CALLIHOO NEWSLETTER Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Volume 12 Number 3 10 April 2008 Website: http://www.callihoo.net IN THIS ISSUE News Paul Genesse's book release party Deadlines Anthologies Lace and Blade Contests CONduit Fiction Contests Market Guidelines Futurismic Strange Horizons Weird Tales Zoetrope: All-Story DEADLINES Where it says "GLs in Vol. X No. Y," these are volume and issue of the CALLIHOO newsletter. The Thirteenth Annual PARSEC Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Contest Deadline 15 April 2008 [Contest, unpub writers only, SF/F/H to 3500 wds. 1st prize $200; may have 2nd prize $100 and 3rd prize $50. No entry fee. No reprints. Theme 'metallic feathers.' E-subs only by request. Winner printed in Confluence 2008 program book. GLs in Vol. 12 No. 1] CONduit Fiction Contests Novella deadline 30 Apr 2008 Flash and short deadline 15 May 2008 [Contest, sf/f/h/anime/manga. Prizes TBA. Flash to 1500 wds, short 1500-5000 wds, novella 5k-50k wds. Amateur and professional categories. No entry fee. E-subs and mult subs okay. No reprints. GLs in Vol. 12 No. 3] Sword & Sorceress 23 Reading 19 April to 16 May 2008 [Print antho, s&s with strong female protag to 9k wds, pays 5 cents/wd. No sim or mult subs. RT 1 wk. GLs in Vol. 12 No. 2] The Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest Deadline 1 June 2008 [Contest, SF to 15k wds., $5,000 1st, $2,000 2nd, $1,000 3rd prize. No entry fee. No reprints or sim subs. E-subs only. GLs in Vol. 12 No. 1] Lace and Blade Deadline 1 August 2008 [Print antho, romantic f, all lengths. Pays 2 cents/wd. advance. E-subs okay. No reprints. GLs in Vol. 12 No. 3] NEWS THERE WILL BE DRAGONS! . . . at Paul Genesse's book release party, Saturday, May 10 from 3-9 PM, the day before he leaves for his book tour. This party is a thank you for all of the wonderful support that he has received over the years, and to celebrate the release of =The Golden Cord=, Book One of the Iron Dragon Series, releasing April 16 from Five Star Books. Please bring your friends and family, kids welcome. Check out the art gallery featuring over 70 fantasy art prints, have some food, and be one of the first people to get the book: $20 for one beautiful hardcover and only $15 for each additional. Free posters and bookmarks for everyone! If you can't attend please send him your mailing address and he'll send you a free 11x17 inch poster and a few bookmarks. RSVP via email: pgenesse@msn.com by April 27 and let him know how many are coming and how many books you want. WHERE WILL THE DRAGONS BE? The House of Genesse (Paul and Tam's house) 9543 South 4240 West South Jordan, UT 84095 801-282-5393 Visit www.paulgenesse.com to read chapter one. Link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Cord-Book-Iron-Dragon/dp/1594146594/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207243229&sr=8-1 Paul says, "The release of my first novel is such a huge moment for me. Thank you for your support. I truly appreciate it and hope to see you all soon. If you can't make the party, please come to the signing at the Sugarhouse Barnes and Noble on June 6, or visit me during my book tour. "Please forward this to your friends, post on your blogs and call your local libraries and ask them to order a copy. If you call your library in the next week I will be forever grateful. (big smile)" ANTHOLOGIES Lace and Blade 2 [Print antho, romantic f, all lengths. Pays 2 cents/wd. advance. Deadline 1 Aug 08. E-subs okay. No reprints.] Lace and Blade 2 will be open for submissions. Send me your most delicious stories. Lace and Blade 2 Guidelines This is the second volume of elegant, sensual, romantic fantasy, emphasizing sharp verbal repartee as much as sharp pointed weapons, rapier rather than broadsword. Lace at the wrists, perfume, and poetry; characters -- both men and women -- with vibrant personalities, complex, dashing, and very sexy. I'm particularly interested in stories that have magic and action, but in which conflict is resolved not by violence but by insight, creativity, and compassion. I'd love to see "win-win" endings, sense-of-wonder, plot twists and turnabout. Alternate sexuality is welcome; eroticism a definite plus; exotic, non-Western European settings also encouraged. Please read the first volume to see what I'm looking for. Stories must be original and previously unpublished; rights purchased are first English language rights and exclusive electronic rights for one year; 12 months after publication, you are free to sell to other markets. Deadline: August 1, 2008 Length: No maximum, although longer stories must be extraordinary. Formatting/submission: You may email me your story as .rtf attachment or mail a hard copy with a CD containing an .rtf file. Do not send a ..docx file as I cannot open them! If emailing, please format without headers or footers, 12 point Courier, italics instead of underlining, and put your full name, mailing address and email address on the upper left corner of the first page. I will determine final word count according to my standard formatting. deborahjross@gmail.com Deborah J. Ross 14775 Virginia Avenue Boulder Creek CA 95006 Payment: 2 cents per