CALLIHOO Newsletter ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 7 No. 15 Editor: Julia West August 31, 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Web page: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS Ken Rand's "The Nine Billion Names of Arthur C. Clarke" remains on Alexandria Digital Literature's top ten bestseller list for 1999, coming in #7 in August. DEADLINES Check out the CALLIHOO website, listed above, for more information on these contests, magazine issues, and anthologies. (Where it says "GLs in Vol. X No. Y," these are volume and issue of the CALLIHOO newsletter.) =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. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 36)] =Divas of Darkness= anthology, deadline 15 September 99 or when filled. [H by female writers, 750-3000 wds, pays 1/4 cent/wd. on pub., deadline 15 Sep or when filled, no E-mail subm. or sim sub. (GLs in Vol. 7, No. 8)] =Writers of the Future=, 4th quarter 1999, deadline 30 September 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)] =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 pub in =Pulp Eternity=. (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. (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. (GLs in Vol. 6 No. 44)] =Pulp Eternity= Volume 9: I Am Cat. Deadline 15 Dec 1999 or when filled. [SF cat stories, to 10,000 wds, pays 3 cents/wd. on pub. http://www.pulpeternity.com. (GLs in Vol. 7 No. 5)] =Starlight 3= anthology, deadline end of 1999. [SF/F, pays 7-1/2 cents/wd., no upper word limit. (GLs in Vol. 6, No. 38)] =Extremes: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth=, deadline 1 Jan 2000 or when filled. [Limited edition CD anthology, F/H outside USA, pays 1/22 of profits, lwpub@aol.com, http://www.dm.net/~bahwolf/extremes.htm. (GLs in Vol. 7 No. 10)] MARKET GUIDELINES =Anotherealm= [Quarterly webzine, spec fic, to 5000 wds, pays $5/story, E-mail subm pref.] Editor: Jean Goldstrom 287 Gano Avenue, Orange Park, FL, 32073 URL: http://anotherealm.com GL: http://www.anotherealm.com/submit/submit.html E-Mail: editor@anotherealm.com Online magazine of speculative fiction. FREQ: Quarterly. CIRC: 5.8K visitors/month. NEEDS: Short stories dealing with any subject under the speculative fiction umbrella ("science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, or anything that isn't slice-of-life or journalistic"). LENGTH: 5k wds max. GL: E-mail story in ASCII format (preferred). Postal mail using standard ms format also accepted, include SASE. Send only one submission at a time, previously published material considered on a case-by-case basis. RIGHTS: First Internet Rights. Work is displayed for approximately three months. PAYS: $5/story. RT: 2 months. TIP: "What we... want is speculative fiction...that makes us think, laugh, cry, remember it, and scream for more!" [Inklings, 21 Jul 99] =Spellbound= [Quarterly print mag, F for 9-14 yr. olds, themed, to 2500 wds, pays $5 on pub, E-mail subm.] Fiction Editor: Raechel Henderson spellbound@eggplant-productions.com =Spellbound= is a quarterly publication of fantasy short stories and poems aimed at 9-14 year olds. Each issue will have a creature of the issue and a sort of holiday theme. The first issue will be released in October, and have a Halloween theme. The next issue, released in December, will have a winter theme. Please remember that our readers are children aged 9-14. Gore and adult situations are simply not a good idea. Humor, mild chills and thrills, gross stuff and thoughtful insights into supernatural creatures are more in line with what we are seeking. Poetry Guidelines Poetry Editor: Marcie Tentchoff We are looking for short poems, no longer than 36 lines *maximum*, dealing with fantasy creatures and settings, with a leaning towards the seasonal theme of the issue. In the case of this first issue, that will mean creatures of the night and Halloween type spooky stuff. We will gladly read either free verse or traditionally rhyming poetry, but we are not interested in poems which toss masses of meaningless and conflicting imagery at the reader, in the hope that he or she will be able to make some sense out of the muddled result. We expect rhymes and meter in traditional poetry to be neither forced nor strained. Likewise, all poetry, even free verse, should flow well and have a musical quality. Send poetry submissions to poembound@eggplant-productions.com Poetry will pay $5 and 2 copies. Spellbound Fiction Guidelines: Fiction Editor: Raechel Henderson Word limit = 2,500 Payment = $5 + 2 contributor copies We're looking for stories involving magic, myth, legend and adventure in a fantasy setting. We're especially interested in young protagonists and showing girls in a "heroic" role are welcome. Please send fiction submissions