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In order to connect LGBTQ writers with opportunities to publish, Lambda Literary has collected the following calls for submission and contest listings.
Listings with deadlines appear first; ongoing calls for work appear at the bottom of the list.
If you have an announcement you would like us to post, please email the information to info@lambdaliterary.org.
BEST GAY SHORT STORIES 2007
Deadline: January 31, 2008
Lambda Literary Award nominated editor Steve Berman (Charmed Lives, So Fey) will be reading short fiction featuring significant gay male protagonists and themes for the forthcoming BEST GAY SHORT STORIES: 2007 anthology to release from Lethe Press. All stories MUST have been published in the 2007 calendar year. Stories need not have released in-print; on-line publications are acceptible. No work longer than novelette (17,500 words), please. Stories must have significant gay male characters and themes. Stories with erotic content are eligible, but please know that this will not be a collection of erotica but rather a celebration of the best written stories of 2007. Also, do not hesistate to submit work of speculative fiction, mystery or other genres.
Work should be submitted to:
Steve Berman
118 Heritage Avenue
Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Please do not hesitate to email lethepress@aol.com with any questions. Please put BGSS in subject line. Do not expect a response your work is selected for publication. (If you require your submission returned, please include an SASE.) The final selection of stories will be made in March 2008. Release is slated to coincide with the Saints & Sinners conference in New Orleans in May of 2008. Best Gay Short Stories will release in a library-binding and paperback edition.
LGBT LATINO/A ANTHOLOGY
Deadline: March 15, 2008
An untitled anthology to be published by Floricanto Press in 2008 seeks to promote the best contemporary and original U.S. LGBT Latina/o fiction writing. Submit up to two short stories and or self contained novel excerpts hard-copy in duplicate to Lázaro Lima at the address below. Selected work will require copy-ready version via online attachment. The anthology will include an introduction ny a major gay author and an academic essay on post-Stonewall Latina/o LGBT Queer writing. Remuneration, will be available, although nominal.
Lázaro Lima
Associate Professor
Latina/o Studies
Bryn Mawr College
Department of Spanish
101 N. Merion Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Office: 610-526-5082
Fax: 610-526-7479
BEST LESBIAN ROMANCE 2009
Editor: Radclyffe
Publisher: Cleis Press
Deadline for Submissions: April 1, 2008
Guidelines for Submission: Published or unpublished short stories or novel excerpts. Previously published material will be considered, provided it was or will be published between September 1, 2007 & December 31, 2008. Word count: 5000 words maximum. Electronic submissions of MS Word documents only to: radclyffe@radfic.com, with e-mail header (BLR 2009_author name). In the email, provide the story title, author name, pseudonym, bio, address, phone/fax, e-mail address, word count, where previously published (anthology title/date of release). Story Format: Header -- story title/author name/page number (each page), Times New Roman, 12 point, 1.5 or double-spaced; standard paragraphing; no HTML. File name: Title_Author (Daydreaming_Jane Doe). Please send questions to: radclyffe@radfic.com.
None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa
Edited by: Notisha Massaquoi & Selly Thiam
Deadline: must be received by March 31, 2008
We invite QLGBT Africans to submit original, unpublished essays, poems, short stories, plays, creative non-fiction, and visual art. We're looking for work that explores the lives of QLGBT Africans and how your experiences have shaped you emotionally, politically, socially, and culturally. We are interested in the ideas and language that make you African and QLGBT. We accept work from QLGBT Africans from the continent and those who have immigrated to other parts of the world. We also accept submissions from first generation QLGBT Africans born outside the African Continent. If you self-identify as a QLGBT African but do not fit the criteria written above and would like to submit work for consideration, please write us at: NORsubmission@gmail.com.
ALL WORK NEEDS TO BE TYPED in 12-point font, double-spaced. All submissions should include your name, address, titles, phone number and email address. Please include a short biography with your work. All submissions must be unpublished work. Fiction should be one short story or an edited piece from and larger work. 15pg maximum. Non-fiction should be one essay or an edited piece from and larger work. 15pg maximum. Poetry should be a maximum of three poetry submissions per author. 6 pg maximum. Playwrighting should include one complete work or one act from a larger work. Please limit submissions to 15 pgs.
VISUAL ART
Photos and artwork must be reproducible in black and white. Do not send originals. Send hi-res digital files on CD or ZIP, or high quality photocopies of line art.
