CALLIHOO Newsletter ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 6 No. 48 Editor: Julia West May 11, 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Web page: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS Clarification and correction on the story Carol Paton sold. "Moon Mistic" will appear in =Pulp Eternity='s Eternity Unbound issue (not the Women of Empowerment, as I said a few issues ago). Congratulations again to Carol! DEADLINES Let me know if you need more information on the contests, anthologies or magazines listed below. A good place to check is the CALLIHOO website, listed above. ** Folks, the "deadlines" list is getting way too huge! With the newsletter issues all online now, I think I'm going to drop most of the information in the next issue--unless I hear major dissenting votes. =Inscriptions= Dreaming Contest, deadline 28 May 1999. [Stories and poems about dreaming, to 3000 wds, no entry fee, E-mail subm, prizes $25 and publication in =Inscriptions=. MaidenFate@ aol.com with the subject heading "Dreaming Contest." (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 48)] =Dark Annie= issue #3, The Modern Myth, open 1 March to 31 May 1999. [Stories of any genre relating to the myths we share with our children, to 5,000 wds, E-mail subm okay at darkannie@ aol.com, Editors: Eva Harstein and Shikhar Dixit, P.O. Box 566, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816, http://members.aol.com/ darkannie/. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 41)] 41st Annual Utah Original Writing Competition, opens 10 May, deadline (postmarked) 25 June 1999. [Utah residents only. 4 novel-length categories, $1000 1st prize, $750 2nd; 3 short length categories, $300 1st, $200 2nd. No entry fee. Must have submission card (see http://WWW.CE.EX.STATE.UT.US/arts/ programs/subcard.html). Utah Arts Council, 617 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84102. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 46)] =Writers of the Future=, 3rd quarter 1999, deadline 30 June 1999. [$1000 first, $750 2nd, $500 3rd place. No entry fee. L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, P.O. Box 1630-JBW, Los Angeles, CA 90078. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 10)] =Hideous Progeny=, British theme anthology, deadline 30 June 1999. [What if Frankenstein succeeded? 1500-5000 words, pays L15/1000 wds. Brian Willis, editor, RazorBlade Press, 27 Cwrt Sart, Briton Ferry, Neath SA11 2ST UK, http://fugazi.net/razor. (Gls in Vol. 6 No. 48)] =Pulp Eternity= Volume 6: Women of Empowerment. Deadline 1 July 1999 or when it's filled. [Female viewpoint to 10,000 wds, but most under 5000, pays 3 cents/wd. on pub. Steve Algieri, Senior Editor, PO Box 930068, Norcross, GA 30003, E-mail: eternityol@aol.com; http://www.pulpeternity.com. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 38)] =A Twist of the Knife= anthology, received deadline 1 July 1999 [H/DF about traditional monsters with a twist, to 5000 wds, pays $10, reprints and sim subs okay, e-mail subm preferred, text in the body of an e-mail to kirkwood@nucleus.com, snail-mail to J. Kirkwood, Apt 1, 17728 - 81 Avenue NW, Edmonton AB T5T 1M1, Canada. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 35) ] The Calvino Prize, deadline 15 July 1999. [$10 reading fee, prizes $1,000 each and publication for spec fic novel, novella, short story. May enter once in each category. Vermont College Summer Writer's Conference, Calvino Prize, 45 State St, Montpelier,Vt. 05602, http://www.invisiblecitiespress.com/ calvino.htm. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 48)] =Dark Annie= issue #4, Apocalypse, open May 1 to July 31, 1999. [Stories of any genre relating to myths, realities, speculations or anything else about THE END, be it the end of a culture, the world, or the universe, to 5,000 wds, E-mail subm okay at darkannie@aol.com, Editors: Eva Harstein and Shikhar Dixit, P.O. Box 566, East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816, http://members. aol.com/darkannie/. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 41)] =Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power & Abundance= anthology, deadline 31 July 1999. [SF/F/H to 5000 words, fat people in positive roles, 3-5 cents/wd., no E-mail subm., Mrs. Lee Martindale, Editor, Attn: Such A Pretty Face, c/o Rump Parliament, PO Box 865137, Plano, TX 75086-5137. (GLs in Vol. 6 No.30)] =Eternity Online= Halloween Horror Issue, deadline 1 August 1999. [scary stories, incl. H/dark F/dark SF, to 5000 wds. No reprints. 