Taking Submissions: Motherland
Deadline: August 28th, 2020 Payment: 6¢ a word Theme: Must be set in Motherland, a landyke community, details below. During a panel discussing a number of topics, including queering weird fiction, editor and publisher Steve Berman recalled an article in the New York Times: "Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place?" The notion of a dying lesbian community instantly seemed an ideal setting for weird fiction. And so Lethe Press is accepting submissions for Motherland. All stories must be set in Motherland, a landyke community founded on the Delmarva Peninsula in 1968 by Ida Marmer and Robinia Atwell. We are currently working on more details about Motherland that authors can include in their story. Please check back to this listing and page. Stories can be set during any time period, from the founding of Motherland to the current day. All stories must feature lesbian or bisexual protagonists. We recommend authors read the NY Times article and the book Landykes of the South before writing their submission. Deadline is August 28, 2020. Stories should be between 2,000 and 10,000 words. Payment is 6¢ a word, split between a sum upon acceptance (up to $100) with the remainder upon publication. Email stories as attachments (MS Doc or RTF files only) to [email protected] with the Subject Line: MOTHERLANDSUBMISSION. Include in the body of your email a brief synopsis of the story and a couple lines about yourself. Via: Lethe Press.
Taking Submissions: Denial Kills
Deadline: August 28th, 2020 Payment: Royalties Theme: Some real-world social issue where denial is causing great harm. Because we had such success and are so proud of our anthologies Strongly Worded Women and Shout, we want to do it again. Co-editors Zack Dye and Benjamin Gorman will be compiling another anthology for publication in the winter of 2020/spring of 2021. This time, the theme will be: Denial Kills. Your story or poem could be about some real-world social issue where denial is causing great harm. Denying global climate change? The dismissal of real news as "fake"? Ignoring the benefits of vaccines? Refusing to acknowledge the world is round and four and a half billion years old? Or it could be more personal. One character refusing to recognize something about her partner? About herself? These can serve as powerful allegories for those other issues without ever mentioning them. And of course your story doesn't need to be set in our world at all. Spaceships and black holes? Wizards and orcs? Fairies and vampires? Bring it! The stories do need to be fictional, though. We're not knocking journalism, long form essays, memoirs, or online rants, but there are other places for those. We want to create a space for fiction and poetry (ideally an equal amount so they can trade off and converse with one another). Short Stories: 2000 to 3500 words Poems: Up to 350 lines, max, for a single poem Multiple submissions accepted. Due date: Friday, August 28th Send your poem or short story to: [email protected] with the subject line: Denial Anthology Submission from _your name__ Reading fee: Zero dollars and zero cents Payment is in the form of royalties, depending on sales of the anthology. All authors included will divide the profits evenly with the editors and the publishing company. Via: Not A Pipe Publishing.
