Taking Submissions: Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea (Early Listing)
Taking Submissions: Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea (Early Listing)
Submission Window: June 1st to June 30th, 2022 Payment: A contributor’s copy and Stories: $0.08 a word, Poems: $50 a poem, Drabbles: $50 a drabble Theme: horror or dark fantasy stories, poems, and drabbles about malevolent mermaids, sinister sirens, scary selkies, spirits, and other deadly and dangerous women of the sea. Submissions Open: June 1 st to June 30th Title: Dangerous Waters: Deadly…
Taking Submissions: The Other Stories #84: Faeries
Taking Submissions: The Other Stories #84: Faeries
Deadline: May 15th, 2022 Payment: 15GBP Theme: If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we’ll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week. (Vol 84.)…
Psst, authors! So you’ve written a cool contemporary lesfic romance? Or mabye you’ve got a queer contemporary urban fantasy novel tucked in the back of your drawer?
Ylva has four open slots left for books in the above genres for its 2023 publication schedule.
To offer your manuscript for consideration, jump over to our submission guidelines to make sure your story fits the bill. Deadline is June 30, 2022.
Some recent interest reminded me that it’s been almost a decade since the original “Rotten Zucchinis zine” about harm in qp / non-normative relationships began taking shape. So it’s time to revisit this in a call for new submissions:
Inviting submissions:
for a zine about experiences with non-normative** personal / intimate relationships that are harmfulordestructive,orinclude harm (e.g., violence, coercion, abuse, etc., broadly defined, including things like destructive codependence) or otherwise traumaticexperiences
personal stories, reflections, poetry, art, etc.
** By “non-normative” I’m referring to things like queerplatonic relationships or other non-romantic personal or intimate relationships that are somehow “outside the box” and not adequately or properly described by the term “friendship”– especially relationships for which there are no good specific labels. (The people involved do not have to be arospec and/or ace even though almost everyone who contributed to the first 2 issues was.)
Taking Submissions: Last Girls Club Fall Issue 2022 (Early)
Taking Submissions: Last Girls Club Fall Issue 2022 (Early)
Submission Window: July 1st – August 1st, 2022 Payment: Short Story-2,500 words or less. $0.01 USD per word/$25 USD max, Poems-less than 200 words $10, Flash Fiction-less than a 1,000 words $0.01 USD per word/$10 USD max Theme: Dark Shadows: The Gay 90s; closeted, cast out, or converted. The Last Girls Club Magazine is a quarterly feminist horror magazine that publishes international short…
Taking Submissions: Electric Spec August Issue 2022
Taking Submissions: Electric Spec August Issue 2022
Deadline: July 15th, 2022 Payment: $20 per story Theme: Electric Spec prefers science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but we’re willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. submissions at electricspec (dot) comPlease don’t query us about your story submission. We don’t have the manpower to answer such queries. An editor will email you back as soon as possible with the…
As you may know, S’lim is a visually driven zine that focuses on one place at a time, merging the urban, contemporary and historical experiences of visiting, living, staying and theorizing. The core idea is to utilize and publish mostly already existing imagery (social, archival, residual…) to re-frame and showcase potential alternate contemporaneities and observations through a momentary, curatorial lens.
We are now calling for guest curators / editors for an upcoming issue #6 on Helsinki.
Send us a small blurb (max 150 words) describing an editorial idea, highlighting a specific viewpoint on “Helsinki”. We are particularly interested in margins, side-eyes and off-conditions.
We will choose the most relevant proposal by mid-November and work together with the guest editor to produce the issue by early 2018, both digitally and in print. The chosen editor is tasked with seeking and selecting suitable contributions and providing a small editorial text for the issue (max 500 words). Past issues have held around 5-7 contributions each (you can view examples at www.selim.fi/slim). In exchange, we can offer a small honorarium.
We’re editing an anthology of sensual flash fiction and prose poetry that offers erotica connoisseurs something new on every page. Send us stories that engage readers’ minds, stimulate the senses, and make pulses race–that swiftly beguile us and offer rapid satisfaction, but will also leave us thinking about them days, or years, afterward.
Length: ~50-2000 words (Technically flash fiction is 1,000 words and under, but we welcome pieces fitting the spirit as much as the substance. If you need a few more words to tell the complete story, no worries.)