All pieces must include a short bio, including age, gender, sexual orientation, nation of origin and/or ethnicity, adopted country, and any other biographical information which is important to understanding your work. This demographic information will not be published. Please indicate the name(s) you would like to use for publication. Don't forget to include your contact information! You will receive confirmation that your submission was received. We greatly appreciate all submissions, and will handle them with care and respect. We look forward to seeing your fantastic work!
Please submit work to: NORsubmission@gmail.com.
QUEER UTOPIAS: A Science Fiction Anthology
edited by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel
Deadline: May 15, 2008
For publication by Arsenal Pulp Press, Spring 2009
We are looking for visions of queer utopias--whether these are self-contained, single-sex communities on our own Earth today; distant future worlds where gender and/or orientation are fluid; societies in which queer women and/or men co-exist apart from the hetero norm; or alien cultures where sexualities of all flavours are celebrated. Extrapolate from life today to imagine compelling "homotopias," where queers are the new normal. Extrapolate from contemporary society to imagine alternate cultures, where all-female/all-male/trisexual/unisexual/even asexual communities exist. Extrapolate from 21st century science to imagine future environments where sexuality is safely, rewardingly celebrated. That is to say: consider dominant cultural discourses that have, for the better part of a century and a half, marked homosexuality as different; subvert the dominant heterotopia to craft your queer utopia.
Think about how your queer utopia was created: what cultural, social, or political forces caused it to come to be? Why was there a need for a distinct homosocial space? But don't just build your utopian vision; people it and tell us the stories of the women/men/other who live there in well-crafted fiction. Imagine the impact on your utopia when an outsider arrives; tell the story of a utopian who for some reason must leave; or write a story in which your characters and their world are self-contained. What conflicts arise because of the creation of this utopia--whether within the community or in reaction to it from without?
A utopia is not always idyllic. We want short stories that celebrate possible queer lives and worlds. But not every world is without flaw, or hostile outside pressures. You might also consider the antithesis of your utopia--oppressive social control, an authoritarian or totalitarian government or culture that is in opposition to your world: a dystopia which threatens the ideal.
There is a long tradition of feminist utopian critiques that posit an all-female society, but outside of gay pornography there are relatively few all-male utopian visions, something this anthology hopes to consider/rectify to whatever degree. That said, and despite having two male co-editors, we are very much hoping to create a book of short stories that consider queer utopias through a broad lens. This applies, as well, to your approach in tackling the concept of a queer utopia: we're looking for stories from science fiction writers who want to explore the implications of sexuality or for stories rooted in a queer/feminist background that're imagining a desirable (or perhaps undesirable, to some or all) future.
As an anthology for a Canadian publisher, preference will be given to submissions from Canadian writers. But the anthology is open to submissions from all writers, and is actively interested in non-North American writers.
Story length: we are open in terms of length, up to a maximum of 10,000 words. Keep in mind, however, that longer stories will have to knock our socks off to justify our not including two stories of shorter length. Submission instructions:
1) Title the file with author's last name and story title in the file name: Surname-Title.doc (Do not simply title your piece QueerUtopias.doc, at least not the version you submit to us.)
2) Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your piece, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read.
3) Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc format, to queerutopias@gmail.com
Payment: an honorarium and one copy of the book will be paid. (Please note that payment is in Canadian funds.)
First Biennial
White Crane / James White Poetry Prize
Judge: Mark Doty
Deadline : October 30, 2008
White Crane Institute in collaboration with Phil Willkie, are proud to announce the establishment of the biennial White Crane / James White Poetry Prize for Gay male poets. The judge for the first year will be poet and author, Mark Doty and will be awarded in spring 2009 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publishing of White Crane Journal.
White Crane is the Journal of Gay Men’s Wisdom and Culture. It was established in 1989 and has published quarterly for twenty years. In 2004 it was an Utne Independent Press nominee. The magazine has been published by the White Crane Institute since 2005, which also publishes White Crane Books, and sponsors Gay cultural retreats and programs nationally. Mr. Willkie is the former publisher of the James White Review and is the literary executor of the James L. White Estate.
A prize of $1,000, publication by White Crane Books, and 5 author copies will be given annually for a book-length poetry collection. Submit 48 to 80 pages of poetry with a $25 entry fee, postmarked by October 30, 2008. Visit the White Crane web site www.gaywisdom.org.
