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Deadline: October 1st, 2024 Payment: $50 and royalties Theme: Original, previously unpublished, science fiction stories that are, first and foremost, drag Science Fiction Is a Drag! is a drag anthology. We’re looking for original, previously unpublished, science fiction stories that are, first and foremost, drag.  This is an anthology where those of us in the drag community can gather and tell the stories that we’d never be able to publish anywhere else.  Stories up to 10,000 words will be considered. Publication date is sometime in 2025. Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024 What we don’t want: • Stories by straight people who think drag performers are cute, funny, scary, etc. and have no real connection to the drag community or drag rhetoric. (We, of course, are cute, funny, scary, etc., but there’s an ineffable deeper element that those of us who are drag get and others don’t.) • Stories by LGBT+ people who think drag performers are cute, funny, scary, etc. and have no real connection to the drag community or drag rhetoric. (Or, if you think of people who do drag as “them” and not “us,” I’d prefer if you let “us” have a room of our own.) • Stories by members of the drag community that were written for the straights and have nothing drag about them at all.  You may certainly send us your drag stories that were written for the straights or your stories that are written for us in the drag community.  But they must be drag stories not just by someone who does drag. • Look, I don’t have the money to take on Disney, Paramount, Warner, the Frank Herbert estate. If it’s set in someone else’s intellectual property, I can’t use it.  The day I have the money to get the proper permissions to do Star Wars Episode 69:...

Deadline: October 1st, 2024 Payment: $750 and 5 contributors copies Theme: Novellas to be released as a collection about lesbian-themed folk magic stories A collection of lesbian-themed folk magic and witchcraft tentatively titled Witchcraft in Your Lips. For this book we're seeking 3-4 novellas. Submissions should be between 20-30 thousand words in length. We are not interested in erotica or young adult stories for this book. Same-sex relationships should be presented as positive, as usage of folk magic. By this, we mean no self-loathing lesbians or witches (they can face external prejudices, of course). Submissions should be sent to [email protected] with the subject line WIYL Submission. Because we are a small press, our response time is quite slow; please do not query us about your submission until October, when we  will close for submission. Payment for each story will be 750 dollars and five copies of the print edition. Via: Lethe Press.

Deadline: October 1st, 2024 Payment: Contributor's Copy Theme: The author must do a tarot reading and the results of that must affect the writing, in any genre, in some way The Light from Albemuth is a print and electronic anthology that utilizes a tool of divination in a unique way: before sitting down to write a submission, be it story, poem or essay, the author is to do a tarot reading, with the intention that it affects the writing in some way, and then write. Any genre is acceptable, but nothing NC-17, please. Tarot and/or divination do not need to factor into the work itself when it comes to content. Accompanying the piece should be a short ‘about the author’ blurb, and an explanation of the reading that was done before the author wrote the piece – and how they interpret it. This will be included in the anthology as well, so that as a whole, the book will be two things. First, a collection of short stories, poetry and essays. Second, a peek into how and whether Tarot can guide creativity. Length: Prose of 1,000 – 7,000 words Poetry not more than 25 lines Compensation: One contributor’s copy. Copyright will be retained by author of work, and once a year from publication has passed, they can have it reprinted anywhere they desire. Publisher only gets first print and first digital publication rights in English, and can only include it in this specific anthology. Send submissions in .docx format to: [email protected] Submissions are open now (July 7, 2024) and will close October 1, 2024, with an expected live date of December 31, 2024. Via: The Light from Albemuth Substack.