to spellbound@eggplant-productions.com. Send submissions in the body of the e-mail. All payment is upon publication for FNASR. Note: the feature creature for the first issue will be the werewolf, but please do not limit yourself to that creature as a topic [sff.publishing.market-reports, 25 Aug 99] =The Urbanite: Surreal & Lively & Bizarre= [Print mag, H/spec/surreal to 3000 wds, pays 2-3 cents/wd, no sim subs or E-mail subs] Mark McLaughlin, Editor Urban Legend Press PO Box 4737 Davenport IA 52808 http://members.tripod.com/theurbanite/ No E-mail subm. $5.00 single issue, $13.50 three-issue subscription, payable to: (Please make check out to Urban Legend Press) (No online guidelines, nor are they available by E-mail. Send a SASE to above address for current themes and guidelines) "Here at =The Urbanite=, we laugh at trends and genre limitations. We have theme issues, but those themes are very general. Most magazines tighten their guidelines as they progress -- but that only encourages template writing. Such is not the case with =The Urbanite=." "We encourage experimentation and diversity. We've even discarded the requirement that submissions must be set in an urban environment. Do remember, though, that we publish speculative/surreal fiction. We receive a huge amount [sic] of inappropriate submissions -- kid's stories, porn, sloppy gore, war stories, cowboy epics, etc." Fiction Showcase online: "Every couple months, a new story will appear in the Fiction Showcase [at the website], so look in every now and then." Pays $25. Currently reading submissions for two future issues: No. 12, The Zodiac Issue: "No. 12 will include Jo Fletcher as the Featured Poet. As noted above, we have selected a Featured Poet, but we are still looking for more poems, and of course, we need plenty of stories, too. Submissions should concern some aspect of the Zodiac or any of its signs." No. 13, The All Horror Issue: "We want to see horror stories with strong characters and concepts -- no cliches!" To 3000 words (fiction), pays 2-3 cents/word; to 2 pages (poetry), $10. Submit no more than one story or three poems at a time. No simultaneous submissions; query first regarding reprints. ALL submissions must be by snail mail! [DarkEcho, 27 May 99 and http://members.tripod.com/ theurbanite/order.html] MARKET INFORMATION =Amazing= On the =Amazing= website, at http://www.wizards.com/amazing/ writers_hold.asp, the following information appears: "We are always honored when authors choose us to consider their work for publication. However, at this time, we are unable to consider unsolicited manuscripts or story ideas, due to a backlog of material. We are receiving a growing number of unsolicited manuscripts on an almost daily basis. The pile just keeps getting bigger, and we just keeping falling farther behind. "We appreciate the time and effort it takes to craft a story and ready it for publication. For that reason, we will return stories unread (or make return replies) in short order. We want authors to be able to submit their work elsewhere, rather than let it sit here for the months it is going to take us to get caught up. We understand how valuable an author's time is, as well as ours, and do not wish to hold onto material that might be sold to another publication. "We do not know exactly when we will be able to start taking unsolicited material again, but it will be at least a few months from now. Watch for an announcement on our website. In the meantime, thanks for thinking of us!" [Editor's note: Since apparently the new =Amazing= contract is pretty bad for writers, it's just as well they're not taking submissions. We don't want to submit anything to them until they change that contract!] =The Firefly= In a recent letter to a writer on sff.net, Bobbi Sinha-Morey, the editor of =The Firefly=, hinted that she loves mythology. [sff.writing.response-times, 27 Aug 99] =Maelstrom SF= Dave Felts, Editor/publisher of =Maelstrom Speculative Fiction=, gives a new address for submissions and all other correspondence: Maelstrom SF Dave Felts, editor 3645 Chatham Dr. Palm Harbor, FL 34684 [sff.writing.response-times, 30 Aug 99] =Outside= In a letter to a writer on sff.net, editor John Cullen of =Outside= mentioned that they're doing an anthology soon. [sff.writing.response-times, 31 Aug 99] =Pulp Eternity= In a letter to a writer on sff.net, editor Steve Algieri of =Pulp Eternity= says he has enough fantasy stories for the "I Am Cat" issue, and needs more of the other stuff. [sff.writing.response-times, 31 Aug 99] =The Reaper= A writer on sff.net got a letter from the magazine =The Reaper=, saying it has folded. The main reason: "The failure to increase the subscriber base." [sff.writing.response-times, 26 Aug 99] ==End of the CALLIHOO newsletter for 31 August 1999==