Taking Submissions: Jungle Scandals
Submission Window: March 17th – April 16th, 2025
Payment: 1 cent per word
Theme: NSFW jungle adventure
Jungle Scandals is the second entry in The Scandal Anthology Series and the follow-up to the smash hit Sword & Scandal. But where Sword & Scandal featured NSFW heroic fantasy, Jungle Scandals is all about NSFW jungle adventure.
That’s right! This time around, we’re touring the jungles of the world, taking stops in Africa, Indonesia, and the Amazon, and we’ll be taking our inspiration from the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jospeh Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard.
But, while those writers all had more or less Victorian sensibilities, we’ll be filling the pages of our book with more gratuitous nudity, sex, and gore than you can possibly imagine! Some today find the old writers problematic. We think they’re not nearly problematic enough!
These stories will retain the sense of fun and wonder from the jungle adventures of old. But they will be absolutely insane with all the sex! If you read Sword & Scandal, then you know we don’t hold anything back.
We are looking for experimental stories that take big risks. Unlike other publishers who tend to play it safe with their selections, we are seeking the wild, strange, and outrageous. So, if you have an off-beat or off-the-wall jungle adventure rattling around in your head, but which you’ve been afraid to write because you don’t think you can place it, now is the time! We believe that literature should be dangerous, and we want to provide you with a safe space to write unsafe fiction.
Humor is also a big part of what we do. We are actively looking for stories that incorporate a similar sense of humor as ours: dry, sardonic, and satirical. But any type of humor is acceptable and encouraged, from farce to surreal humor, to character humor, to black comedy.
Think exploitation cinema! Think classical satire!
If you are still unsure what we’re looking for, you can read the last anthology in The Scandal Anthology Series, Sword & Scandal. Also, editor J. Manfred Weichsel has written a number of jungle adventure books you can take inspiration from, including Ebu Gogo, Jungle Jitters, and Savage Headhunters. Being familiar with the editor’s work will surely help you write something he will place! To learn more about J. Manfred Weichsel, visit his website.
Jungle Scandals is not an anthology for genre purists. It is for thrill-seeking readers who want something different and outrageous. The tales in this book are adventures to scandalize.
So, if the above describes what you want to do as a writer, then get writing and submit your short NSFW jungle adventure story to Jungle Scandals!
Technical notes:
Stories should be between 2,000 and 7,500 words, but the sweet spot is probably 5,000-6,000. While the upper limit is 7,500, we are unlikely to buy more than one story that length.
We will be buying 60,000 words of fiction
Payment is one cent a word upon acceptance
Submissions will open March 17 and close April 16. Please only submit during this window
Please use standard manuscript format. Submissions that do not at least make an attempt to do this will be deleted unread: https://www.shunn.net/format/classic/
Send files in .doc or .docx
Send submissions to: j (dot) manfred (dot) weichsel (at) gmail.com
(remove spaces and change (dot)s to “.” and (at)s to “@”)
No previously published stories, no simultaneous submissions
Look over J. Manfred Weichsel’s website:
https://j-manfred-weichsel.mailchimpsites.com/
If anything on it makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn’t submit to this anthology. On the flip side, if you want a better idea of what he is looking for, then read one of his books!
Via: J. Manfred Weichsel.