1/4 cent/wd. to $50. Send to eternityol@aol.com; put Halloween Issue in the subject line. Subm. not following guidelines returned unread. http://www.pulpeternity.com. Halloween Issue, PO Box 930068, Norcross, GA 30003. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 38)] ByLine contest, 1st chapter of a novel - Deadline August 5, 1999. [Opening chapter of unpublished novel. Mainstream or genre; adult or YA audience. Maximum 25 pages. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $70, $35, $20. Mail entries to: Contests, ByLine Magazine, PO Box 130596, Edmond, OK 73013. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 36)] =Pulp Eternity= Volume 7: Alternatives II/ Science Fiction. Deadline 1 September 1999 or when filled. [SF and alt. sexuality, to 10,000 wds, but most under 5000, pays 3 cents/wd. on pub. Steve Algieri, Senior Editor, PO Box 930068, Norcross, GA 30003, E-mail: eternityol@aol.com; http://www.pulpeternity.com. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 38)] ByLine Contest, genre fiction - Deadline September 4, 1999. [Short story to 5,000 wds, romance, sci-fi, confession, mystery, western, etc. No children's stories. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $30, $15. Mail entries to: Contests, ByLine Magazine, PO Box 130596, Edmond, OK 73013. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 36)] Technology: The Price We Pay Fiction Contest, deadline 1 October 1999. [Stories abt. technology, to 10,000 words, no entry fee, 1st prize $300 and publication in =Pulp Eternity=, subscribers unlimited entries, nonsub one entry, Steve Algieri, Eternity Press, Technology: The Price We Pay Fiction Contest, PO Box 930068, Norcross, GA 30003. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 38)] The Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Writing, deadline 15 December 1999. [SF/F by undergrad. students in college or university, 1,000-10,000 wds, 1st place $500, entry fee $5.00 per story, no limit to number of entries per person. Award Administrator Rick Wilber: Asimov Award, School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 44)] =PRISM international= 15th Annual Short Fiction Contest 1999, deadline 15 December 1999. [Canadian contest, $2,000C 1st prize, 5 $200 runners-up (+pmt for pub), $20 1st entry fee, $5 all others, max. 25 pp. Creative Writing Program, University of British Columbia, Buch E 462 - 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada. V6T 1Z1. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 44)] =Pulp Eternity= Volume 8: I Am Cat. Deadline 15 Dec 1999 or when filled. [SF cat stories, to 5000 wds, pays 3 cents/wd. on pub. Steve Algieri, Senior Editor, PO Box 930068, Norcross, GA 30003, E-mail: eternityol@aol.com; http://www. pulpeternity.com. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 38)] =Starlight 3= anthology, deadline end of 1999. [SF/F, pays 7-1/2 cents/wd., no upper word limit, Starlight 3 c/o Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 38)] ANTHOLOGIES =Hideous Progeny= [British antho, 1500-5000 wds, deadline 30 June 99, pays L15/1000 wds] Brian Willis, editor RazorBlade Press, 27 Cwrt Sart, Briton Ferry, Neath SA11 2ST UK. =Hideous Progeny= is a new theme antho to be published 9/99. "What if Frankenstein succeeded? What would the world have become if Victor Frankenstein's attempt to conquer death had not gone awry?" See http://fugazi.net/razor or send SAE + IRC for GLs. Pays L15 per 1k words. 1,500-5,000 words. Deadline: end of June 1999. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Oktobyr '99= [British H antho, to 5000 wds, payment info not given] Simon Bestwick, editor 58 Stockport Rd., Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 7SG UK. New horror anthology =Oktobyr '99= "welcomes submissions of any length...