and author contact info. Attach your piece to the email in Rich Text ( .rtf ) format. Send all submissions to paperdogbooks gmail com . We try to respond to all submissions within 60 days. If you have not heard a response from us in that time please send a query. Via: Paper Dog Books.

Deadline: April 1st, 2018 Payment: $30 minimum, details below With volume 5 in edits, it’s time to start planning the sixth volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist bicycle science fiction, currently planned to come out in early 2020. The theme for this issue is: Dragons. Story length: 500 to 8,000 words (stories on the shorter end tend to appeal to me more). Deadline: April 1, 2018 (Changed from February 1st to avoid editorial burnout!) Format: Email a Word, Google, PDF, or txt/rtf document to elly at takingthelane dot com. I prefer to read submissions blindly, so please don’t include your name or contact details on your manuscript. Submissions of black and white illustrations or comics are also welcome. Pay: A percentage of net profits from the Kickstarter project used to fund the book is split evenly between contributors, not less than $30 per story. More about the themes: Stories can be in any science fiction or fantasy – ish genre: high fantasy, hard SF, space opera, fairy tales, solarpunk, spec fic, slipstream… anything but fanfic. Dragons can be literal or metaphorical, from a specific cultural tradition or entirely of your own invention. Surprise me! All stories must contain bicycles—the story doesn’t need to be about bicycling, but this element must be central enough that removing it would change the story significantly. Same goes with feminism. The story doesn’t have to be about feminism, but it does need to break from tired old gender stereotypes. I am especially looking for stories by writers who don’t often see their experiences reflected in mainstream science fiction and fantasy. P.S. Here’s a photo of an actual dragon bicycle for your enjoyment. Via: Taking The Lane.

Deadline: April 1st, 2018 Payment: $5.00 per 1000/w (to a max of $10). Reprints allowed. We are seeking ham sandwich stories, essays, poems, and other creative works for The Hamthology, which will be made available as an e-book and POD paperback. Your work has to include a ham sandwich in some significant way. (It doesn’t have to be the main part of the story, but it should affect the story.) We are interested in: comedies, horrors, and horror/comedies featuring a ham sandwich science fiction or fantasy stories featuring a ham sandwich serious literary fiction (with ham sandwich) explorations of the human experience through the prism of the ham sandwich romantic and/or erotic ham sandwich fiction creative fiction, possibly told in the form of advertisements or recipes for ham sandwiches actual recipes for ham sandwiches vegan screeds against the ham sandwich, or carnivore celebrations of the virtues of the ham sandwich or, generally, moral debates within the realm of ham sandwich ham sandwich poems ham sandwich personal essays ham sandwich philosophical or academic essays (e.g. the ham sandwich theorem) visual art with a ham sandwich To whet your appetite, here is some ham sandwich art by the Swedish artist Janne Karlsson: Submission Information: You retain original copyright. We just want (non-exclusive) rights to include the work in the anthology. Reprints are okay. Simultaneous submissions: okay. Multiple submissions: okay. Submission window: Feb 14 through April 1. Payment: rate of $5.00 per 1000/w (to a max of $10) upfront by Paypal OR up to twice that much comped from a paperback copy of the anthology (when it becomes available). All contributors will also receive the digital version. To be clear, a rate of $5.00 per 1000/w is a rate of .5c/word. Accepted lengths: anything. If you have an idea, but aren’t sure if we’d be interested, send...