Genre, pairing: Any genre or setting–contemporary, historical, other worlds, time travel… And no limits on the gender or number of participants. Whether your characters find satisfaction through BDSM, fetish, or vanilla encounters, in long-term romances or one-night stands, it’s all good.
Payment: $30 per story and a free ebook copy of the anthology.
For those who don’t know: I was one of the co-runners of the original two anthologies, under the penname Alex Freeman, and I’m still involved now.
So, basically, this is me enthusiastically encouraging all fanfic writers who are interested to give this a go. You don’t even need any significant experience with writing original fiction: last antho had a couple of excellent pieces which were essentially fanfic with the serial numbers filed off.
So why send something in? Well, to make me happy, for one. A lot of the submissions we got so far are A) painfully cishet, and B) written in a certain kind of language that I am… let’s say not fond of. Meanwhile in my experience, people who write from a fanfic background are often good both at queer inclusivity and creative language use, and I’m yearningfor some of that stuff here. Honestly.
But obviously you should participate for reasons other than comforting me in my time of need. There’s the money - easily earned for only 1-2K words. There’s the experience of it, being edited by a pro and going through the publishing process. There’s the joy at seeing one of your own stories in a published book you can put on your shelf. And there’s the actual free book full of well-written porn you’ll get, so that’s cool too.
I know the jump to published writing can seem big, but as a matter of fact it’s just a little hop. Both Sage and I are fanfic writers too, we know the world and the lingo and we can help out if you’re feeling a little lost in the new world of original fiction. We steer clear of “writing to a market” and really take inclusivity and diversity seriously.
So whether you’ve been considering pro-writing but you didn’t know how to start, or if you just never thought of it but it sounds cool (or if you’re already a published writer and want to contribute your bit) hit us up, we’ll welcome you with open arms.
Let’s stretch our erotic vocabulary with the sexiest words in print!
For our fourth anthology, The New Smut Project seeks diverse, feminist, body-positive erotica exploring the seductive potential of:
Literature—
Reading a sexy story to yourself, or to a lover. Writing a sexy story for yourself, or for a lover, or for a friend. Reading a story that wasn’t intended to be sexy but, well, it turns out you’ve got a new kink.
The narratives we construct about our sex and love lives, or have constructed for us, or deconstruct. The patterns we and our cultures make and break.
Sexy thoughts we have about other people’s stories and characters—yes, send us your fanfiction! For legal reasons, please stick to works in the public domain.
Literary structures: write an epistolary story collecting the steamy letters a 19th century abolitionist sent to his boyfriend. Take it into the 21st century with sexts. Or the 23rd century with a hologram.
Write a story entirely in dialogue. Write a sex scene that also works as slam poetry. Write a story that travels back in time with each scene—paraphrasing Sam Goldwyn (well,allegedly), open with an orgasm and then work us up to a climax.
Language—
Make love to and with your favorite words. Or take a new look at your less favorite. Which is sexier—dirty talk or sonnets? Quote Shakespeare in sexts. Make pillow talk about all the dirty words in Shakespeare. Convince us moist is actually a turn-on. Is it a dick or a cock? Is her sex better than her pussy or vice versa? And iscunt an insult or a term of worship?
Write with and about the words that send a shiver down the spine, that make a heart skip beats or knees go weak.
Write about the feeling of finally finding the right word to describe your sexuality.
What about wordplay? What’s the sexiest literary device—parallelism? Zeugma? Alliteration? Even a good pun gets us laughing, and laughter can be sexy. Or dare we say, puns can make us moan as well as groan.
What about wordlessness—pleasure that sends lovers beyond words? The use of nonverbal communication?
And what about the unspeakable? Reveal what someone has never been able to talk about. What’s more naked than the truth?–Maybe the right lie?
Keep in mind that, alongside this anthology’s focus on words, the most erotic stories are sensual—texture, taste, and scent play a role in addition to sights and sounds. We don’t have as many words for smell as we do for vision, but what can we do with the words we have? Perhaps you can coin new words. Plus there’s synesthesia, and a sixth sense, or seventh sense… For many, isn’t reading itself a form of synesthesia, transforming sight into sound? And how do telepaths talk dirty?
Length and Payment:
$30 for flash fiction up to 1,000 words
$100 for short stories from 2,500—6,000 words
(Wordcount requirements aren’t firm if you’re within rounding distance. Or query first.)
Contributors will also receive a free ebook copy of the anthology and a discount on paperback copies.
