Taking Submissions: Pretend You Don’t See Her

Deadline: December 15th, 2024
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Horror stories written by women that focus on a women hiding her true form

CALLING ALL WOMEN HORROR AUTHORS: WE ARE FINALLY DOING ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN OUR #WomenOfHorror Anthology Series!

ANTHOLOGY TITLE:
PRETEND YOU DON’T SEE HER: Kandisha Press 2025 Women of Horror Anthology

Description:

The Invisible Woman: You barely notice her, sitting alone in the corner of the smoky bar. She walks through the streets at night, undetected until the moment she reveals her true self underneath that unremarkable form. Give us your shapeshifters, your werewolves, your witchy women, your wicked little creatures and demonic entities, all hiding in plain sight as harried housewives, college students, bartenders, business execs, Instagram influencers–ordinary, often forgotten ladies with dark secrets. Show yourselves!

FORMAT:
Open submissions and a few (limited) invites

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
– 3000-5000 words maximum.
– Please send in a word doc file in standard format
– Reprints accepted – Yes
– Simultaneous Submissions – No

WHAT WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR:
– No sexual assault, child abuse, animal abuse, or graphic sexual scenes. No hate toward any race, belief, sexual orientation, or gender. (You are absolutely free to discuss these themes but we do not want submissions that are pro-hate toward any group.)
– No toilet humor or bodily functions whether human or animal. Just don’t do it.
– We will not accept any stories created with the use of AI

HOW TO SUBMIT:

A panel of judges will be reading your stories through three rounds.

– Note* please add this email to your address book so our response to your sub does not go to your spam folder.

Send submissions to: kandisha14@gmail.com

DEADLINE: December 15th, 2024

PUBLICATION DATE: TBA (2025)

PAYMENT:

– Royalties will be paid through either Pubshare. The exact amount depends on the final number of authors in the book and the amount of monthly book sales. Each author will receive an eBook and have the ability to purchase author copies of the paperback. First payment will be made after two months, and after that every month.

– Note* If accepted, you must create a Pubshare account. It’s free and takes just a couple of minutes.

RIGHTS:

– Authors retain all rights to their stories. We only ask that you allow us to publish the story in any/all formats for a single edition of our anthology. As a courtesy, we ask that you don’t republish the story for at least six months after our publication, but if a great opportunity arises for you before then, hey, we won’t say no!

Questions? Email Kandisha14@gmail.com

Via: Kandisha Press.