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Tesseracts 14: Canadian Sci-fi/Fantasy Anthology Open for Submissions

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Canadian authors of science fiction and fantasy, get your stories ready.  Tesseracts 14, is open for business.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tesseracts Fourteen:
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS (Sept. 1, 2009 – Nov. 30, 2009)
 



Submissions are now open (from September 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009) for volume 14 of the Tesseracts anthology. If you are a Canadian author and write speculative fiction, we want to see your stories, poetry, radio plays, flash fiction etc. [SEE GUIDELINES BELOW]

The editors for this antholgy are:

John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory.    

 

GUIDELINES 

   

  • This anthology is open to Canadians, landed immigrants, long-time residents, and expatriates.



  • Open to submissions in either English or French. (Francophone stories must be translated into English for publication if accepted.) Canadian authors who write in languages other than French or English are welcome to submit an English translation of their work, provided it otherwise falls within the parameters of this anthology. Please supply details of original publication for any submission that originally appeared in a language other than English.



  • Translation into English is the sole responsibility of the authors.



  • Genres: all the genres of imaginative literature, including but not limited to magic realism, science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy, slipstream, supernatural horror, weird tales, alternate history, space opera, planetary adventure, surrealism, superheroes, mythic fantasy, etc.



  • The Tesseracts anthology series is open to both short fiction and poetry.



  • Payment is $20 for poetry, $50 for stories under 1,500 words, rising to a maximum of $100 for stories of over 5,000 words (longer stories are paid a slightly higher fee, but in order to exceed the word length limit of 7,500 words, the editors must judge a story to be of surpassing excellence.)



  • Deadline: 30 November 2009.



  • Do not query before submitting.



  • Email submissions: tess14@hadespublications.com



  • Emails MUST contain the word “submission” in the subject line, or they will be deleted automatically by the server. Please also include the story title in the subject line.



  • Submissions MUST come as an attachment: RTF is the only acceptable format.



  • Emails MUST contain a cover letter in the body of the email; for security reasons, email attachments with no cover letter will be deleted unread and unanswered.



  • Cover letter: include your name, the title of your story, your full contact information (address, phone, email), and a brief bio. Do not describe or summarize the story.



  • If your address is not within Canada, please indicate in the cover letter your status vis-à-vis Canada.



  • Reprints (stories having previously appeared in English in ANY format, print or electronic, including but not limited to any form of web publication) can be considered but will be a hard sell; reprints must come from a source not easily available in Canada. If your submission is a reprint, please supply full publication history of the story. If your story appeared previously, including but not limited to anywhere on the web, and you do not disclose this information to the editor upon submission, you will be disqualified from consideration.



  • Submission format: no strange formatting, colour fonts, changing fonts, borders, backgrounds, etc. Leave italics in italics, NOT underlined. Put your full contact information on the first page (name, address, email address, phone). No headers, no footers, no page numbering. DO NOT leave a blank line between paragraphs. Indent paragraphs. ALWAYS put a # to indicate scene breaks (a blank line is NOT enough).



  • ALWAYS include your full contact information (name/address/email/phone number) on the first page of the attached submission.



  • Rights: for original fiction, first World English publication, with a two-month exclusive from publication date; for all, non-exclusive anthology rights; all other rights remain with the author. (DO NOT INDICATE WHICH RIGHTS YOU ARE OFFERING; SUBMISSIONS MARKED WITH RESTRICTIVE RIGHTS WILL BE DELETED WITH NO REPLY.)



  • Spelling: please use Canadian spelling, as per the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.



  • Response time: initial responses (no / rewrite request / hold for further consideration) will be made within thirty days after the close of submissions. Final responses no later than 31 December 2009.



  • Submit up to three stories at the same time, butUNDER SEPARATE COVER (only one submission per email).



  • Simsubs are not encouraged but are acceptable. Should you receive a “rewrite request” or “hold for further consideration” response, please indicate immediately whether your story is under consideration anywhere else.



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    Stories of Intergalactic and Fantastical Hoochies wanted for Anthology

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    Looks like the cast of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
    Looks like the cast of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

    Yep, you heard it right.  An anthology about the “World’s Oldest Profession” is looking for submissions.  Stories need to have a genre twist to them—science fiction, fantasy, something that makes them a bit different.  The anthology is “Ladies of Trade Town” and the Press is a good one.  