Submission deadline: September 1, 2021. Final decisions will be made by November 2021.
Genre, pairing:
Just about any, and any. Contemporary, historical, speculative fiction, romance, mystery, literary character study, prose poem—really, the only genre we don’t accept is erotic horror because it’s led to too many submissions that don’t fit the rest of our guidelines or our mission. Paranormal takes on creatures like ghosts and vampires, as well as stories with a bittersweet tinge (we do want the “sweet” along with the bitter—we love stories that show a sense of compassion) will be considered!
No limits on the gender or number of participants, so long as they are 18+ and express their affirmative consent.
Stories about fandom romance: Characters can be members of fandom, discovering fandom, or meeting through fandom. Think fanfic authors, cosplayers, artists, bloggers, etc.! Do your characters meet online? At a con? Randomly somehow at the grocery store? The options are endless, and we want to read them all!
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Stories featuring a relationship involving at least one character who is genderfluid, and at least one character who is a paranormal/magical/mythical creature such as: shapeshifters, were-creatures, fae, banshees, incubi/succubi, ghosts, etc. We are looking for paranormal genderfluid romance. The genderfluid character does NOT have to also be the magical/mythical character, but certainly CAN be! It’s up to you! We are particularly interested in #ownvoices stories for this category.
Submissionsmustmeet the above criteria AND fall into one of the above categories, but if your story falls into both categories that is really awesome, please note that in the summary field of your submission!
The following elements are always welcome:
Erotica
Representation of characters from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds
Characters with disabilities
Trans characters
Non-binary/genderfluid/gender nonconforming characters (for both categories!)
Any genre, as long as the story is primarily a romance
EDIT: This deadline has been extended through January 30, 2020!
We will do our best to respond to all submissions. Please do not send inquiries about your submission. If your story is accepted, we will contact you via email.
boost house is pleased to announce MACRO: an anthology of image macros to be released in full color at the end of this year.
we believe that the image macro can redefine poetry outside of canons and boundaries.
MACRO will serve as both a historical document, collecting the medium’s earliest classics, and a picture of where the form is heading.
people currently or formerly associated with Internet Poetry, alt lit, net art, weird facebook and related subgroups, tumblr-based art and poetry, New Hive and all other digital culture communities are encouraged to look through their digital archives and submit their work.
please submit your word-image works in a digital file to [email protected] by june 30, 2015. There is no limit on what you can submit, however we suggest 5-20 pieces.
we are so excited about this project and hope you all are too <3 THANK YOU to everyone in advance who submits :)
It has been a strange and difficult time. Many people I know processed this through art, storytelling, music, poetry, drama, comedy, and so many other forms of expression. And many people, like myself, fell into and out of the ability to do this creative work, into and out of dry spells, while trying to keep our heads above water and to live in a shut down world.
About a year ago, in the midst of chaos and as a way of responding to it, I began an experimental audio series called IN A WALLED CITY. After a hiatus, work on this project has resumed. Over the course of this past year and especially during the time of quarantine I was able to spend more time listening and watching. While this has been a traumatic period in many ways, it has also been a time of enormous artistic output for many people – many of whom are professionals, many of whom turned to creative work for the first time, and many in between.
I’m working with a group called Thicket to launch an artistic showcase called KALEIDOSCOPIC in which we aim to feature artwork of all kinds made during this time of immense change. We are looking for everything from songs to podcasts to films to monologues to essays to anything else you’ve made that you consider your artistic expression.
This showcase will take place online on July 17th. We are seeking submissions in the form of 2-5 minute videos that show your art in whatever form you feel is most appropriate.
This is a paid event. We will be selling tickets for $25 and we will split the proceeds: one third will be divided among all contributing artists, one third will be divided among the production staff, and one third will cover expenses.
If you’d like to submit to the showcase please visit https://www.thicket.agency/ where you can find the FAQ as well as more information about Thicket and upcoming workshops.
If you would like to get involved with production of this or future events, or if you’d like some guidance on your submission, or have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].
If you aren’t planning to submit, please consider purchasing a ticket and spreading the word. I will debut new work from IN A WALLED CITY at this event and several close friends and collaborators will be showcasing great work as well!
In other news, I am working on an instrumental album called NINE COURTLY DANCES as well as rehearsing live sets with both Wing & Scale and RAQIA. Touring with Welcome to Night Vale will resume in the spring of 2022.
I am looking forward to seeing you, on the road or online!