UNSPEAKABLE HORROR:
FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE CLOSET
Edited By: Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder
Minimum Length: 1,000 words
Maximum Length: 7,500 words
Dark Scribe Press is seeking short story submissions for an anthology of queer horror tales. We are looking for edgy, provocative dark genre fiction – horror and dark psychological suspense only. We are not interested in science fiction/fantasy or mystery for this anthology. We’re looking for stories about those terrors that populate the closets of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Terrors can be of any shape, size, and theme – supernatural, psychopaths and slashers, vampires, werewolves, zombies, urban legends, ghosts, witchcraft, demons, and original horrors of any kind.
At Dark Scribe Press, we believe that horror is meant to unnerve, disquiet, and strike deeply at the darkest places in readers’ hearts. We believe that writers should never be restricted within the established genre limitations and should feel comfortable offering up their darkest tales. As the publisher, if we don’t like it or it’s not a right fit for a particular anthology, we’ll simply politely pass on the submission. Taboo and edgy subject matters are welcome if handled in a literary manner – nothing is off limits if well executed and compelling. Stories may include explicit sex and erotic elements if well-integrated into the tale itself – we are not looking for a subtle ghost story with a raunchy sex scene inserted into the middle of it. Please avoid clichés – unless you have a fresh queer twist or perspective to offer.
At the heart of all submissions must be a distinct queer theme running through the fabric of the story – stories that represent the harmful effects of repression, the manifestation of homophobia (both internal and external), childhood anxieties that run parallel to sexual orientation and the coming out process, and any other well-conceived and executed queer theme.
Email queries only. As with all Dark Scribe Press calls for submissions, your query represents our first impression of you and your story. Avoid rattling off an abstract to us in an informal email – chances are we’ll pass. We’re looking to see that writers have given thought to their story and have the ability to articulate those thoughts.
Queries can be emailed to publisher@darkscribepress.com beginning October 1, 2007 and will be accepted through May 15, 2008. Response time to queries is 30-60 days. Once a query receives a greenlight, the deadline for actual submissions is June 30, 2008. Response time to submissions is 30-60 days. Please put Query / Anthology in the subject line of all emails to help us efficiently route your email. Kindly note that queries with attachments will be deleted – do not send your story until you have queried us first. Format guidelines will be emailed upon our response to your initial query. Terms: Pays $.05 per word upon acceptance. No simultaneous submissions and no reprints. Questions: info@darkscribepress.com or visit our website at www.DarkScribePress.com.
BLACK LESBIAN EROTIC ANTHOLOGY
I Love You To Death: Black Lesbian Diaries
Edited by Shonia L. Brown
Deadline: Accepting submissions until October 31, 2008
Compensation: Two copies of the published anthology.
Nghosi Books brings you its deadliest and most tantalizing tales of black lesbian erotica in the form of diaries from lesbians who won't take no for an answer. Have you ever had a one night stand that you wished you hadn't? Or what about the woman that you know loves you...if she would just give into her hidden desires? Do you find yourself looking over your shoulders after inhaling a scent of her hypnotic perfume? And try as you might, because you know you shouldn't, you fantasize and might just a little, desire this strange but sexy lesbian whose favorite lyrics are, "If loving you is wrong, I don?t wanna be right!" Do you have a tale of obsessive passion and/or borderline stalker story in you, written as if it were from a page of your very own private diary? Then join the talented new writers from Nghosi Books with our second edition from the New Voices Series of our small print press with the upcoming release of I Love You to Death: Black Lesbian Diaries.
Stories should be no more than 4,000 words. Be as sexy, sensual, even explicit as you like, but no porn. No underage or non-consensual encounters, no animals, etc. Previously unpublished material is preferred, but excerpts from published work are also acceptable. In the case of previously published work, you must have the reprint rights. (Indicate where and when published, plus rights status. This means full disclosure of publishing history.)
Submit stories in typewritten hard copy only, double-spaced. Manuscripts not chosen will be discarded, so do not send your only copy. Include with your submission a brief author bio and your e-mail address. No e-mail submissions, please. For additional information, contact Nghosi Books at nghosi@bellsouth.net with the Subject heading of: Nghosi Books Anthology 2009.
