Fun story contest!

Hey, all – Andi here, dropping in for a quickie (hee). Our buddies over at Cocktail Hour/Bar Rag have announced a short story contest. In a nuthouse — uh, nutshell: Stories must be between 10K and 30K words, and they must include the phrases “Cocktail Hour” and “bearded clam” somewhere therein. Oh, lordie! You also [...]

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Call for Submissions: Lesbian Cops

Call for Submissions Lesbian Cops Editor: Sacchi Green Publisher: Cleis Press Story Length: 2500-6000 words Payment: $50 plus two contributor’s copies Deadline: August 1, 2010 Release Date: Summer 2011 What is it about lesbian cops? It’s not just the uniform, the confidence, the sense of authority, the hint of danger, although all those things push [...]

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Some Short-story Calls for Submission

Some interesting calls for submission

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Call for Submissions – Read These Lips

Submissions for our 2010 anthology will be accepted between 1 November 2009 to 31 January 2010.  SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES You must be aware of our Terms of Use Each submission: Not more than 4000 words per entry. Not less than 500 words, or 1 page, except for poetry or graphics. However, if making two (2) submissions per [...]

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Call for Submissions – Best Lesbian Erotica 2010

Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 Editor: Kathleen Warnock Publisher: Cleis Press Payment: Honorarium of $100 Deadline: April 1, 2010 Kathleen Warnock is now accepting submissions for Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, to be published by Cleis Press in Fall 2010. Submission Guidelines: – Submit short stories, self-contained novel excerpts, other prose – Unpublished material will be considered [...]

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Call for Submissions: PIRATES! YARRRGH!

Howdy, all. So…anybody up for some pirating? Pillaging? This isn’t just about ol’ fashioned sea-farin’ tales, though we do like a good yarn like that. Sea pirates, space pirates, desert pirates…any setting, any era. Even made up settings and eras. Call for Submissions Skulls and Crossbones A collection of short stories that features women pirates [...]

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Call for Submissions – Fund Raiser

For a charity anthology to benefit the Lambda Legal Fund http://www.lambdalegal.org/ The Lambda Legal fund is currently fighting Prop 8 in an effort to get it overturned by the California Supreme Court. If you believe in marriage equality and the right of LGBT people to marry the person they love, you can help by submitting [...]

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Call for Submissions – Nonfiction

Anatomy of a Marriage Editor: Gail Konop Baker Publisher: this book is in the initial stage of research Published writer is interested in interviewing married women who have had or are currently having affairs, for my new book. This will be anonymous! Title of the new book is: Anatomy of a Marriage. A real and [...]

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Call for Submissions – Erotica

  Circlet Press Ebook Anthologies Editor: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Circlet Press Submission Deadline: October 31, 2008 Payment: Ebook only publications pay $25 per story, with an additional $25 for any book that goes into print.

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Call for Submissions – Literary Journal

Alimentum: The Literature of Food The only literary journal all about food. SUBMISSIONS Reading period: October 1st, 2008 — March 15th, 2009 Please note new address for submissions. Writer Guidelines: We’re seeking fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry all around the subject of food. Submissions accepted via snail mail (no response without SASE). Five-poem limit on poetry [...]

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