{"id":3749,"date":"2024-01-07T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3749"},"modified":"2024-01-07T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T18:15:19","slug":"pfn-after-happy-hour-contest-theme-animals","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-after-happy-hour-contest-theme-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN &#8211; After Happy Hour Contest Theme: Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this year&#8217;s contest, we want submitters to go wild&#8211;or domesticated, or sentient, or whatever other form of beastly you&#8217;re feeling. In other words: we&#8217;re seeking work from any and all genres that involves non-human living creatures in some way, shape, or form.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions that fit the theme will include some kind of animal. Note that this doesn&#8217;t need to be a real animal. It can be a cryptid like a chupacabra, a hybrid made via genetic engineering, a robot pet, or some new species that you&#8217;ve made up. It also counts if it&#8217;s a human who becomes an animal&#8211;a Kafka-style transformation, for example, or a were-beast, Selkie, etc. The animal can be an image or metaphor, too, but we&#8217;re looking for more than a passing mention of birds singing from the trees. The animal should be integral to the story in some way, be that as a character, a plot point, or a central theme.<\/p>\n<p>Each $10 entry can be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 prose work of 1,000 words or longer<\/li>\n<li>up to 3 individual poems sent in a single document<\/li>\n<li>up to 3 flash or micro prose pieces in a single document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Numbers update 1\/1:\u00a0<\/strong>At the halfway point of the contest, we&#8217;ve received 67 entries and the prize pool is currently at $320.<\/p>\n<p><u>Poetry<\/u>: Send up to 3 individual poems, no line or word limits.<\/p>\n<p><u>Fiction<\/u>: Send a single short story or up to 3 flash or micro pieces (fewer than 1,000 words each) in a single document. We have no hard word count limits, and welcome stories in that hard-to-publish 5,000-10,000 word length that justify their real estate. That said, this is a print issue, so we won&#8217;t be able to publish anything that&#8217;s a true novella length.<\/p>\n<p><u>Creative non-fiction<\/u>: Send a single piece of 1,000 words or longer, or up to 3 flash or micro pieces (fewer than 1,000 words each) in a single document. We are specifically looking for lyric or narrative non-fiction, not scholarly essays (though if you\u2019re using the tropes of scholarly essays within the context of a creative essay, that we do want to see).<\/p>\n<p><u>Hybrid\/Cross-Genre<\/u>: Yes, please. Follow whichever of the above guidelines makes the most sense for your work.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>Prize Info<\/u>:<br \/>\nThe winners and honorable mentions for this contest will receive a percentage of the total entry fees paid (including purchases of\u00a0<em>After Happy Hour\u00a0<\/em>print issues):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 3 \u201cranked winners\u201d will split 30%.<\/li>\n<li>Up to 3 honorable mentions will split 15%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How this will look in practice will depend on the work we receive. Possible scenarios:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three 1st place winners, one each in fiction, poetry, and CNF, who each get 10%; three honorable mentions, one in each category, that get 5%<\/li>\n<li>Two 1st place winners, one each in poetry and prose, who each get 15%; two honorable mentions, one in each category, that get 7.5%<\/li>\n<li>Overall 1st (20%) and 2nd (10%) place, plus 1-3 overall honorable mentions<\/li>\n<li>A single Grand Prize winner who walks away with the whole 30%, plus 1-3 overall honorable mentions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The more submissions we get, the more winners and honorable mentions we&#8217;re likely to award. All submitted works will also be considered for publication in the issue. If we publish your work and you don\u2019t win a prize, you\u2019ll get $10 (basically you\u2019ll get your entry fee back) and 2 copies of the print issue.<\/p>\n<p><u>General Guidelines<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please include a brief (100 words max) 3rd-person bio with your submission.<\/li>\n<li>To limit editor bias, we read all submissions anonymously. To this end, we ask submitters to remove their name and contact information from the document before submitting it.<\/li>\n<li>Use standard manuscript format (11- or 12-point font, standard margins\/spacing). We won\u2019t reject you for weird spacing or a bad font (probably), but following this standard makes things easier to read, and that makes the editors happy. Poets\/experimental prose writers have more liberty here if the non-standard formatting is used for stylistic reasons. Straightforward prose writers have no excuse.<\/li>\n<li>We accept submissions only through Submittable. Submissions sent to our e-mail will be deleted unread.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple submissions are allowed, but each submission must be accompanied by its own $10 submission fee.<\/li>\n<li>Simultaneous submissions are accepted for the contest. However, your entry fee will not be returned if the piece is accepted elsewhere and you need to withdraw it.<\/li>\n<li>Previously published work is not accepted for the contest. We are looking for new, unpublished stories for this issue.<\/li>\n<li>If you need to withdraw a longer prose piece, or an entire packet of poems or flash prose, you can choose the \u201cwithdraw\u201d option on Submittable. To withdraw a single poem or flash piece from a packet, you can message us through Submittable or e-mail us (afterhappyhour [at] gmail [dot] com).<\/li>\n<li>Accepted submissions may be edited for grammar. All changes will be sent to the author for approval before publication.<\/li>\n<li>We acquire first publishing rights and electronic archive rights. All other rights are retained by the author. Following the work\u2019s publication in After Happy Hour, you can re-publish and anthologize your work as you see fit. Content can be removed from the website on request, but cannot be removed from the issue in which it was published.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this year&#8217;s contest, we want submitters to go wild&#8211;or domesticated, or sentient, or whatever other form of beastly you&#8217;re feeling. 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