Mail submissions to:
Nghosi Books
Attn: NBANTHOLOGY2009
P.O. Box 1908
Stone Mountain, GA 30086
Breaking Up is Harder to Do: True Tales of "Gay Divorce"
Edited by Kate Walter
www.katewalter.com
Deadline: April 15, 2008
Splitting up is rough for every couple, but it’s more complex when you are gay or lesbian. While public discussion focuses on the gay marriage debate. this anthology will focus on the other side- the ending of long term homosexual relationships. Breaking Up is Harder to Do: True Tales of “Gay Divorce” will discuss recovering and moving on after a painful same sex split; dissolving a union never totally recognized in the first place and fighting to win what rightfully goes to divorcing married straight couples. This literary anthology will explore all aspects of the break up of long term lesbian and gay relationships (whether married civil unioned, domestic partner or none of these). Possible topics for exploration:
*getting better with a little help from friends and family
(and shrinks, support groups, etc.)
*dispensing of the assets: real estate, money, children
( was it fair or did you get screwed?)
*recovering and moving on (dating and having sex again)
Seeking 1,000- 3,000 word essays, preferably unpublished but will consider previously published material.
Overview: When my 26 year lesbian relationship ended last year, I was left with a worthless domestic partnership agreement and no legal access to the money my former partner had saved for our retirement. She had a midlife crisis and walked out. When I wrote “A Divorce that Isn’t” for the editorial pages of Newsday, (11/19/2006), I received a tremendous response, including accolades from the lesbian and gay community.
My “gay divorce” was the worst experience of my life. It would have been comforting to pick up a book where gay men and lesbians who were in long term committed relationships shared their personal stories of break ups and recoveries. Now I plan to edit the book I needed to read and could not find. This concept would be similar to the many successful coming out anthologies that made readers feel “we are not alone.”
I have a contract with an agent. Any questions, please email me at kwriter@aol.com
SEVEN KITCHENS PRESS announces the 2008 ROBIN BECKER CHAPBOOK PRIZE
for an original, unpublished manuscript in English
by a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered writer
Prize: $100 plus 25 copies. Submission deadline: Postmarked between March 1 and May 15 of each year. Eligibility: Open to all L/G/B/T poets writing in English (no translations, please).
COMPLETE GUIDELINES:
Any poet who identifies as L/G/B/T is eligible to submit to the Robin Becker Chapbook Award. The manuscript itself need not address L/G/B/T themes, though such work is welcome. The final judge for this series is Robin Becker.
Submit a paginated manuscript of 16-24 pages (not including front matter). Include two cover pages: one with the manuscript title, author name, address, e-mail and phone number; the second cover page should have the manuscript title only. Include a table of contents page. Include, if applicable, an acknowledgments page for work previously published.
Please include, on a separate page, a brief (100-150 words) biographical note. The author's name must not appear in the manuscript. All manuscripts will be blind judged, meaning all identifying material will be separated from the manuscripts as they are logged in. Manuscript titles and their log numbers will be posted on the web site [http:// sevenkitchens.blogspot.com] as they are received.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us promptly if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Submissions must be posted between March 1 and May 15, 2008. The winning manuscript will be announced on or before August 15. Manuscript finalists will also be announced, and may be eligible for publication in the chapbook series.
Manuscripts will not be returned. E-mailed submission is preferred, but you may send via regular mail. Do not staple or bind your manuscript. If you are sending by mail, please use a binder clip and mail flat in an 8.5 x 11 envelope. If you are sending by e-mail, please send one document in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .rtf files are ideal); you must include the words “Robin Becker Chapbook” in the subject line of your e-mail.
Include a $12 reading fee with each manuscript you submit (multiple submissions are welcome). Checks should be made payable to Ron Mohring. Online payment may be made via PayPal to sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com. Each entrant will receive one copy of the winning chapbook, to be published before December 31, 2008.
Send your manuscript:
~ by e-mail, as a Microsoft Word attachment, to: sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com; or ~ by mail to Ron Mohring, Publisher; PO Box 668; Lewisburg PA 17837.
Coming Out While Married Stories by Black Lesbians
Deadline: June 30, 2008
RedBone Press seeks well-written personal stories by black lesbians on the subject of coming out while married to a man. Looking for journal entries, personal essays, creative autobiographical fiction, poetry or whatever way the words come together to describe your coming out. This book is intended to be a resource for black women coming out of marriage, and for the women who love them.
Some questions to address are: How did you tell him? (The “honey, can we talk” speech?) What language did you use to communicate your secret? Did you know your orientation before you got married or after? Why didn’t you keep it to yourself? Were there any fears of violence? Did it delay your coming out? What is the present state of your relationship with him? Do you have any regrets? Do your kids know? How do you manage co-parenting with your ex-husband?
