Call for Submissions to Anthology: Clockwork, Curses, and Coal: Steampunk and Gaslamp Fairy Tales

CLOCKWORK, CURSES, AND COAL: Steampunk and Gaslamp Fairy Tales
Anthologist: Rhonda Parrish
Open for Submissions: February 1 - March 31, 2020
Expected Publication: early 2021
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
Payment: $0.01 per word + contributor copy

Steampunk’s core is a re-imagined 1800s using steam-powered technology so it is all about gears, goggles and gaslamps. And corsets and courtship and exploration (often in the form of colonialism). I want the bustles, parasols, high tea and airships, of course, but I also welcome stories which confront the darker, problematic side of Victorian sensibilities and attitudes. Plus fairy tales.

For example: What if a shoemaker was visited at night by tiny automatons? What if the little mermaid didn’t have to escape the ocean to be with her prince, but instead her social class? What if a woman’s upper class family was embarrassed by her scientific endeavors so they locked her in a tower… or tried to, anyway? Or a mechanized cat discovers a pair of fantastic boots? Or an explorer climbed a giant beanstalk and found a whole new, forgotten world?

Original fairy tales are welcome, as are retellings. If you choose to retell a familiar favourite, make sure your story offers something new and interesting. I’d rather see stories that reflect the long history of fairy tales as social commentary than those which simply tell the same story with a different setting.

Although steampunk tends to be focused in the American ‘wild west’ or Victorian England, this anthology needn’t be. I am open to stories set all over the world, and would love to see ‘Own Voices’ stories. As with the first book in the Punked Up Fairy Tales series, Grimm, Grit and Gasoline, I would love to see a diverse collection when it comes to which fairy tales are represented but also the races, genders and sexualities of the characters within them.

Simultaneous submissions = okay. Multiple submissions = no.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: HUMANS IN THE WILD: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country

Deadline: March 25th, 2020

Payment: $50

Theme: Poetry, Short Essays, Fiction, and Art by those affected by gun violence.

Swallow Publishing, in association with Mythic Picnic, is soliciting works for HUMANS IN THE WILD: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country.

The anthology features Kathy Fish, author of Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild, and we will choose approximately 30 additional works from other authors, artists, and people at large.

Submissions must be original, but may be previously published works, and should be no more than 2,500 words in length.

Selected authors will be paid $50.

The anthology will be sold in print and eBook. We will be donating a percentage of net proceeds from sales to charity, and encourage you to donate to a charity of your choice as well.

If you choose to donate your $50, please tell us about your chosen charity and why you choose to donate.

Though the editors of HUMANS IN THE WILD prefer donations to anti-gun violence charitable organizations, we understand there are many problems in the 21st century that may be nearer to your heart. And if you’ve lost faith in charities, you can tell us about that if you want to as well.

An index at the back of the anthology will include a bio on each contributor, including your explanation of where the $50 is going and why, but only if you wish to include that information.

Paste your submission into the body of the email, or attach as a PDF/Docx/JPG.

Include your contact information in the body of your email, your bio, and remember to tell us about your preferred charity, your reason for donating, or your reason for choosing not to donate.

Donation, and explaining your donation, is totally optional and is not a requirement for acceptance.

Please send submissions to:

jenATrrussonDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

The last day for submissions is March 25, 2020.

We hope to notify selected contributors via email by April 1, 2020.

Call for Essays from Women of Faith: HerStry

Women haven't always been welcomed as leaders in religion. In many religions and denominations women still aren't allowed in places of power. But that is changing and we're looking for the stories that prove it. We're looking for stories from women in every religion who are in positions of power and leadership, whether it is formally recognized or not.

 

The Rules:

 

All stories should be true and about you.

 

Stories should stay between 500-3,000 words.

 

Writers must submit an author photo and short third person bio.

 

Stories must be submitted in some type of word document. We will not consider PDFs.

 

Simultaneous submissions welcome. Please make sure to withdraw your essay should it get published elsewhere.

 

Stories due by March 19th

Women of color and LGBTQIA writers encouraged to submit.
PAYMENT:

 

All accepted stories will receive a $20 payment.

 

Submit here.

Call for Submissions: Transference

Transference Seeks Submissions of Poetry in Translation

Deadline: April 30, 2020

Transference is now accepting submissions of poems translated from—or inspired by—poetry originally written in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Latin and Classical Greek, with accompanying commentary. Submissions relating to the theme of vision/seeing are especially welcome. For this issue, we also welcome essays on the translation of poetry.

Read current and past issues online and submit here.

Transference is peer-edited in a blind submission process. Published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University.

Call for Submissions: The Red Wheelbarrow (formerly Red Savina Review)

The Red Wheelbarrow Review Seeks Submissions for the Summer 2020 Issue

The Red Wheelbarrow Review, formerly Red Savina Review (est. 2013), is open for submissions. The editors have a fresh focus in line with poet Rich Murphy’s concern that literature is in need of “prophetic voices now.” We seek poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction where word meets spirit in a commingling of the sacred and mundane. We have published writers such as Sharman Apt Russell, winner of the John Burroughs Medal; Rich Murphy, winner of the Gival Press Poetry Prize; Khanh Ha, winner of the Robert Watson Literary Prize; bestselling memoirist Gleah Powers; and many others.

Submission guidelines at our website.

Writing Competition: Storm Cellar's Force Majeure Flash Contest

FORCE MAJEURE Flash Contest

Deadline: April 30, 2020

Force Majeure: a great and unexpected power. We want the best small things: any form, any content, any fine & wonderful creation!

$500 in prizes (300/100/100). All entries considered for publication, all entrants receive prize issue.

Flash is: fewer than 1000 words, shorter than 5 pages, and may contain nonfiction, fiction, marks, or images in any combination. Send shorts, vignettes, hybrids, experiments, wild things!

Enter any number of times, one for $5 or three for $12; no-fee option available.

We encourage BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, border-straddling, fat, neurodivergent, disabled, poor, women & gender nonbinary, and other under-represented authors to enter.

Guidelines.

Writing Competition: Puerto del Sol Prose and Poetry Contests

Puerto del Sol Prose and Poetry Contests

Puerto Del Sol will be accepting entries to our annual poetry and prose contests from January 1 to April 1, 2020. Poetry Contest Judge: Rodney Gomez. Prose Contest Judge: Vi Khi Nao.

Winners receive $500 and publication.

$9 entry fee includes a one-year subscription. All entries considered for publication. Go to our website for complete guidelines.