word as an advance against a pro rata share of royalties and foreign or other sales (per word, not per story). Imprint: Leda (Romantic Fantasy) from Norilana Books Release Date: Valentine's Day 2009 CONTESTS CONduit Fiction Contests [Contest, sf/f/h/anime/manga. Prizes TBA. Flash to 1500 wds, short 1500-5000 wds, novella 5k-50k wds. Amateur and professional categories. No entry fee. E-subs and mult subs okay. No reprints. Deadlines 30 Apr 08 novella, 15 May 08 flash and short.] There's still time to enter the CONduit XVIII fiction writing competition. The original deadlines are being extended. Here are the categories and new deadlines. Flash Fiction - up to 1500 words: May 15, 2008 Short Story - 1500 - 5000 words: May 15, 2008 Novella - 5000 to 50,000 words: April 30, 2008 Submissions can be submitted by postal or email. Mail one copy of your entry in standard manuscript format along with completed entry form to: Conduit XVIII Fiction Contest Attn: RGH P.O. Box 11745 Salt Lake City, Utah 84147-0745 Entries will not be returned unless accompanied by SASE with sufficient postage or IRC. Electronic submissions in standard formats such as Word, Open Office, plain text, rtf, PDF are accepted. Check with us before submitting if you're uncertain about format. Email submissions along with completed entry form to conduitfiction@gmail.com For complete contest details and entry form go to http://conduit.sfcon.org/contests.php and click on Details for further information For specific queries, email conduitfiction@gmail.com Rules Summary for all fiction submissions * Open to all writers * No entry fee * Amateur and Professional categories * Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Anime/Manga genres * Original work not based on copyrighted worlds or characters * No adult themes or excessively foul language * Standard manuscript format * Electronic submissions will be accepted * Please contact the contest coordinator before submitting electronically * All submissions must be accompanied by completed Official Entry Form All fiction contests: * The competition is open to any amateur or professional writer. * The entrant will be considered a professional if he has previously sold a story or has been awarded a prize of $50 or more in any short story competition. A person employed in the publishing industry, regardless of his job title or responsibilities, will be considered a professional for the scope of this competition. * The entry cannot be previously published. For purposes of the competition, published is defined as: having appeared in a publication, including zines and web sites. * The entry must be the original work of the author. * Writer must be at least 18 years of age or have the written permission of parent or guardian to enter. * The entrant must complete the Official Entry Form and sign the statement acknowledging the terms and conditions of the contest. * Membership in, attendance at CONduit XVIII is not required for submission. * There is no entry fee. Submission Guidelines * Submission must be in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror or Anime/Manga genre. Entries from other genres will be disqualified. * Multiple submissions are acceptable. Each submission must be accompanied by a signed Official Entry Form or reproduction of that form. Email address will constitute signature for electronic submissions. * Entry must be in standard manuscript format on white paper. No handwritten or dot matrix submissions will be accepted. Disk submissions will be accepted. Contact the contest coordinator at conduitfiction@gmail.com for details prior to making an electronic submission. Email submissions will be accepted as attachments only. * Title page of the story should contain only the title of the work. The name and contact information for the author must only appear on the Official Entry Form. * Pages in the body of the work must be numbered. * Submission must fit word requirement for category. Consult the contest coordinator for questions regarding the length of submission. * Submission must be the original work of the entrant. Author must complete an Official Entry Form before the manuscript will be considered. * Manuscripts for Star Wars, Star Trek or other already existing worlds will not be eligible. * Entrant must include an email address in order to receive acknowledgment that his submission has been received. * Entrant should retain a copy of his submission. Judging * The entries will go through preliminary judging immediately following the submission deadline. * Final judging will be held two weeks prior to the convention. * Decision of the judges is final. * Awards will be given for first, second, and third place in both amateur and professional categories. * Prizes TBA. Prizes are non-transferable. No more than one prize will be awarded for each ranking in each category. Not all prizes in all categories may be awarded, depending on entries. * Winners will be notified by mail and/or email one week prior to the beginning of CONduit XVIII . * Prizes will not be held beyond the closing day of CONduit XVIII, May 25, 2008. Unclaimed prizes will be forfeited unless prior arrangements are made with