We are also looking for stories from women who are partnered with formerly married women, addressing their point of view surrounding these issues.
Please send submission, double-spaced and typed (no more than 35 pages) along with a SASE to the address below. E-mail submissions welcome; send files attached as a Word or an rtf document, along with complete contact information (snail and e-mail addresses).
RedBone Press
P.O. Box 15571
Washington, DC 20003
redbonepress@yahoo.com
Coming Out of the Closet Again: Queer Women on Loving Men
Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press, due out in 2008
Editor: Cheryl Burke
Email Submission to: libi_women@yahoo.com
Deadline: October 15. But please let me know ASAP if you're interested in submitting and what you would like to write about.
Payment: $25, plus two copies of the book
I’m interested in women with personal stories of coming out again and women who identify as lesbian/queer-identified bisexuals.
- Did you start dating a man after you were out as a lesbian?
- Are you a lesbian with a boyfriend?
- Are you both bi and dyke?
- How do you maintain a queer identity while you are being perceived as straight?
- How have those around you reacted to your coming out again?
Submit well-written personal essays/nonfiction, 5-12 double spaced pages. Some prose poetry may also be considered. I cannot accept erotica for this project. Please include a brief bio and your contact information with your submission.
If you would like to discuss essay ideas/topics or if you have any questions, please contact Cheryl at libi_women@yahoo.com.
CLEIS CALLS FOR SUBMISSION
from Richard Labonte:
For the sensual anthology series BEST GAY ROMANCE 2009 (Cleis Press, Winter 2008) I'm looking for short stories (maximum 6,000 words) that are as sweet as they are steamy, as emotive as they are erotic: fiction (or true stories) about two men (or, who knows, more) falling in love. The wooing and the winning, the blush of a crush, the details of a date, the rush of romance... If great rough tender tough sex happens, that's fine, but the emphasis in these stories should be on what happens on the way to 'sexual congress' - or what happens after it, happily ever after. Deadline: May 20, 2008. Submissions to Richard Labonte <cleiseditor@gmail.com>; please put BGR 2009 in the subject line. Original stories or work published in 2007.
For the erotic anthology DADDIES: Gay Erotic Fiction (Cleis Press,
Spring 2009), I'm looking for short stories (max 6,000 words) about
the lust and the love of younger men for older men, of twinks
hankering for silver foxes, of young men drawn to sexual Daddies, of
spunky lads just coming out who want to learn the erotic ways of the
world from a man with the meat of years on his bones. Everything goes,
from sexually playful to hardcore S/M, for this collection about
relations between men of different generations. Deadline: Aug. 15,
2008. Submissions to: Richard Labonte <cleiseditor@gmail.com>; please put "Daddies" in the subject line. Original stories preferred, though reprints will be considered.
For the erotic anthology BOY CRAZY: The First Time (Cleis Press,
Summer 2009), I'm looking for sexual/erotic coming-out short stories
(max 6,000 words) about "first times" - young adult fiction (or
memories) recounting the first time experiencing the pleasure of
self-sex play, the first time experiencing the thrill of same-sex
play, the first time experiencing everything from falling into bed to
falling in love with another man . Deadline: Oct. 15, 2008.
Submissions to Richard Labonte <cleiseditor@gmail.com>; please put
"Boy Crazy" in the subject line. Original stories only.
BEST GAY POETRY, edited by Lawrence Schimel
BEST LESBIAN POETRY, edited by Linda Alvarez
Deadline is December 1, 2008
For the 2009 editions of this exciting new series celebrating the best in gay/lesbian poetry, A Midsummer Night's Press invites submissions of poems PUBLISHED during 2008.
Poems can have appeared in print or online magazines, journals, or anthologies; we are also willing to consider poems from books or chapbooks first published in 2007, even if the poem was originally published previously in periodicals, so long as the poet has the right to reprint the poem.
We are considering periodicals which appeared in 2007 but in issues dated 2008 to be eligible for the current volume. Poems appearing in periodicals published in 2008 but dated 2009 will be considered for next year's volume.
We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse; we are likewise open-minded in terms of content, so long as it somehow fits (even if pushing the boundaries of) what might be considered "gay poetry" or "lesbian poetry".
We are willing to consider slam poetry, so long as it has been published in text form, not merely performed; the poem must also work on the page, for these anthologies.
We are open to English-language poetry from all over the world, and actively look to include non-North American voices.
Please include contact information (both street and email address), bio, and where the poem was published WITHIN the .doc file, as documents will be read separately from the emails.
