Taking Submissions: Blood Bath Literary Zine Issue 2: DEMONS
Deadline: February 14th, 2019 Payment: £20 per 1,000 words for prose, £20 per 15 lines for poetry Following the success of issue one, Blood Bath opens submissions of short fiction, poetry and visual art for its second issue: DEMONS Agents of tangible evil, or paranoid ideas nestled inside our brains, DEMONS influence, divide and ruin us. Internal or external, real or imagined, DEMONS haunt the corporeal and fictional plane, and just like the saints in heaven, there’s a specific Demon for every purpose. We’re open to references to academic demonology theories or newly invented creations; try your best to surprise or intrigue us. The reading team are avid horror fans and dying to be exposed to a new kind of terror. Demons also represent an aversion to institution; they are heathens, unclean spirits. Perverted angels or cursed mortals, transformed during satanic ritual or born in hell, we are open to all interpretations. Demons from outside traditional Western Christianity depictions are enthusiastically welcomed. WE LOVE: The quickest and best way to find out what we love is to buy a copy of our first issue, BODIES. Print and EPUB copies are available in our shop. Supporting small publishers helps them to continue existing! As always, we are particularly interested in experimental and subversive forms, as well as contribution from women, people of colour, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and people living at the intersection of these identities. Last call for submissions produced an overwhelmingly white response; this issue we are looking for work specifically from people of colour, in particular trans and non-binary POC and women of colour. Horror has always been political, and BB is specifically searching for socially aware genre stories. Speaking of genre, we are open to any and all; science fiction, fantasy, erotica…but it also must contain...