the contest coordinator. Terms and Conditions * By completing the Official Entry Form and submitting the manuscript to CONduit XVIII competition, the entrant agrees to all terms and conditions of the contest as outlined. * Entrant retains all copyright to the submission. * Entrant grants sfcon.org and CONduit XVIII the right to release the winner's name, likeness and biographical information for publicity purposes. * Entrant grants sfcon.org and CONduit XVIII one-time rights to reproduce, exhibit and/or present readings of the winning entries during the course of CONduit XVIII Science Fiction Weekend, May 23-25, 2008. * Entrant agrees to accept, without reservation, the decision of the judges. Judges' decision is final. * No entry will be considered without a signed Official Entry Form. * No submission will be returned without a self-addressed envelope sized for the manuscript and sufficient postage or IRC. * Judges will read every qualifying entry. Notes, comments and suggestions may be made available to entrants, time permitting. * sfcon.org and CONduit XVIII are not responsible for late or lost submissions. * Failure to meet the terms and conditions of this competition will result in disqualification of the entry. http://conduit.sfcon.org/contests_fictionrules.php MARKET GUIDELINES Futurismic [Webzine, near future SF to 15k wds. Pays $200 on accept. E-subs only (form). No reprints, sim or mult subs. RT 2-5 wks.] Futurismic re-opens to fiction submissions! Yes indeed--you enquired, cajoled and begged, and the day has finally arrived--Futurismic is open to fiction submissions once again! Chris East, our hard-working Fiction Editor, is a busy man - and with the submissions coming in he's going to be even more busy than usual. So please be considerate: read the entirety of the Guidelines page thoroughly--twice--and check your story is a good fit before clicking through to the submissions webform (linked from the Guidelines page). That way you save Chris time and save yourself from a rejection you didn't need to get, right? Right! Also, a few words on file formatting. Three words, actually, or rather two words and an acronym: RTF files only! The webform shouldn't let you upload anything else; if you manage to subvert the process, your submission will just be deleted anyway, so just convert in your favourite word processor package first. And finally - we will ONLY accept fiction submissions through the webform. All attempted submissions by regular email, comment fields, Twitter, psychic projection, good old-fashioned snail-mail or any other channels WILL BE IGNORED AND DELETED/ DESTROYED UNREAD AND UNREPLIED TO. OK, with all that out of the way, get to work! Do you think you can beat Leonard Richardson's 37-deep comments thread? Because that's the caliber of work we're looking for - and we're looking forward to your submissions! Paul Raven 05-04-2008 http://futurismic.com/2008/04/05/futurismic-re-opens-to-fiction- submissions/ FICTION GUIDELINES OVERVIEW Futurismic seeks contemporary science fiction for online publication. We're looking for innovative, exciting new stories that use the tools of speculative fiction to examine contemporary issues and take a look at what's just around the corner. Whether by established professionals or promising newcomers, we would like to see the very best in today's SF, with an emphasis on work that truly connects with and illuminates the fast-paced, fascinating times we live in. Stories should be compelling and well written, with a strong emphasis on characters confronting or embracing imminent cultural, social, technological, and scientific changes. PLEASE NOTE: Near-future, Earth-based science fiction is our primary focus! WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: Mundane SF Post-cyberpunk SF Satirical/gonzo futurism Realistic near future hard SF WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR: Fantasy Horror Space opera Off-world SF Distant futures Aliens Time Travel Alternate History (Stories submitted from the above-listed tropes or subgenres will likely be rejected out of hand.) LENGTH We will consider works of any length up to 15,000 words. Note that stories of 2,000 words or less tend to be a very tough sell to us. SUBMISSION FORMAT Our submissions webform is open! All submissions will need to come as Rich Text Files (RTF) - no other formats will be accepted. Attempted fiction submissions by any other method or channel will be deleted unopened and not responded to! PAYMENT Payment is a flat rate of US$200.00 per story, on acceptance, for first electronic rights (for publication on the world wide web) and nonexclusive audio performance rights (for podcasting). READING PERIODS AND RESPONSE TIMES Once we unlock the webform, we will be open for submissions year-round--although we may close the webform periodically to let the editors recharge their batteries! Response times tend to fall between 2-5 weeks of receipt of your story. Stories that we are strongly considering tend to take longer than that. If you haven't heard back after 5 weeks, feel free to query. OTHER NOTES * No reprints, please. * No simultaneous submissions, please. * No multiple submissions