Ongoing Submissions: Frontier Tales

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Payment: 1 cent per word
Theme: Stories of action and conflict. Open to some mixed genres, so it can include horror, etc, if it captures the theme and time period of a Western.

Short stories up to 10,000 words in length. Finished and edited.

Our top priority stories are what we like to call “strait shooters”. These are stories of action and conflict. We want gunslingers dueling in saloons, cowboys taking on bandits, Lawmen bringing order to the chaos of the West, bounty hunters going to the ends of the continent to catch their man, a Comanche warrior making his last stand on the open plains, Settlers defending their home from raiders, etc.

While these sorts of yarns are our preference we are still open to other varieties. Romantic western tales of love triumphing or dying on the frontier, ghost stories of the lost souls doomed to wander the among western winds, or weird westerns featuring deep ancient horrors revealing themselves to unsuspecting victims.

What are we not looking for

Smut/pornographic stories

Space/science fiction with western themes

Neo-westerns taking place in a contemporary setting

Stories set outside of America, in the future we may open up this to include other locales but for now it will be exclusively stories set in the US

Serialized stories, we may open this up in the future but for the time being we strictly want stand alone tales

Format

Please send your work in as doc or .docx. Also be sure it is up to the standard manuscript format .

Payment

Payment is upon acceptance at 1 cent per word, via pay pal. The author’s acceptance of payment constitutes agreeing to the terms set forth in the offer we send to authors. We will be paying for the right to publish your work exclusively for one year and to keep it in print. After first-year exclusivity expires, you are free to republish your story however you see fit. The author retains all rights to characters and intellectual property created therein.

Where to send?

Please send your file to [email protected] with “SUBMISSION-(Title)”. A short paragraph about the story and yourself is appreciated.

Via: Frontier Tales.

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