Please title documents with the poet's surname. Submissions from individual poets or queries should be sent by email in .doc format to one of the following addresses, as appropriate:
BestGayPoetry@gmail.com or BestLesbianPoetry@gmail.com
(We will consider submissions of work that is scheduled to appear in the latter half of the year, but which has not yet been published.)
Each volume will also include a bibliographic round-up of all books/journals/anthologies of gay/lesbian poetry published the previous year. We also welcome recommendations or suggestions of appropriate poems from editors of journals, anthologies, or presses. Please send books or journals to the appropriate editor at A Midsummer Night's Press, 16 West 36th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10018. www.amidsummernightspress.com
Coming Out American Style: Am I the only queer person in------?!?!?
Is there a difference between coming out in New Jersey as oppose to Oklahoma?
To answer this question we are calling for submissions for a new anthology of coming out stories "COMING OUT AMERICAN STYLE" celebrating the diversity of
the American experience. I are looking for coming out stories from the entire GLBT community. The goal is to have a story from every state and territory
of the United States of America and to have every story followed by contact information from GLBT organizations of that state or territory. I am looking
to answer for every young person "Am I the only one?"” We know they are not alone and this anthology will be a way to let them know. If you would like to
share your story and any information about GLBT organizations in your state please send your submissions to me at COAmericanstyle@aol.com
Story length should be between 1500 and 5000 words in length.
Deadline for submissions is January, 23 2008.
Submissions are answering the following question: "How did where I came out affect how I came out?"
Each author included in the anthology will receive one copy of the anthology, any additional possible compensation will be discussed upon publication of the book.
CROOKED LETTER I
Editors: Connie Griffin and David Hooks
Creative Nonfiction: Memoir, Personal Essays, Literary Journalism
Deadline: No later than May 1, 2008; Early submissions welcome
Submission Guidelines at www.comingoutinthesouth.com
We are seeking submissions for a collection of creative nonfiction stories focusing on the distinct nature of "coming out" in the South. We are interested in many themes covering the full scope of "coming out" experiences, from the tragic to the hilarious. Nonfiction stories and essays may weave thematic threads such as sexuality, race and ethnicity, gender, religion and spirituality, self-esteem, and socio-economic class as uniquely experienced by southern LGBTs.
We are looking for fresh takes on the LGBT aesthetic of "coming out." Give us a glimpse of an illuminating moment or an emotional passage from your gay, lesbian, bi, trans, or otherwise queer, southern life. Topics may cover family, friends, falling in love, overcoming obstacles, parenting, legal issues, discovery, orientation, passing, not passing, inspiration, socializing, growing up, or other themes we haven't thought of yet.
Many of us have left the South since our childhoods or “coming out.” All whose primary “coming out” was experienced in the South, in relation to southern family or community, regardless of their current residence, are encouraged to submit their story. We've all got a story to tell; we're hoping you will share yours.
Writers may submit narratives in the form of memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, cultural commentary, or take other approaches of your own invention. All nonfiction submissions will be considered. NONFICTION ONLY; NO FICTION, PLEASE.
BEST BI SHORT STORIES
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Editor: Sheela Lambert, info@biwriters.org
http://www.biwriters.org/pages/call_for_subsI.html
We are seeking stories that illuminate something about the experience of being bi. Stories can focus on relationships, romance, dating and sex, of course, but we’d like to see more than that. We’d like to see stories about relationships with parents, relatives or children…Passover Seder anyone? We’d like a bi military story, a bi same-sex marriage story, a senior citizen story, a job discrimination or acceptance story, a story about a bisexual pet…from the pet’s point of view. We want to see bi athletes, bi cowboys, bi action-heroes, spies, super-heros and vampires. Bi friends go to a movie, bump into their exes who dumped them, and hold hands; pretending to be on a date. A bi artist struggles to finish a painting. A bi person has a spiritual vision. A bi transsexual teacher who leaves for summer vacation as Don and comes back on the first day of school as Donna. All genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, romance, historical, mystery, western, vampires, etc. as well as contemporary fiction are encouraged. Semi-autobiographical events written in short story format with names changed are welcome. Sex scenes in the context of a story are fine but this is literary fiction: erotica not accepted.