please submit only one story at a time. This really helps us keep the response times reasonable. QUESTIONS? Questions about these guidelines or queries about submitted manuscripts are welcome; just send an e-mail to the address included with your automated response. We will respond to queries as promptly as possible. We look forward to seeing your work. Good luck! Christopher East, Fiction Editor Paul Raven, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief http://futurismic.com/guidelines/ Strange Horizons [Weekly webzine, spec fic (no H) to 9k wds. (prefer to 5k wds). Pays 5 cents/wd. min $50. E-subs only (form). No sim or mult subs or reprints. RT 70 days.] Fiction Submission Guidelines Last major update: 22 September, 2007 Fiction editors: Susan Marie Groppi, Jed Hartman, Karen Meisner If this is your first time submitting to us, please spend some time reading these guidelines before you submit. What We Want and What We Don't Want We want good speculative fiction. If your story doesn't have a clear fantasy or science fiction element, or at least strong speculative-fiction sensibilities, it's probably not for us. We'd like to help make the field of speculative fiction more inclusive, more welcoming to both authors and readers from traditionally underrepresented groups, so we're interested in seeing stories from diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We want stories that have some literary depth but aren't boring; styles that are unusual yet readable; structures that balance inventiveness with traditional narrative. We like characters we can care about. We like settings and cultures that we don't see all the time in speculative fiction. We like stories that address political issues in complex and sensitive ways. However, we don't like heavy-handed or preachy or simplistic approaches. We like the idea of hypertext stories, but we have not yet published any. If you want to send us a hypertext story, query us to discuss how to submit it. As with any magazine, the best way to get a sense of the kinds of things we like is to read some of the fiction we publish. Since our magazine is free, the only cost to you is some of your time. Visit our fiction archives to see what we've published. We're not generally interested in: * horror (especially stories in which the main goal is to evoke feelings of fear, terror, or revulsion in the reader) * stories that explain a scientific or technological phenomenon in great detail * plots we see all the time * stories with twist endings Any sex or violence in the story should be artistically justified; no excessive gore. Sorry, no simultaneous submissions or unsolicited reprints. (Like most magazines, we consider material that has appeared on publicly-accessible websites to be published, and therefore cannot consider it.) We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world. Material other than fiction should be submitted to the appropriate editor. Pay Rates and Lengths We strongly prefer stories under 5,000 words long. We will consider stories up to 9,000 words, but the longer the story, the less likely we are to be interested. We can't consider stories significantly over our wordcount limit, not even as serials. In particular, we can't consider novels. We also can't consider partial or incomplete stories. Please don't send us part of a story and ask us to request the rest of it if we're interested. We have no minimum wordcount requirement; we will consider short-short stories. However, we generally aren't interested in stories with twist endings. We pay 5 cents/word, with a minimum payment of $50. SFWA officially considers us a professional market. We buy first-printing world exclusive rights for two months. After that period, you are free to republish the story elsewhere. We hope (but do not require) that you'll allow us to post the story in our archives indefinitely after it's rotated off the main table of contents, but you have the right to remove your story from the archives at any time. How to Submit To submit a story to us, upload a file in Rich Text Format using our submission form. To submit a story, you have to follow that link; you can't just email the RTF file to us. We can't consider submissions sent by papermail or as email attachments. To keep our response time down, we can't consider more than one story by a given author at a time. Therefore, please wait until we accept or reject each story before sending us another story, even if your stories are very short. If you're having trouble submitting, drop us a note (with a subject line beginning with "QUERY:") and let us know what the problem is. Please don't assume that you can ignore any guideline that you have trouble following. If your story conforms to our guidelines, please don't query about whether you can submit it; just submit it. If you're not sure whether it conforms to our guidelines, feel free to query (see How to Contact Us), but please don't provide a plot synopsis in your query. Don't send us your story until you have thoroughly proofread it. Accepted submissions may be edited for clarity or to correct minor errors, but submissions which do not meet minimum standards for correct