SFW's FEATURED FICTION
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ALL FANTASY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Guidelines
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Updated:
Dec 18, 2008 |
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- What we want: This is an open
anthology with no theme and we are looking for fantasy fiction. Sword & Sorcery, High Fantasy, Traditional Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, etc. All sub-genres welcome.
- What we don't want: Stories with excessive profanity, child abuse,
bestiality, incest, or hate fiction. We pander to an
adult audience so please no fiction aimed at children.
- Tip: Send us only your best because we will be submitting stories
to a few of the year's best anthologies.
- Length: 4,500 and 20,000 words.
- Deadline: Jan 25, 2009.
- Payment: We will pay a token payment of $5 for original fiction,
paid on publication.
You will also receive a free six month subscription to our
market database for speculative fiction writers ($7.97 value). Authors that have at
least one published novel, novella, anthology, collection
will also receive a free one year listing in our
Book and Magazine
Directory ($7.97 value).
- How we pay: All writers that
submit to us must have an active PayPal account for payment.
- Rights: We purchase exlusive
P.O.D and world-wide
electronic rights (CD, disk, audio, email, download, or any
other digital format known or yet to be invented). We also retain the right to archive
your story up to five years and reprint your story for a possible "Best of the Year
Anthology."
- How to submit:
We accept electronic
submissions only. Send
submissions to
. Make sure to put "ALL FANTASY ANTHOLOGY
and
Title of your story" in the subject line. We use the same
e-mail address for all submissions and without the proper subject line we won't know where your story fits in our publications.
- Note: Your browser also needs to have Javascript
enabled to see the above e-mail address. We do this to hide our
e-mail address from unwanted SPAM and e-mail harvesters
- Format:
No need for a cover letter;
but make sure to include a
short bio (written in
third-person) embedded in
the body of the e-mail. Please
include previous publishing credits and a short 150 word or less blurb (written
in third-person) describing your story. The blurb will be used for marketing
purposes.
- Submission Format:
RTF (.rtf) or MS WORD (.doc) file
sent as an attachment.
Underline all italicized
text. Please include all
contact information with
your manuscript. Use Times
New Roman 12pt font and
single space all paragraphs and
double space all section breaks along with marking them with three asterisks ***.
- Multiple Submissions: You can submit up to two stories.
- Simultaneous Submissions: It's okay with us as long as you let
us know that you've also submitted it elsewhere. And if your story is accepted by another
publication please inform us immediately.
- Reprints: We do not accept reprints at this time.
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Response time: 1-4 months. If you haven't heard
back from us within four months
feel free to query with
the date of your submission or assume it has been rejected.
Our responses will come in the form of a simple form letter via e-mail.
- Publication date: There are no set publication dates for our anthologies
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once an anthology is full we will publish it within twelve months.
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