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Taking Submissions: Artifice & Craft

December 31, 2022 - January 1, 2023

Deadline: December 31st, 2022
Payment: 0.08 USD / word and Royalties
Theme: Mixing art with magic

Art is everywhere. Our drive and ability to create for the sake of creativity defines us as a species and enriches our cultures, our societies, our lives. The best of these works of art, from novels to paintings to statues to music, are imbued with a special kind of magic. But when that magic is literal—when Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray ages instead of the actual man, and Mozart’s Magic Flute plays its protective song—art takes on a whole new meaning. In ARTIFICE & CRAFT, we invite writers of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other speculative fiction to spin their own tales of works of art that have been enchanted, hexed, charmed, or cursed.

Edited by Edmund R. Schubert & David B. Coe, ARTIFICE & CRAFT will contain approximately fourteen stories with an average length of 6,000 words each. Anchor authors include:

  • Alex Bledsoe,
  • Julie E. Czerneda,
  • Alethea Kontis,
  • James Maxey,
  • C.E. Murphy,
  • Adam Stemple, and
  • Catherynne M. Valente

ARTIFICE & CRAFT: Submission Guidelines

Zombies Need Brains LLC will accept submissions to its anthology, ARTIFICE & CRAFT, from the moment the Kickstarter funds until December 31st, 2022. This is a one-time open call; there will be no follow-up open calls. Follow us on Twitter (@ZNBLLC) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/zombiesneedbrainsllc) to keep track of the Kickstarter and the open call. Stories must be submitted in electronic format through the submissions management system Moksha here: http://zombiesneedbrains.moksha.io.

  • Word count: up to 7500 words. No exceptions.
  • Pay rate: 0.08 USD / word (SFWA professional rate), plus royalties for anthologies (see below)
  • Simultaneous submissions: No.
  • Multiple submissions: Up to three per open call period; please submit each separately. You do not need to wait for one to be rejected before submitting another. “Bonus” submissions will be deleted unread.
  • Reprints: No.
  • If a story has been previously rejected by the online magazine ZNB Presents, it is permitted to submit that story to a ZNB Anthology call, like ARTIFICE & CRAFT (if the story is on theme).
  • If a story has been previously rejected for one (or several) ZNB Anthologies, it is permitted to submit that story to ARTIFICE & CRAFT (if the story is on theme).

 

FORMATTING AND CONTENT GUIDELINES:

Manuscripts should be in Modern Shunn format [https://www.shunn.net/format/story/], meaning: double-spaced, 12pt font, standard margins on top, bottom, and sides, and pages numbered. Please use Times New Roman font. The first page should include the Title of the story, Author’s name, email, word count, and byline, if different from the author’s name. Italics and bold should be in italics and bold.

 

ARTIFICE & CRAFT is to feature science fiction, fantasy, or urban fantasy stories where the story revolves around some type of artistic object that has been enchanted, cursed, hexed, or imbued with magical properties. We would like a wide variety of genre settings for this anthology. In other words, we don’t want the entire anthology to be secondary world fantasy settings. As always, we are looking for a range of tones, from humorous all the way up to dark.

 

TIMELINE:

Decisions on stories will be made by the end of February 2023. You will receive a receipt email from Moksha and will be able to keep track of your submission through Moksha. Rejections and acceptances will be sent through Moksha no later than the end of March 2023. If you have not received notification of submission, please query after one week; if you have not received a rejection or acceptance notification, please query after March 2023. Send queries to [email protected].

 

WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU’RE ACCEPTED:

If your story is selected, you should expect a revision letter, followed by a copy edit phase. A formal acceptance and contract will follow after completion of copy edits. Afterwards, there will be a page proof phrase. Advances would be immediately earned out upon publication of the anthology. Royalties on additional sales of the anthology (not including Kickstarter editions) will be 25% of ebook cover price and 10% of trade paperback cover price, both split evenly (not by word count) among the authors in and editors of the anthology.

A sample contract can be found at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/71710311

Stories will be published in the GAME ON! anthology by August 2023. Zombies Need Brains LLC is seeking exclusive world anthology rights (including electronic rights) in all languages for the duration of one year after publication of the anthology. Your story cannot appear elsewhere during that first year.

Questions regarding these submission guidelines should be sent to [email protected]. Thank you.

Via: Zombies And Brains Moksha.

Details

Start:
December 31, 2022
End:
January 1, 2023