spelling and grammar will be rejected, except in cases of obvious artistic license. Spellcheckers can be useful, but in many cases they merely compound spelling errors. If you're uncertain about your spelling or grammar, then ask a human to proofread your story before you submit. Response Time Our average response time is a little over a month, but that's an average; sometimes we take longer. We always respond in less than 70 days; that's the maximum. After you receive an autoresponse, please wait 70 days to query. After 70 days, if you haven't heard from us, please query immediately; please don't wait more than 70 days before querying. (Sometimes email goes astray.) We send an autoresponder message in response to every submission we receive, to let you know that we received it. If you haven't received an autoresponse within 24 hours after submitting, please query immediately. Please don't wait longer than 24 hours to query about a missing autoresponse. If you're curious about what happens to your story between the time you send it and the time we respond to it, see our page on the editorial process. How to Contact Us Before you contact us, please read the guidelines on this page. To query about a submission, or to contact us for any other reason, write to fiction@strangehorizons.com with the word QUERY: at the beginning of your subject line. http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction.shtml Weird Tales [Bimonthly print, gothic F and SF/H to 10k wds. Pays 3-4 cents/wd. on accept. E-subs and sim subs okay; no mult subs. RT 2-4 wks.] Editorial & creative director: Stephen H. Segal Fiction editor: Ann VanderMeer Contributing editors: Scott Connors, Elizabeth Genco, Darrell Schweitzer Editor emeritus: George H. Scithers Publisher: John Gregory Betancourt The Weird Tradition Weird Tales has enjoyed a devoted following for many decades as the very first magazine of gothic fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. Founded in 1923, the pioneering publication introduced the world to such counter-culture icons as Cthulhu the alien monster god and Conan the Barbarian. Weird Tales is well known for launching the careers of great authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, and Robert E. Howard--hell, Tennessee Williams made his first sale here!--not to mention legendary fantasy artists like Virgil Finlay and Margaret Brundage. The magazine's influence extends through countless areas of pop culture: fiction, certainly, but also rock music, goth style, comic books, gaming even Stephen King has called Weird Tales a major inspiration. The Modern Magazine After the original magazine operation folded in 1954, there were several brief attempts to revive it reprint anthologies in the '60s, four new magazine issues in the '70s, four original paperbacks in the early '80s before the resurrection finally achieved full-fledged afterlife under editor-publishers George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer and John Gregory Betancourt. Beginning in 1988, Weird Tales has published more or less continuously, albeit through a few format / frequency / ownership changes, to date. Over the past twenty years, the magazine has featured works by such modern masters as Tanith Lee, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Now published by Betancourt's Wildside Press (parent company of Prime Books and Juno Books), Weird Tales has undertaken to recommit itself to the magazine's original mission--to publish brilliantly strange material that can't be found elsewhere--even while bringing its unique aesthetics fully into the 21st century. Heading toward the 85th anniversary of Weird Tales's founding, new fiction editor Ann VanderMeer (co-anthologist of Best American Fantasy) and creative director Stephen H. Segal look to introduce a new generation of writers, artists, and other storytellers who lure unwary readers into the shadowy places between dream and reality Ann VanderMeer, Fiction Editor Editorial Address: P.O. Box 38190 Tallahassee, FL 32315 Business Address: 9710 Traville Gateway Dr. #234 Rockville, MD 20850 Fiction subs & queries: Ann VanderMeer, Fiction Editor Nonfiction & poetry subs & queries: Stephen Segal, Editorial Director FICTION WRITER'S GUIDELINES Founded in 1923, Weird Tales was the chief source for many types of fantastic fiction for a substantial portion of the 20th century; it helped launch the careers of imaginative authors as wildly diverse as H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury and Tennessee Williams. The present incarnation has been published continuously since 1988 -- and today, we are trying to be what Weird Tales might have become if it had continued from 1923 to the present uninterrupted. Where other current-day magazines of the fantastic often focus on a certain "flavor" (e.g., fantasy, horror, science fiction), Weird Tales' aesthetic is harder to pin down -- except that, quite simply, we are all about stuff that is weird. Truly extraordinary fiction you cannot find anywhere else. Stories that might tap on the shoulder of an innocent bystander, whisper in their ear, slap them across the face, and leave them with a strange new passion for