     

    For more info, go HERE   According to the Website:

    The stories selected for this anthology will build on that varied background to tell well-crafted tales of the women and men – and other sentient beings – who “ply the trade” in a variety of times and settings. I’m looking for original science fiction, fantasy, and related genre short stories that entertain and play to the imagination of the reader. Show me something I haven’t seen, read, or written. (For examples of that last, see “Lady Blaze” in Roby James’ Warrior Wisewoman 2  and the title cut of the filk CD that gives this volume its name.) Humor, characters of all orientations and gender-identities, and new writers all welcome.

    Despite the theme, I am *not* looking for porn, erotica, or gore-soaked horror. Absolutely no child abuse, incest, or non-consensual situations. Also not looking for poetry, fanfic or proselytizing either for or against the theme.Vekma

    STORY LENGTH:: between 3,000 – 10,000 words. Mostly looking for stories in the 5,000 – 6,000 word range, but I’d like to have a few stories on the upper and lower ends in the mix. The upper limit is firm for unsolicited stories.

    PAYMENT: $0.02 a word on acceptance of completed anthology manuscript by the Publisher, as an advance against pro-rata share of the royalties after earnout, plus one contributor copy.

    READING PERIOD: Opens January 5, 2010, closes June 9, 2010. Manuscripts received before or after this period will be discarded unread, unless prior arrangements have been made otherwise.

    Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Ceases, Hope in the Comments

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    Year's Best Fantasy and HorrorLCRW announced the end of an era. The Anthology that praised the best in Horror and Fantasy published every year has ceased after 21 volumes. Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror collected two genres together, ones that complemented each other. It was good to have the cross-pollination. There’s much sadness in the Fantasy and Horror worlds, yes, but there seems to be glimmers of hope in the Comments section which has turned into a Who’s Who of Fantasy and Horror. In these comments, Ellen Datlow reveals that she has a new publisher for the Horror side of the anthology and Kathryn Cramer, publisher of Year’s Best Fantasy, reveals they have switched publishers. It’s the “narrowly dodged the bullet” reference that Cramer makes that causes me to think that the YBF&H closing might have been a publisher decision to cut costs in the rapidly diminishing American economy* (Ellen Datlow comments below that it was a combination of things, but most importantly it was an agreed-upon decision between the editors and publisher, not a sole publisher decision. My apologies for jumping to conclusions.).

    Editors and authors alike send condolences in the nearly 100 comments that follow the announcement. The anthology was a huge part of the community–a way to celebrate and honor stories that represented what was happening in that community. Award shows can be fleeting celebrations–anthologies preserve and mark the year. I felt like a family gathering in the comments for a funeral or a wake. I look forward to seeing what new incarnations will arise from these decisions. And if there is a wake for the Anthology, I hope it is a big, raucous one for all the good they have done for the community!

    To purchase a copy of the last volume of work, celebrating the best of 2007, follow the links above.

    New Anthology Market– Triangulation: Dark Glass

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    March 31, 2009, Deadline— From Their Website:

    Taking Flight by Vincent ChongTriangulation is an annual 125-150+ page short fiction anthology that publishes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and any other speculative fiction that caught the editors’ fancy. Every year we have a theme: 2009’s theme is “Dark Glass”. We pay semi-pro rates and are available online at places like Amazon.com. We use Lulu.com as our printer, so if the publish-on-demand thing leaves a foul taste in your mouth, avoid us. We’re a small outfit but we work hard to produce a quality product; Asimov’s Science Fiction said we were “equal to any issue of your favorite prozine.”

    No, we don’t get tired of mentioning that Asimov’s said nice things about us.

    We define “short fiction” as “up to about 5,000 words or so.” We have no reason to impose hard and fast arbitrary word limits, but we are interested in publishing a wide variety of entertaining and literate stories, so the more space a story would take, the more it will need to impress us. If you have an awesome story that exceeds 5K then by all means send it; but be warned that if you’re closer to 10,000 words, it will probably need to have the editorial staff cheering and high-fiving each other so much that the senior editor’s roommate’s poodle runs into the room to see what all the commotion is about. And that dog likes his naps.