[but space] for tales over 5k words [is] limited... A Halloween setting would be great but not essential. I'm looking for superb H...from traditional to splatterpunk, slipstream to gothic-erotic. Nothing is off limits in...subject matter and content, but please send only your best work. Multiple subs are fine." Publisher and pay not listed. [Deadline not given, either] [Speculations Online Update 12] CONTESTS =The Calvino Prize= [Contest, deadline 15 July 1999, $10 reading fee, prizes $1,000 each and publication for spec fic novel, novella, short story] The Calvino Prize for new writing in speculative/fabulist fiction. In honor of Italo Calvino [1923-1985] "Literature is a search for the book hidden in the distance that alters the value and meaning of the known books; It is a pull toward the new apocryphal text still to be rediscovered or invented." Italo Calvino, =Literature As Projection Of Desire= The Calvino Prize was established In order to encourage new writing with a speculative, fabulist, mythic, or fantastic content which breaks through genre limitations. As Calvino wrote: "I leave it to the critics the task of placing my novels and stories within (or outside) some classification of territory. For me the main thing in a narrative is not the explanation of an extraordinary event but the order of things that this extraordinary event produces in itself and around it; the pattern, the symmetry, the network of Images deposited around it, as in the formation of a crystal". [Definitions of Territory: Fantasy, In =The Uses of Literature=] Prizes will be awarded in 3 categories: short story, novella, and novel. Each category winner will receive a $1,000 award as well as publication of their prize-winning work. Editor and author, Nicola Griffith, a winner of the Nebula Award, the James Tiptree Award, and the World Fantasy Award, will judge the 1999 Prize. This year's Calvino Prize will be presented through a grant from Invisible Cities Press to the Vermont College Post-Graduate Writer's Conference to be held In Montpelier, VT. in August, 1999. CALVINO PRIZE ENTRY GUIDELINES Please use the following guidelines for entry submissions: ENTRY DEADLINE: JULY 15th, 1999 * Only previously unpublished manuscripts are eligible. * Entries should be typed, double spaced, single side of page only. * Your name and address should appear in the upper right corner of the first page. Your name should also be on each subsequent page. * The approximate word count should be placed In the upper left corner of the first page. * Be sure that the title and a page number appear an every page. * You may enter one manuscript for each category (short fiction, novella, novel]. * If you want your manuscript returned, include an appropriately sized, self addressed, stamped envelope*. Manuscripts without a proper SASE will not be returned. * A reader's fee of $10 for each manuscript entered is required. Make checks payable to: Vermont College Summer Writer's Conference and note "Calvino Prize". Send your entry to: Calvino Prize, 45 State St, Montpelier,Vt. 05602 [http://www.invisiblecitiespress.com/calvino.htm] =Inscriptions Dreaming Contest= [Stories and poems about dreaming, deadline 28 May 1999. To 3000 wds, no entry fee, E-mail subm, prizes $25 and publication in =Inscriptions=.] THEME: Dreams GUIDELINES: Write a short story or poem about dreams, dreaming or the Dream Realm. Story entries should be less than 3,000 words. Please put a space between every paragraph and do not use indents. Poems can be any length, any form. There is no entry fee to enter the Dreaming Contest. All entries must be in English, but the writer can live anywhere in the world. Previously published works are acceptable. Paste your entries directly into an e-mail and send to MaidenFate@aol.com with the subject heading "Dreaming Contest." Include your real name, mailing address and e-mail address with each entry. One short story or poem per e-mail, please. Entries without complete author information or sent in other formats will be disqualified. You may enter as often as you like. Each entry will be acknowledged, once received by the Inscriptions staff. If you do not receive confirmation within 48 hours, please resend your entry. PRIZES: First Place/Poetry - $25 and publication in Inscriptions. First Place/Short Story - $25 and publication in Inscriptions. Deadline for all entries is 5 p.m. EST May 28, 1999. Winners will be announced in the June 12th issue of Inscriptions. Anyone interested in judging future monthly contests should contact MaidenFate@aol.com with the subject heading "Inscriptions." [http://come.to/Inscriptions/] MARKET GUIDELINES =Terra Incognita= [Quarterly print mag, SF abt. Earth to 15,000 wds. Pays 3 cents/wd.] Editor: Mr. Jan Berrien Berends Terra Incognita. 