Call for Submissions: A Field Guide to Surreal Botany
A Field Guide to Surreal Botany
Two Cranes Press is looking for submissions on the weirdest, most bizarre, most surreal floral concoctions that y'all can come up with. This will be in the style of a field guide, so you'll need to include Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Appearance, Growth cycle, Ecology and geographic location, &c. Be as weird as you want to be.
Payment is one cent per word, with a maximum of $5.00. Yes, it sucks, but we expect a lot of contributors (since we're recommending entries at 500 words, though we'll look at longer if they're exceptional). However, to offset the small monetary payment, you'll also get one contributor copy of the printed field guide, a certificate conveying lifetime membership in the Surreal Botanists Association, and a few other unique one-of-a-kind items not available anywhere else. We'll buy first worldwide print rights, and exclusivity for three months, after which, rights revert to the author.
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specficmarkets Call for Submissions: Lethe Press Anthology
Title: Tiresias Revisited: Magical Tales for Transfolk
Edited by: JoSelle Vanderhooft
Publisher: Lethe Press
Payment: 1 cent per word, minimum 25.00 per story
Deadline: October 1, 2006
Story Length: 2,000-8,000 words. Shorter or longer works may be considered on a case-by-case basis; please query first.
What We Want: Speculative fiction featuring transgender characters prominently, as protagonists or antagonists. These can be retellings of myth and legends that feature transgender characters, retellings which put a transgender spin on old stories, or original myths and legends featuring transgender characters. These can be from any culture or time period, from Ancient Greece to the Urban Legends of 21st Century America. We want a diverse collection of stories featuring male to female and female to male transgenders, and forms of gender identification that fall outside these labels.
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specficmarkets New Worlds Livejournal Community
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The science fiction and fantasy fan community New Worlds Alliance has created its own Livejournal Community, moderated by LJ user silverhakai. The first post is an announcement about the upcoming 4th New Worlds convention, entitled A Time Machine.
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Call for Submissions: Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.2
From Dean Francis Alfar's blog:
I am now accepting submissions of short fiction pieces for consideration for the anthology "Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.2". Speculative fiction is the literature of wonder that spans the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror and magic realism or falls into the cracks in-between. 1. Only works of speculative fiction will be considered for publication. As works of the imagination, the theme is open and free. 2. Stories must cater to an adult sensibility. 3. Stories must be written in English. 4. Stories must be authored by Filipinos or those of Philippine ancestry. 5. Preference will be given to original unpublished stories, but previously published stories will also be considered. In the case of previously published material, kindly include the title of the publishing entity and the publication date. 6. First time authors are welcome to submit. In the initial volume, there was a near 50-50 split of established and new authors. 7. Each author may submit only one story for consideration. 8. Each story’s word count must be no fewer than 3,000 words and no more than 5,000 words. 9. All submissions must be in Rich Text Format (.rtf – save the document as .rft on your word processor) and attached to an email to this address: dean@kestrelimc.com. Submissions received in any other format will be deleted, unread. 10. The subject of your email must read: 2nd Philippine Speculative Fiction Submission: (title) (word count); where (title) is replaced by the title of your short story, without the parentheses, and (word count) is the word count of your story, without the parentheses. For example - 2nd Philippine Speculative Fiction Submission: The Last Siren 4500. 11. All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes your name, brief bio, contact information, previous work (if any). 12. Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2006. After that date, final choices will be made and letters of acceptance or regret sent out via email. 13. Target publishing date is December 2006/January 2007. 14. Compensation for selected stories will be 2 contributor’s copies of the published anthology. Dean Francis Alfar, editorQuestions? Comments? Email Dean at dean@kestrelimc.com or leave a comment at this post in his blog.