Writing thoughts & stuff
Dec. 10th, 2019 01:15 pm1. My payment came through for my story in the Moonlight werewolf anthology! I am RICH BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS OF AVARICE and filled with the desire to submit stories to more anthologies in hopes of multiplying my riches.
2. I've actually collected a couple of recent calls for anthology submissions, and I thought I would share them here in case you, too, want to hop on the anthology gravy train.
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sovay mentioned the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series, which is accepting short stories of up to 5000 words in the lesbian historic fiction genre, set before 1900, settings outside of 19th century America and England preferred. (Although, uh, probably mine will be set in 19th century America or England, given my areas of expertise.) Submissions must be sent in January.
Somewhere on Twitter I heard about Silk & Steel: An Adventure Anthology of Queer Ladies, "stories of high adventure that feature one weapon-wielding woman and one woman whose strengths lie in softer skills." They've already got a stellar author list (Ellen Kushner! Yoon Ha Lee!) so it's, um, optimistic for me to send in a story for this one, but you never know if you don't try! Suggested length 3,000-7,000 words, with 10,000 words as an upper limit. Deadline February 22, 2020.
3. If you know of other anthologies with open calls for submissions, this is the place to share them!
4. It has occurred to me that if I submitted a story to an anthology each month for all of 2020, at the end of the year I would have a nice pile of stories and if none of the anthologies wanted them I could release them myself, which is kind of a win-win situation.
2. I've actually collected a couple of recent calls for anthology submissions, and I thought I would share them here in case you, too, want to hop on the anthology gravy train.
sovay mentioned the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series, which is accepting short stories of up to 5000 words in the lesbian historic fiction genre, set before 1900, settings outside of 19th century America and England preferred. (Although, uh, probably mine will be set in 19th century America or England, given my areas of expertise.) Submissions must be sent in January. Somewhere on Twitter I heard about Silk & Steel: An Adventure Anthology of Queer Ladies, "stories of high adventure that feature one weapon-wielding woman and one woman whose strengths lie in softer skills." They've already got a stellar author list (Ellen Kushner! Yoon Ha Lee!) so it's, um, optimistic for me to send in a story for this one, but you never know if you don't try! Suggested length 3,000-7,000 words, with 10,000 words as an upper limit. Deadline February 22, 2020.
3. If you know of other anthologies with open calls for submissions, this is the place to share them!
4. It has occurred to me that if I submitted a story to an anthology each month for all of 2020, at the end of the year I would have a nice pile of stories and if none of the anthologies wanted them I could release them myself, which is kind of a win-win situation.