52 Windermere Avenue #3, Lansdowne PA 19050-1812 http://www.voicenet.com/~incognit/index.html http://www.voicenet.com/~incognit/submissions/index.html E-mail: terraincognita@writeme.com Full-sized, 64pp, quarterly science fiction magazine. Publishes a broad range of science-fiction stories and poetry and non-fiction articles and includes an extensive section of reviews of written science fiction works. Common theme: Earth, both today and in the future. What will our Earth be like in five years? five hundred? five billion? What sorts of technologies are likely to arise, and what might be their personal, social, and ecological impacts--both positive and negative? Will we humans march nobly into the future, or do we face apocalypse at every turn? And how will our social systems evolve and change? CIRC: ~1K subscribers. ~1500 bookstore sales. NEEDS: Science-fiction short stories up to 15,000 wds. No sword & sorcery, high fantasy, horror, alternative history, formula sf, space opera. Should be Earth-based. Here's some of the stuff we like: cybertechnology, apocalypse and post-apocalypse settings, sociological extrapolations and alternative social systems, gender and race issues, biotechnology, information technology, human evolution, alien visitors, ecological disasters or triumphs, oceanography and the settlement of the ocean, non-Western cultures in the future, the natural and applied sciences; just make it fit our theme. NO electronic or simultaneous submissions. NON-FICTION: Query first! We do not accept unsolicited submissions. (1) Book and story reviews. We like both in-depth, critical essays and sharp, short reviews. We try to publish several diverging reviews of the same book together, so that our readers can find differing perspectives in one place. We're not interested in reviews of any media other than print. (2)Science fiction-related essays and articles. Remember: the best way to avoid an instant "No" is to make sure that your idea relates to our theme. Right now, we'd really like to see skillfully written articles exploring the social-science (sociology, anthropology, politics, etc.) aspect of the genre. (3) Science articles. Intelligently written and well-researched science articles are most welcome--especially if they explore the potential impacts (positive or negative or, preferably, both) of new technologies or the possible nature of science and technology in the future. We are also very interested in articles which discuss the philosophy of science. Some areas of science which we find intriguing are: biology, neurobiology, and cognitive science; cybertechnology; computers and other information technologies; experimental physics. Please! Don't get too technical. We'd never ask you to sacrifice truth or complexity, but do try to make your articles accessible to readers with all levels of technical knowledge. POETRY: =Terra Incognita= is a forum for Earth-based fiction, and all poetry must therefore be set on Earth. Abstract poetry is acceptable, but must be recognizably Earth based. We want speculative poetry with not only good, creative ideas, but also beautiful language. We like words that hold our attention as much as the subject does. All styles and lengths accepted. PAY: FNASR. OP. $0.03/wd for stories and articles. $5-$25 for book reviews. $5 flat fee for poetry and cartoons. First Reproduction Rights and Advertising and Promotion Rights for artwork. Flexible scale for artwork based on the size of the piece. All contributors receive two extra copies of the issue in which their contribution appears. All rights revert to the author upon publication. RT: 3-4 mos. We will always explain why rejected manuscripts don't work for us. SAMPLE COPY: Send five dollars (six from outside the US), and we'll get a current copy in the mail. We encourage writers to email or send us an SASE for current guidelines. The web site is actually woefully out of date. It's a good place to see samples from issue one, but we feel that getting the print magazine published is worth more of our limited time. We hope to update the web site sometime this summer, but in the meantime, contact with us is the best method: e-mail or snail mail. TIPS: One of the biggest problems we see that gets a story instantly rejected is that the story doesn't belong in TI. By that I mean, stories