    We dig flash; there is no minimum word count.

    We have no interest in getting more specific about the term “speculative fiction.” Science fiction, horror, fantasy, magic realism, alternate history, whatever — if there’s a speculative element vital to your story, we’ll gladly give it a read.

    We love creative interpretations of our theme, “Dark Glass”. Don’t ask us what it means — tell us what it means with a story that convinces us you’re right.

    We publish both new and established writers; the level of experience for the authors gracing our pages has ranged from “first time in print” to “Hugo winner.” The majority of our stories usually wind up being from American authors, but we’ve had a number of international contributions; we’re happy to consider work from anywhere in the world, just as long as it’s written in English.

    We will run mature content if we like the story. So make sure there’s an actual story in that mature content.

    We will gladly consider reprints. If the story ran someplace obscure, then it’s probably new to our readers; and if it ran someplace high-profile, it’s probably really good. Either way, we win!

    No poetry. Sorry.

    No fanfic, even if it’s fanfic of a fictional universe that has passed into public domain. Cthulhu Mythos, I’m looking in your direction.

    No thinly-disguised transcripts of roleplaying sessions, no settings obviously based on D&D or other such games. Don’t get us wrong, we love to game ourselves — which means our imaginations are probably too cluttered with elves and dwarves and orcs and the like as it is.

    Submission deadline is March 31, 2009. All electronic submits must be sent by that time, all snail mail submits must be postmarked by that date.

    Compensation:

    We pay two cents per word (USA funds, rounded to the nearest 100 words, US$10 minimum payment) on publication and a single contributor’s copy. The anthology will be published in late July of 2009. We purchase North American Serial Rights, and Electronic Rights for the PDF downloadable version; since we’re cool with reprints, we really don’t care whether we have firsties. All subsidiary rights released upon publication. Contributors will also have the option of purchasing additional copies of the anthology at-cost, exact price TBD.

    How To Submit:

    Electronic submissions make our lives easier. Please send your story to editor@parsecink.org. Please put your subject line in the format of “SUBMISSION: Story Title” so we can tell you apart from the spam.

    We’ll consider stories ONLY in the following formats:

    • .odt (OpenDocument Text — format used by the OpenOffice.org suite) — preferred format
    • .rtf (Rich Text Format — generic document format that most word processors can create)
    • .doc (MS Word — we’re not crazy about it, but let’s face it, it’s the one most people actually use)

    Please use industry standard manuscript format. There’s disagreement on some of the exact details of the “standard” — we’re cool with that. We’re not testing you to see if you can follow each and every niggling detail, we just want a manuscript that looks professional.

    If you absolutely positively can’t use email, please send the manuscript (with either a SASE or a return email address) to:

    Triangulation 2008
    134 Orchard Dr.
    Penn Hills, PA 15235

    No hand-written manuscripts. We gotta draw the line somewhere.

    Please, no multiple submissions; only send us one story at a time. We’ll get back to you promptly, we promise.

    For Full GUIDELINES, CLICK HERE>

    New Market: Federations Anthology–Get your Star Trek on!

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    federations_3All right, Science Fiction Writers, you have another cool opportunity for publication. Remember back when you and me were discussing writing for Star Trek? Well, John Joseph Adams, editor of this year’s fun anthology of zombie stories, The Living Dead, (which has a great story from my BFF Catherine Cheek) is looking for stories about the impacts of far-flung galactic empires in a new anthology called Federations. I quote from his guidelines:

    What are the social, religious, environmental, or technological implications of living in such a vast society? What happens when expansionist tendencies on a galactic scale come into conflict with the indigenous peoples of other planets, of other races? And what of the issue of communicating across such distances, or the problems caused by relativistic travel? These are just some of the questions and issues that the stories in Federations will take on.

    So, if you have an idea you’d like to explore in an intergalactic empire sort of way, in 5000 words or less, submit it to Adams by Jan 1 2009. We may not get to write for Star Trek, but we can write out our Trek-like visions and still discuss the same issues in this anthology–and that may be a better thing than boldly going into Roddenberry’s universe. We get a universe of our own to play with.