INTRODUCTIONS
London-based Anamot Press is looking for submissions for its first anthology on queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Submit original, unpublished poems (up to three) and essays and short stories up to 3,000 words. Selected authors will be paid a fee and receive copies of the anthology. Include a sixty-word bio with submissions. The closing date is 30 January.
Details: email: hello@anamotpress.com; website: www.anamotpress.com/submissions
Writing Magazine presents a selection of current submission calls from publishers. We strongly recommend that you read back issues, familiarise yourself with their guidelines before submitting and check websites for submission details.
The Photographers’ Gallery in London is inviting submissions for its Flash Fiction Open Call: Alternative Networks, as part of the Imagining networks programme exploring existing and potential networks the use images to enable human and machine interactions. All submissions should include a combination of 1-10 images or one video up to 20 seconds and up to 600 words. Up to 15 flash fictions will be published on Unthinking Photography, with a £150 fee for each one.
The closing date is 31 January.
Website: thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Annick Press is inviting submissions of fiction and non-fiction from trans/non-binary/TwoSpirit/genderqueer/gender creative/gender noncompliant writers for a Trans Anthology for Young Readers. The illustrated anthology will be aimed at readers aged twelve and upwards. Writers may be of any age, emerging or established, but all submissions must be aimed at young readers. Selected contributors will receive a small fee and anthology copies. Submissions close on 1 March.
Website: https://writ.rs/transanthology
Air and Nothingness Press are inviting submissions for Upon a Twice Time, an anthology of reinvented fairy tales. All submissions should be between 1,000 and 3,000 words, and should mash up two fairy tales and a genre of the writer’s choice. Writers whose work is selected will be paid 8¢ per word. The closing date is 28 February.
Website: www.aanpress.com
Chicken Soup for the Soul has a call out for an anthology called Tough Times, which invites stories about how the pandemic has affected your life and how you’re handling the changes. Stories and poems should include light and shade, and include resilience and silver linings at the same time as reflecting on the hardship that the pandemic has wrought. Submissions that argue against good health practice (ie, wearing masks) will not be accepted. Writers whose work is accepted will be paid $200. The closing date is 31 March.
Website: www.chickensoup.com
Bi-monthly fantasy fiction mazagine From the Farther Trees is inviting submissions for the first Queer Blades anthology. Submit adventure fantasy stories featuring LGBTQI protagonists and storylines. Romance and eroticism are welcomed, prejudice and bigotry are not. Send short stories, novelettes and novellas between 2,000 and 25,000 words. Selected contributors will receive a small fee and copies of the anthology. The closing date is 28 February.
Website: https://farthertrees.wordpress.com/queerblades/