that aren't Earth-based sf. For all our shouting about it, we still get a few manuscripts a week set in outer space or overrun with unicorns. When it comes to the actual stories, we see a lot of pieces that aren't stories. A strong, character-driven plot is what holds reader interest. This doesn't mean we're not interested in beautiful writing. In fact, we have a reputation for publishing some of the most stylistically adept science fiction out there. But at the center of each piece, something must happen, and it must happen to characters, characters who act in response to that something. Perhaps that's something of an oversimplification, but it's an interesting litmus test we sometimes recommend writers apply to their work. [Inklings, 28 Apr 99] =Twilight Showcase= [Monthly webzine, H 250-3000 wds, pays « cent/wd., no reprints, no sim subs, wants E-mail subm] Editor: Gary W. Conner strangeconcepts@rica.net http://home.rica.net/gconn Payment: 1/2 cent per word Rights Purchased: First Universal Web rights, exclusive to Twilight Showcase for one month. Length: 250-3000 words. Needs: "Twilight Showcase is currently accepting submissions for our first themed issue, Issue 8, which appears in July. The theme is Rock And Roll Horror. Submissions should deal in some way with the world of rock and roll, and should be horrific. We do not publish pornography; sex and erotica will be considered within the larger context of a horror story. We do not publish stories of child abuse or child endangerment. Please, no it-was-just-a-dream stories. For this issue, we are not taking previously published works. No simultaneous submissions will be read. Email to strangeconcepts@rica.net with the word "Submission" and your story title on the subject line. Send the manuscript in HTML, RTF, as a MSWord Version 6.0 or better attachment, or in the body of your email. [DarkEcho, 15 Apr 99] =Virtual Lobotomy= [Webzine, DF/H to 7,000 wds, pays 1 cent/wd. on pub. Wants E-mail subm.] Mr. Jon Hodges, editor 1959 N Peace Haven Rd #317, Winston-Salem, NC 27106-4850. virtual_lobotomy@blindside.net DF/H. To 7k words (query for longer). New webzine wants psychological horror that causes nightmares, second glances, or a rapid heart beat, not fiction about vampires, werewolves, strange bloodling creatures, or anything else fictitious, wants horror that can and does happen, stories about mankind and the atrocities that occur when the human psyche runs off the normal tracks of thought and action. Include cover letter with credits and your definition of horror, e-mail: virtual_lobotomy@blindside.net. Pays 1 cent/word OP. [Speculations Online Update 12] MARKET INFORMATION =Beyond= The magazine =Beyond= has been reported "closed/folded." [Speculations Online Update 12] =Bonedance Publications= As of April 15, 1999, Bonedance publications, the makers of =Shadow Feast Online= and the print anthology, =A Twist of the Knife=, will be changing locations. All snail-mail should be now sent to: J. Kirkwood, Apt 112 11041 - 109 Street Edmonton AB T5H 3C3 Canada. The e-mail address (kirkwood@nucleus.com) and the URL http://www.nucleus.com/~kirkwood/shadow.htm ) will NOT be changing at this time. Using them will insure the quickest response. [DarkEcho, 15 Apr 99] =Cemetery Dance= Horror/dark fantasy magazine Cemetery Dance editor Richard Chizmar describes what he's looking for: "It's simple really. I love all kinds of horror--traditional, contemporary, supernatural, psychological, all of it. And as for mystery and suspense...give me something with a dark edge to it. Scare me, make me uncomfortable, make me think, just don't bore me. Give me a story that moves along, that has narrative drive. If you're going for a more leisurely-paced tale, make sure there something to it. If you're just out exercising your writing muscles and the plot doesn't carry its weight, send the story somewhere else. First and foremost, I'm just a normal reader--I love all this dark stuff!" =Cemetery Dance= closes to submissions October 1 - March 1. It receives about 350-400 stories/month. http://www.horrornet.com/dance.htm. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Carpe Noctem= CN Publications (=Carpe Noctem= and =Bleeding Edge= magazines) has moved to 1093 E. Main St. #518, El Cajon, CA 92021; e-mail (unchanged), submit@carpenoctem.com; URL (unchanged), http://www.carpenoctem.com. