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SUMMARY:F - Liars' League Looking for Stories about being: Down & Out
DESCRIPTION:Submit your work to be read LIVE at our next event\, DOWN & OUT on Tuesday 10th June at The Phoenix \n\n\nFallen from grace\, or falling on your face\, out for the count or out-out on the town\, down in the dumps or deep below the earth (or the waves)\, on the road with no fixed abode … be creative and show us what you can do with this theme! As ever\, we’re looking for unpublished short fiction of 800-2000 words\, & will consider flash fiction\, short stories & even novel extracts (so long as they can stand alone). Please see full guidelines here\, then email to liars@liarsleague.com by 11.59pm UK time on Sunday 4th May.\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\, IN SHORT:\n– New fiction\, i.e. unpublished (print/web/audio)\n– Stories which are on-theme\n– Anonymised (no name on the document)\n– Word count: STRICTLY 800-2000\n– Send to: liars@liarsleague.com \n\nStories must be \n1. Unpublished (in print or online)\, unbroadcast\, and not a prizewinner in any previous competition. \n2. Between 800-2000 words long. \n3. Submitted to liars@liarsleague.com by 11.59pm (UK time) of the deadline day for the theme in question. Deadlines and monthly themes can be found here. \n4. Submitted as an MS Word (.doc\, .docx) or .rtf document\, ideally with 1.5 or double spacing. NO PDFs PLEASE. \n5. Attached to an email which has the story title\, the month of the event and the theme in the subject header: e.g. Love Story\, February\, He & She. Please put your name at the bottom of your email but NOT on your story\, as we prefer to judge anonymously. \n6. A prose short story. This means no poetry\, no scripts\, no non-fiction. We’ll look at novel extracts\, but only if they work as stand-alone pieces. \n7. ON-THEME. This means that there should be a traceable link to the theme\, or that the theme should be invoked or interpreted as a central part of the story. Simply featuring a bar called “Duck & Dive” if that’s the theme is not enough; but make your main character a dodgy dealer in stolen goods\, and we’ll be interested. \nWriters must be \n1. Willing to have their name and the text of their story up on this site if they win. \n2. Willing to be paid for their work in kind. Unfortunately\, Liars’ League does not currently pay contributors in $ or £. However\, if your story is chosen\, you will benefit from the following: \n– Publication of your story on this site: it will also be considered for future print anthologies published by our partners Arachne Press \n– Free drinks all night (if you are able to attend the event). Teetotallers will be fed. \n– A reading of your work by a professional actor (CLICK HERE to see a blog post on what that’s like\, written by five-time winning author Mike Clarke) \n– An MP3 and a link to a YouTube video recording of the reading \n– SUBMITTING FROM ABROAD? If you *cannot* attend the event\, due to living abroad or some other obstacle\, we will send you a free book to thank you for your contribution\, as drinks are rather messy to post. You can choose your favourite title from our selection of four anthologies (one award-winning!)\, or any book by any of our authors. \nIMPORTANT: By submitting your work to Liars’ League you are giving us permission to add your email address to our mailing list – this means we can inform you of the winning stories and send updates\, links to our latest stories\, and competition and submission opportunities approximately monthly. If you want to be removed from our mailing list you can email us at any time with Unsubscribe in the subject line. We’ll never share your data with anyone else – promise. \nSubmission of your work also gives us permission to upload the text and an audio and video recording of your story (if successful) onto our website\, YouTube channel and podcast so that everyone can enjoy it. If this is an issue just email and we’re happy to discuss. \nAnd finally … \n1. Please submit no more than ONE story per theme. This is for reading-time reasons. \n2. Please don’t resubmit any story we have previously rejected unless we ask you to\, however much it has changed. \n3. Please don’t be discouraged. We really want to see your work – so send it in! For some further thoughts on what works for the League see this article by Liars’ League regular Niall Boyce
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-liars-league-looking-for-stories-about-being-down-out/
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SUMMARY:F - Stone's Throw Seeking LGBTQ+ Noir Tales
DESCRIPTION:Happy Pride Month! Rock and a Hard Place Press is a proud ally of the LGBTQ+ community\, and this month\, we want stories where the pride rainbow isn’t quite as bright. Queer characters (and queer people\, for that matter) put up with enough bullshit from homophobes and transphobes\, and this month we want noir tales where they turn the tables on the haters in fabulous and brutal ways. \nInterested in Submitting?\nStone’s Throw will open for submissions the first three days of every month\, from 12AM on the first through 12AM on the fourth (with some wiggle room here and there to account for the editors being human). We’re looking for all the same dark fiction\, crime\, and noir as our usual submissions\, but with a target length between 1\,000 and 2\,000 words\, and aligned with the monthly submissions prompt (see below). We’ll read through each story\, choose the one story that shines brightest\, and publish it online the following month\, paying $25 per accepted story. \nAfter a year\, we’ll collect all twelve stories into a Stone’s Throw Annual Anthology\, to be published alongside our other print issues. \nPLEASE NOTE — If you have been accepted within the calendar year for Stone’s Throw\, you are ineligible to submit again during that same calendar year. However\, we look forward to reading your submissions during our regular RHP Magazine open calls!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-stones-throw-seeking-lgbtq-noir-tales/
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SUMMARY:F - Adi Magazine Seeking Submissions n: Alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them
DESCRIPTION:Adi is thinking about alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We want examples from outside of the mainstream\, stories about practices\, ideas\, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic\, socio-cultural\, religious\, or imperial (colonial) powers. We privilege perspectives from the Global South\, always interested in how we might reorient our political universe towards those organic alliances\, intertwined liberation theologies\, grassroots movements\, and revolutionary philosophers. But we are also interested in the experiences of all marginalized peoples everywhere as they have explored alternative economies\, subversive strategies\, and surprising solidarities. Pieces could be based on historical events\, or could focus on imagined futures that subvert current empires. \nIn the words of James Baldwin\, “Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well\, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star\, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place\, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.” \nWhat realignments\, restorations\, revisions and resurrections might we uncover and foster with the stars aflame? \nPlease interpret this call expansively and imaginatively. Familiarize yourself with the range and spirit of our archives; Adi tends toward creative\, experimental approaches to political writing\, measuring the effects of policy through the intimate lives and experiences of people with a particular focus on those on the margins and in the Global South. We’ve previously published fiction on ghosts in a post-fossil fuel world; intervention through the eyes of a fugitive lion;  healthcare bureaucracy and restrictions on reproductive rights; the reimagination of the myth of the faceless woman; and a family’s decision on citizenship while facing an American apocalypse.  \nWe do not want dreary political agitprop. We love work that bends genres\, that embraces the absurd\, that excavates interior lives alongside external conflicts. Send us work that analyzes\, satirizes\, fabulizes\, and fantasizes\, that disturbs\, beguiles\, moves\, challenges\, surprises\, and ignites. \nSUBMISSION LIMIT: 5\,000 words.  One unpublished submission per author\, please.  \nFor short fiction\, up to 5\,000 words\, payment is $500. \nFor flash fiction\, under 1\,000 words\, payment is $200. \nTranslators: we’d love to hear from you\, too! If you have unpublished work from writers who fit the bill\, please get in touch. (If the story’s already been translated\, just go ahead and submit\, but if not\, feel free to email us with a blurb about the potential story and we’ll take it from there). \nAdi does not accept submissions generated with AI. 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-adi-magazine-seeking-submissions-n-alternative-political-visions-for-a-world-in-desperate-need-of-them/
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