Taking Submissions: Inverted Fairy Tales & Folklore (Title Pending)
Deadline: February 16th, 2020 Payment: 04 per word for original work, $0.01 per word for reprints, and a contributors copy Theme: Fairytale related-stories based on non-mainstream characters Note: Reprints welcome Inverted Fairy Tales & Folklore (Title Pending) We’ve all heard the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, the Princess and the Pea, and other faithful classics. We're sure that more than a few are familiar with the mythology of ancient Greece, Egypt, and others. Great! That’s NOT what we're looking for, with a few exceptions. We're looking for folklore, mythology, or fairy tales from other places, and fantasy stories that invoke these. Have a story about Baba Yaga? Toss it over here. One about Raw Head and Blood Bones? Sure, would love to see it! We want tales that have been lost to time, but we want you to twist it into being your own story. Give us something new and imaginative! What we DO NOT want: Explicit Gore – You’ll have a much better shot at being selected if we can make it through your story without feeling physically ill. Horror without explicit gore is more than fine. Explicit Sex/Erotica – Not that kind of anthology. Romance or alluded intimacy among characters is fine, but nothing that would require us to use a brown paper covering. The intended audience for this is 14+, so if you wouldn't feel comfortable with a 14-year-old reading the story, don't send it in. "Zipperbacks" (meaning characters that are animal-people, and the fact that they are part animal has no significance to the story) – Some examples of what you can do to avoid having "zipperbacks": if your story has wolves in it and they don’t engage in canine behavior (the occasional scratching, boundless energy, a fixation on scents, etc), then...