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Dark Tome= =Dark Tome= (darktome@romanticnotions.com) "temporarily suspended...once a new issue is available, they will have an updated website." [Speculations Online Update 12] =Deadbolt Magazine= Deadbolt Magazine "[p]ays 1/4 cent/word for FNASR. 3500-4000 words max. Digest-sized, 96-page H/DF 'along the lines of King's Night Shift and McCammon's Blue World.'" deadboltmagazine@hotmail.com, http://home.att.net/~jimdouglaslay/index.htm [Speculations Online Update 12] =Dead Promises= The Chameleon Publishing civil war anthology has a name: =Dead Promises=. June Hubbard, editor, 3430 Salem Dr, Rochester Hills, MI 48306. DF/H. 500-7k words. Civil War ghost stories or ghost stories relating to that era, no unnecessary violence or gore. E-mail (queries only): WZTT67B@Prodigy.com. 3 cents/word. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Dragon Soup= A writer received the following editor's note: "=Dragon Soup Webzine= is no longer paying. I will be posting this in new submission GLs. I can no longer afford it, because I started a print magazine, which I want to promote, and to make paying. I am...making =Dragon Soup Webzine= small press and =Dragon Soup Quarterly= semi-pro." [Speculations Online Update 12] =Etoiles Vives= From Andre-Francois Ruaud (aeff@easynet.fr): "I'm the editor of a small French publishing house, Etoiles Vives (a name meaning 'living stars'), which has published in its two years of existence about 20 books of F/SF--novels, collections, anthologies (both by French or by foreign writers). We have a rather low circulation (between 1000 and 2000 copies), but our books are easily available in all the main bookshops of France. I'm currently preparing a steampunk/gaslight anthology (for the end of next year), as well as a 'return of the dinosaurs' one (deadline in September). I'm also editor of the 'Etoiles vives' book-magazine (6 issues so far), for which I like to publish stories of SF of a light mood, sense of wonder, adventure, strong sense of humanity...I accept subs for all this (including by mail: texts to be read in Word 5 for Mac or RTF format). We pay the equivalent of $100 per story, rights for one publication only." Query about e-mail subs. [Speculations Online Update 12] =North of Eternity II anthology= North of Infinity II -- Mosaic Press, PO Box 342, Station A, Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6H2 Canada. SF. 2k-10k words. From any timespace past or future in any universal locale the story is to realize the trepidation, fear or terror that 'people' experience at a crisis or social/historical turning point. Ideally this apprehension reflects the current uncertainty with regards to the new millennium and its prophecies and revelations. Send stories in competition format. 1.5 cents (Can)/word. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Out of the Shadows and Into the Night anthology= Some writers report antho =Out of the Shadows & Into the Night= was canceled by the publisher, Design Image Group (http://www. designimagegroup.com). [Speculations Online Update 12] =The Plastic Smile anthology= =Dr. Knife and Other Inhuman Beings= (formerly titled =The Plastic Smile=) is full and closed. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Skin and Bones= New H/gothic/erotic webzine =skin and bones= (Jamie Wasserman, editor; editor@skinandbones.net; http://www.skinandbones.net) pays an "honorarium of $10." [Speculations Online Update 12] =Space and Time= =Space & Time= pays "1 cent/word ($5 minimum) for FNASR with a non-exclusive option on subsidiary rights, + copies under 10K. 'Normally we pay on acceptance; because of our current cash-flow problems, though, we probably can't issue checks until after #91 comes out.' Buying VERY selectively for #91. S&T is a 48-page, full-size magazine, with laminated color cover and a circ. of about 2,000. It's biannual and issue #89 (Spring 99) is now available with #90 due in July. 