Submissions to TOWER VOL. 3: FAMILY will be open January 10-31 2024. You can learn about our theme by reading excerpts of two upcoming pieces in VOL. 2: HOLE.
We accept all genres and encourage submissions of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and erotica.
Topics and texts which inspired this theme include:
- Aristocracy and divine ordinance
- Incest as a trend in fanfiction
- Step-family content taking over porn
- Family abolition
- Workplace family culture and toxic positivity
- Fertility, Elon Musk, Silicon Valley, and “The Eugenicist Celebrity Couple Repopulating the World“
- The boundary pushing family dynamics of Sally Rooney’s “Mr. Salary“
- Colonialism and the cosy found family in Rite Gud’s “Space Racism, Oppressed Wizards, and Other Marginalized Fantasy Allegories“
- The intersection of motherhood and sex work in Tara O’Callaghan’s “Call me Mommy“
- The conditional queer family in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt
- The aberrant grandmother/mother/child triad of Sophie White’s Where I End
- The corrupted families of Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Stoker and the films of Park Chan-wook
- The troubled siblings of James Wan’s Malignant
- Corporate family and Succession
PAYMENT
Payment is €20 per contributor paid via PayPal or Revolut. If a contributor is unable to receive payment via these platforms, we offer to send a €20 gift card/e-voucher for a site of their choice en lieu.
Co-authored pieces count as one contributor.
Issues will be hosted at readtower.itch.io and available for pay-what-you-want or free.
REPRINTS
We are open to reprints and encourage submissions of self-published materials (EG. an illustration or comic posted to Twitter, a short story published on itch.io).
PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTORS
If you have been published in TOWER, we would ask you to wait out one submissions round before submitting again. (EG. if you were published in VOL. 1, please do not submit again until VOL. 3.)
SIMULTANEOUS / MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS
We’re totally fine with simultaneous submissions, just email us withdrawing your piece if it’s accepted elsewhere.
Please only submit once per category, making a different submission for each category. We encourage submissions of related works (EG. a story and accompanying illustration).
FORMATTING
We love pieces with unusual formats, specific layouts or mixed media, for example, “Lifegivers INC.” by Raluca Balasa, “Suspension” by Siena M. Moraff, “Oceanwrangler300 is typing…” by Annalisa Migliorati and spruciewyvern and “The Survivor House Promos” by Angélique Fawns from VOL. 1: END.
Just bear in mind TOWER is published as an A4 PDF.
More information and submission link here.
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