SFW's FEATURED FICTION
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Update
May 14th 2009
Note: We had a computer crash
and lost all submissions to SpecFicWorld's Featured Fiction, including submissions to the Weird Westerns, Weirducopia, and Paradise
lost anthologies - we are asking all
writers and artists to please submit again.
Deadline extended to Aug 15th, 2009 |
- Reading Period:
We are now open to submissions.
- What we want: Looking for dark,
weird, bizarre, literary speculative fiction. Nothing is too taboo or out of bounds here.
- 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: 3,500 - 16,000 words.
- Deadline: August 15, 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: All rights revert
back to the Author after one year or more depending on the contract. We purchase exlusive
P.O.D and world-wide
electronic rights (CD, disk, audio, email, online,
etc).
We also retain the right to archive
your poem/story up to five years and reprint your poem/story for a possible "Best of the Year
Anthology."
- Note: We publish in electronic
format (PDF/html) first. If sales are good we will pulish a print version (P.O.D).
- How to submit:
We accept electronic
submissions only. Send
submissions to
. Make sure to put "WEIRDUCOPIA 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: No.
- Simultaneous Submissions: No.
- Reprints: We do not accept reprints at this time.
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Response time: 60 days after deadline (June 15, 2009).
Our responses will come in the form of a simple form letter or contract sent via e-mail.
- Publication date: There are no set publication dates for our anthologies
--
once an anthology is full we will publish it within twelve months.
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