I’ve got what isn’t so much blogger’s block as I have something I want to write about that would take a little more research than I have time for today. So I’m going to do what I always do when I need filler: hit Duotrope and look for new paying genre anthologies!
Detours: Peculiar Places of West Virginia. The call for submissions page may seem sparse, but remember the call for submissions for Mammoth Book of Steampunk was little more than a LiveJournal entry. This is an anthology coming from both an established publisher and established editor, so it can afford to be a little less flashy. It’s also a pro-rate market, with the caveat of a 2500 word limit. They want real places in West Virginia, real history, and the place must be integral. Deadline: May 31, 2011
Appalachian Undead. Notice a theme here? With Mothman still open, and both Detours and Appalachian Undead around, it’s a fine time to be writing horror set in the Mountain State. This anthology has a listing on Duotrope. I couldn’t actually find a link within the publisher’s website to the submission details, and had to back out to Google to search for them. Bad publisher. Anyway, here’s their link. It’s another 2500 word limit, this one offering just a penny a word and submitters copy. Deadline: July 1, 2011
The New Flesh. An established online journal, the New Flesh celebrates the weird. The really weird. And they’re gearing up for their inaugural print anthology. Typically they’re about the unpaid flash fiction, but for this anthology they want 3000-7000 words and a paying a penny each for them on publication. The details are here, and poke around their site to look at the kind of things they want. Stories don’t have to be set in West Virginia, though I don’t suppose they’d turn one down that is just for that fact. Deadline: July 31, 2011 or until filled.
Over on my blog this week, I provided a short book review, and then made beer. Mmm, beer. West Virginia population density map courtesy of Wikipedia, released under Creative Commons license.
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DL Thurston is a writer of novels, screenplays, and the occasional short story. He has short stories due out soon in the Steam Works anthology from Hydra Publications and in The Memory Eater. When he's not writing, he also brews beer and even drinks it sometimes. Check out his exploits either on his blog or on Twitter.
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