'We publish supernatural H, hard SF, [S&S], and our favorite: that-which-defies-categorization. If you're not sure your MS is right for us, send it in and let us decide." Gerard Daniel Houarner is fiction editor. Queries only, oddist55@aol.com; http://www.bway.net/~natalia/space&time.html [Speculations Online Update 12] =Speculations= No, Speculations hasn't moved. But the Post Office wants them to add something to their address, so as of now, the official, correct address for Speculations is: PMB 400, 1111 West El Camino Real #109, Sunnyvale, CA 94087-1057 Letters addressed to anyone except Speculations, Denise Lee, or Kent Brewster at that address will be bounced as of mid-October with an "addressee not known" sticker. So please, use the address as above, to the stated addressees (and advertise the change). [Speculations Online Update 12] =Stygian Vortex Publications= If you've contacted Stygian Vortex Publications editor/publisher Glenda Woodrum "in the past month" or so, please re-contact her "as she accidentally deleted her message boxes and has lost everyone's address." A writer's query to Ms. Woodrum received the following response: "Stygian Vortex isn't going online...SVP is not publishing right now...The magazine that is going online is called genrEZONE [http://www.genrezone.com]. It is a separate entity from SVP. I am transferring some of the unpublished material from SVP, as well as some of the stories we published many years ago by special arrangement with the authors because the print-runs at the time were miniscule so few people saw the great stuff we ran then." [Speculations Online Update 12] =Three-Lobed Burning Eye= Webzine =Three-Lobed Burning Eye= has changed its URL and E-mail addresses: They are now at http://www.owlsoup.com/3LBE and asfuller@owlsoup.com [DarkEcho, 15 Apr 99] =Weird Stories= As of issue #36 Weird Stories [Fading Shadows, Inc.] has been canceled. [Speculations Online Update 12] =Wicked Mystic= publisher/editor Andre Scheluchin announced that his magazine, Wicked Mystic, is ceasing publication. Scheluchin has, he said, "tried to tie up all loose ends with the publication but if anyone still has any 'issues' they can email me at wickedmyst@aol.com." [DarkEcho, 29 Apr 99] =The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror= From Ellen Datlow: "I co-edit the World Fantasy Award winning anthology series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press) with Terri Windling. The twelfth annual collection will be out in July 1999. We are now reading for the thirteenth. This will include all material published in the year 1999. "I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech SF horror, psychological horror or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published during the year 1999. The...deadline for stories is December 15th 1999. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late to be considered for 1999. If a magazine you edit will be coming out by December 31st 1999 you can send me galleys or mss so that I can judge the stories in time. The sooner I get the material the better. "There is a section in front of the book that covers 'the year in horror,' and 'the year in fantasy.' These include mention of magazines and publishing news concerning the H and F fields, novels we've read and liked, and in my section, 'odds and ends'--material that doesn't fit anywhere else but that I feel might interest the H reader (like trading cards, strange nonfiction titles, art books, etc). But I have to be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for this section is January 30th, 1999. "When sending me material please put YEAR'S BEST HORROR on the envelope. Ellen Datlow, 48 Eighth Avenue, Suite 405, New York, NY 10014. "Terri Windling's subs should be sent to: The Year's Best Fantasy, c/o Richard and Mardelle Kunz, 2509 N. Campbell #402, Tucson, AZ 85719-3304." "She covers fantasy and I cover horror. If you consider something both, send to each of us. We do not confer on our choices. "I do not want to receive MSs from authors of stories from venues that it's likely I already receive regularly (like =Interzone=, =The Third Alternative=, =Peeping Tom=, etc.) or from anthologies, unless I don't have that anthology." [Speculations Online Update 12] =XOddity= Editors of =Xoddity=, Carol McLeod and Cathy Strachan, report, "We're... caught up [to] Sept. and only have about 100 mss left...[Issues are filled through 9/00]...we may...go monthly if we can get the timing right. We desperately need artists...Our [7/98] issue has just shipped and [9/98, 11/98,] and [1/99] issues will probably come out within weeks of each other...and all before the end of March." [Speculations Online Update 12] ==End of CALLIHOO newsletter for 11 May 1999==