Requirements & Publishing Info
There is no pre-set maximum story length, we would accept even 100 pages if it was amazing. A chapter (or chapters) of an unpublished novel may be submitted if it can stand alone. Title page of manuscript should have in the upper left corner: Story title & author's pen name (or legal name if the same) on first line. Author's legal name, email address, street address, phone number and genre of story below. If story has been published anywhere before, please state when and where. Submit as attachment along with bio to info@biwriters.org. Your bio/author’s statement should specify whether you are bi and if not, say what led you to write a bi short story.
FREE LESBIAN ANTHOLOGY
ReadTheseLips.com presents a lesbian short fiction anthology in Read These Lips: Openings. We are pleased to bring you twenty-one reflections on lesbian life in stories and poetry ranging from fantasy and science fiction to erotica and everyday issues, showcasing some of the increasing diversity and complexity in lesbian fiction today. AK Naten, Anne Azel, Anne Laughlin, Beatriz Copello, JLNicky, Lara Zielinsky, MsPrism, Pearlie McNeill, Ren Peters, Renée Strider, Shadylady, Therese Szymanski, Tricia Dearborn and Trish Shields have generously donated their works for our first edition. We invite you to pick up a free copy from www.readtheselips.com.
Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism
New Anthology scheduled for publication in 2008 by Rebel Satori Press. Deadline: September 30, 2007
The Surrealists and the radical edge of gay lib represent two of the
most sweeping movements for liberation of the last century—and both
continue to this day. Moreover, the pair also created two remarkable
“cultures of desire,” seeing sexuality as a primordial, transformative
force, and exploring the power of dreams, fantasies, personae. They
provided homes to the /flaneur/ and saw the city and its hidden places
as vital, almost alive—and in different, but related, ways both saw the
worlds of the imagination and “real life” as overlapping each other.
More importantly, the two took such things as actively political -- revolutionary -- in fact. These resonances can be found in the
depictions of Paris in Aragon and the swooning landscape of sections of
White’s /Nocturnes for the King of Naples/, in the novels of Rene Crevel and the extensions of automatism and dream material in much of
Burroughs, in the permeability of text-world-voice in (largely queer)
New Narrative writing, in the obsessional desire that animates great
swatches of both Breton’s anti-novels and Wojnarowicz’s memoirs. And the list of analogues could be longer…
Given this, we feel it’s high time for an anthology of prose investigating this subterranean relationship.
We’re looking for: short fiction and essays, prose poems, automatic texts and dream narratives, genre-defying pieces that explore/embody the relationships between gay men and Surrealism as a radical/literary movement exploring desire, the imagination and the fluid boundaries between the world and the mind.
What we’d prefer NOT to see: Memoirs about how seeing that picture in the MOMA changed your life, writing that takes “surreal” as a synonym for “strange.” And, if your main reference points for surrealism are a couple of Dali paintings, this anthology probably isn’t the place for your work.
Send submissions to: Peter Dubé, PO Box 643, Succ. Place du Parc,
Montreal, Quebec H2X 4A6, Canada. Enclose SASE (sufficient Canadian postage or IRC’s) for the return of your material if you want it back. Submissions without same will be destroyed. Email submissions will be deleted unopened.
ARKTOI BOOKS
Deadline: August through November, 2007
Editor: Eloise Klein Healy
Arktoi Books is a new imprint of Red Hen Press that will specialize in publishing the work of lesbian authors. This year, Arktoi Books is seeking FICTION manuscripts. All styles and aesthetics are welcome. Manuscripts may be submitted between August and November. For submission requirements, please visit http://redhen.org/arktoi.asp Or, for more information, you may contact Eloise Klein Healy through her website: www.eloisekleinhealy.com
Two Hawks Quarterly, a Literary e-Zine
Two Hawks Quarterly is a literary publication brought to you by the Undergraduate Creative Writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles, CA. We are dedicated to sparking debate and discussion through exposing the world to the most challenging, edgy and lyrical prose, poetry, memoir, and artwork available.
Submission Guidelines: Currently we are accepting submissions for the Fall 2007 issue. We are looking for well written and compelling works in the following genres: Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry
Memoir, and Cross Genre. E-mail submissions in the body of your e-mail (do not send file attachments) to: submissionstwohawks@yahoo.com.