the unique and unknown. *PAYMENT:* Upon acceptance, unless another arrangement is made. FNASR (First North American Serial Rights) covering all print and electronic versions of the magazine: 3-4 cents a word. Also two copies of the issue in which the work appears (reduced rates to contributors for additional copies). We also reserve the nonexclusive right to reprint stories, for an additional fee, in translated and collected editions (such as "Best-Of" volumes) drawn from our magazines. *SUBSCRIPTION RATES:* $24.00/year (6 issues) or $45.00 international. Order subscriptions or single copies online via www.weirdtalesmagazine.com. *FICTION:* Short stories of 10,000 words or less (don't send anything longer w/o a query first, or it will be returned unread). Weird Tales is looking for well-written work that is unusual and original; works of the fantastic, stories that are unique and strange with a proclivity toward the dark side. A new take on traditional storylines is also welcome as long as it is different and distinctive. Think in terms of the exploration of the imagination and stories which push the boundaries. Email submissions to the above Fiction e-mail address. *NONFICTION AND POETRY:* These are not acquired by our fiction editor, and should instead be addressed to editorial director Stephen Segal at the above Nonfiction & poetry e-mail address. Nonfiction: Our "Weirdism" section features third-person journalistic narrative vignettes of 300 to 500 words, written /New Yorker/ "Talk of the Town" style, whose motif is "the weirdness of real life." Poetry: We publish only a very small amount of poetry, and are currently only buying short poems of less than two manuscript pages. $5/poem. Please, no limericks at this time. *OTHER INFORMATION:* We prefer all submissions in standard manuscript format. (A simple Google search on "standard manuscript format" will turn up many examples and tutorials.) Simultaneous submissions accepted, but no multiple submissions. Cover letters are enjoyed but not essential. You may receive a form rejection, but I will do my best to give personal comments as time allows. Allow 2-4 weeks response time. For hardcopy submissions through the mail: provide an SASE with proper postage to ensure a response. If the postage is not enough to return the manuscript, it will be considered disposable. Weird Tales is not responsible for loss or damage to any unsolicited work. Please mail to the above Editorial Address. (guidelines from http://www.ralan.com) Some stories from the magazine available at http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/category/fiction/ http://www.weirdtales.net/ Zoetrope: All-Story [Quarterly print, all genres (literary) to 7k wds. Pays $1200. No e-subs, mult subs or reprints. Closed Sep 1-Dec 31. RT 1-5 mo.] Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly literary publication founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997 to explore the intersection of story and art, fiction and film. http://www.all-story.com/index.cgi Submission Guidelines Thank you for your interest in Zoetrope: All-Story. We are a staff of two, assisted by a small team of brilliant and generous volunteers, who are collectively dedicated to reading and responding to the 12,000 submissions All-Story receives annually. To aid us in this commitment, writers should submit only one story at a time and no more than two stories a year. Before submitting, non-subscribers should read several issues of the magazine to determine if their works fit with All-Story. Electronic versions of the magazine are available to read, in part, at the website (http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi? show=back); and print versions are available for purchase by single-issue order and subscription. We consider unsolicited submissions of short stories and one-act plays no longer than 7,000 words. Excerpts from larger works, screenplays, treatments, and poetry will be returned unread. We do not accept artwork or design submissions. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, and first serial rights and a one-year film option are required. We do not accept unsolicited revisions nor respond to writers who don't include an SASE. Beginning in 2007, All-Story will not accept submissions between September 1 and December 31 (with the exception of stories entered in the annual Short Fiction Contest, which are considered for publication in the magazine). All-Story does not accept submissions via e-mail. Send stories to: Zoetrope: All-Story Attn: Fiction Editor 916 Kearny St. San Francisco, CA 94133 We invite writers to take advantage of the Virtual Studio, a free online writers' workshop sponsored by All-Story and its publisher, Francis Coppola. Writers are encouraged to support the small and independent publications to which they submit; magazines such as All-Story depend on subscriptions to survive, ensuring forums for publication of new and emerging writers. http://www.all-story.com/submissions.cgi Ralan's (http://www.ralan.com) says all genres (fic). Pay: $1200. Words: <7k. RT: 1-5 months. Reprints: no. E-subs: none. Tamara Straus, Editor End of CALLIHOO Newsletter for 10 April 2008