Penthouse Variations
Penthouse Media Group
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 1125
New York, NY 10121
Penthouse Variations is a digest-sized magazine, which is published twelve times a year. Editorial content, which varies per month, consists of erotic feature stories and reader letters in some of the following categories:
Anal Sex, Bisexuality, Bondage, Casual Encounters, Dominant Sexplay, Exhibitionism, Erotic Fantasy, Exotic Vacations, Female Domination, Fetishism, Group Sex, Lesbianism, Masturbation, May/December Affairs, Oral Sex, Outdoor Sex, Role-Playing, Sex Toys, S&M, Spanking, Swinging, Threesomes, Tickling, Transvestism, Video Sex, Voyeurism, Watching My Wife.
Submissions to Penthouse Variations should be double-spaced and on white paper. If you are making a professional freelance submission to be published as one of our feature stories, be sure to clearly indicate this in a cover letter to the editor.
Penthouse Variations publishes first-person narratives in the 3,000 to 3,500 word range, containing explicit sex scenes set within a specific category and placed within the context of a realistic plot with well-developed characters. Stories should be written in past tense. Submissions written in present tense will not be considered. We do not publish poetry of any kind or purchase unsolicited illustrations or photographs.
Penthouse Variations does not accept unsolicited electronic story
submissions or pay for material sent to the editorial office via e-mail. For
your material to be considered for publication as a feature story, you must send a manuscript to the editorial office with your legal name and mailing address printed on the first page. Please include an SASE or a working e-mail address for a reply.
Penthouse Variations will not consider unsolicited material that has been
previously published in print, online or in any other format. Penthouse
Variations purchases all rights to contracted material. Payment for an
accepted, fully revised manuscript is up to $400.00. Two contributor's
copies of the magazine are mailed to each author of a feature story upon
publication.
Manuscripts usually take six to eight weeks to be read. They may be rejected because of the quality of the writing, a lack of category focus or because the category described is unsuitable or oversold to us. We strongly recommend that writers read several issues of the magazine to become familiar with our categories, style and vocabulary. Adults interested in viewing sample stories and letters may find them at¹ web site: www.variations.com.
Penthouse Variations is proud of its reader-generated letter sections and
less experienced writers should feel free to make submissions to the editor on this basis. Reader letters may be of any length or subject matter and may be typed or handwritten. Letters may be sent to the editorial office via surface mail or e-mail at: variations@pmgi.com. Letters to Penthouse Variations magazine are assumed intended for publication and republication in all media, in whole or in part, edited or unedited. All letters become the property of Penthouse Variations. We do not make payments for letter material.
To submit a letter or a professional freelance submission to Penthouse
Variations, you must be an adult who is eighteen years of age or older. By submitting material to Penthouse Variations, you confirm that you are eighteen years of age or older.
Penthouse Variations guarantees confidentiality of all material, both
letters and stories. In fact, the editors choose pseudonyms in order to
avoid writers inadvertently revealing their identities in choosing their
own.
GAYLIFESTYLEMONTHLY.COM (ongoing call)
Fiction: Queries welcome, but not required. Your piece should be about 1000 words. Often, shorter is better. Vignettes are always welcome. Features: Instruct, enlighten or motivate your reader in about 500 to 800 words. More are okay, if the subject and quality warrants it. The piece must be topical. Commentaries welcome. Articles about events must be dated. We encourage art in support of these pieces! News: 250 to 500 words. The story should consist of your original copy, not submissions from news outlets. All news must be dated. Art: Photos, drawings, etc., are highly encouraged. Please submit as .jpg files. Include information about the piece, such as subject, commentary, etc.
By making a submission, you are certifying you own the rights to the material and are authorized to submit it for publication. The editors reserve the right to make necessary changes for punctuation, spelling and grammar, and insertion of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) key words. Language appropriate to the topic is required. Since we have so many titles, it's difficult to set any strict rules, but keep your readership in mind when you write. We believe in free speech, but reasonable limits should be considered.
Copy will be in either 10- or 12-point Times New Roman with standard formatting. Extravagant formatting, colors, art within the body of the copy, etc. is not acceptable. Submit only as .doc or .txt files. IMPORTANT: At the top of the first page, place your name, address, phone number, email address and, if you are submitting work for pay, your Tax ID number (see below). No work will be accepted without this. Author retains rights. We pay upon acceptance. Payment will be based on published word count. Depending on the article, we will pay $.01 - $.015 per word, with a $5.00 minimum. We will let you know if we have accepted your piece for publication in less than 60 days.
All submissions will be via email. No paper, "hard copy" submissions will not be considered. Email stories formatted as discussed to ellen@gaylifestylemonthly.com or Ellen_gaylifestylemonthly@yahoo.com.
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