CALLIHOO Newsletter Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 9, No. 18 5 March 2002 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue News Publication Notes Deadlines Market Information 3SF Artemis Magazine Century Magazine Elysian Fiction Fictionwise Infinite Matrix Twilight Showcase ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS PUBLICATION NOTES William Shunn's novelette, "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites," made the final ballot for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)'s Nebula(R) Awards. Congratulations and best of luck, Bill! Julia West's prize-winning novelette, "Sea of Chaos," is available now online at Fictionwise as well as at Alexandria Digital Literature. Check it out at http://www.fictionwise.com/ eBooks/JuliaHWesteBooks.htm As on AlexLit, there is a small fee per download, but it's available in a large number of electronic formats. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) DEATHLINGS.COM "FAMILY SECRETS" CONTEST Deadline 15 March 2002 [Use contests to submit to magazines. H/DF to 4,000 wds. Pays 3 cents/wd. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] WHO KILLED THE EASTER BUNNY? ANTHOLOGY Deadline 16 March 2002 [Web antho, H, etc. to 5,000 wds, nothing said about pay. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 12)] NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 30 March 2002 [Contest, Novel/novella any style, theme, or genre. $30 entry fee. 1st $2,000, 2nd $1,000, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $100 each + pub in antho. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] PAX FANTASTICA CHALLENGE Deadline 31 March 2002 [Competition, writers under 21, speculative fiction to 6,000 wds. E-mail and mult subs okay. Prizes gift certs to Amazon.com: 1st-3rd $40, $30, $20. No entry fee. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, 2ND QUARTER 2002 Deadline 31 March 2002 [$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. 9 No. 1)] BYLINE FLASH FICTION CONTEST Deadline 5 April 2002 [Flash fiction under 1000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $60, $30, $20. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] MATTER OF TIME CONTEST Deadline 19 April 2002 [Contest, time-themed story to 5,000 wds, undergrad students only. No E-mail subs, prize $2,500 and pub in literary journal =Limestone=. 2 HMs published. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 14)] LORIAN HEMINGWAY SHORT STORY COMPETITION Deadline 1 May 2002 [Annual competition, fiction all genres, new writers. To 3000 wds. No reprints or E-mail subs. Contest format. Entry fee $10 before 1 May, $15 1-15 May. Prizes: 1st $1000, 2nd and 3rd $500 ea. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] SONGS FROM DEAD SINGERS Deadline 1 May 2002 [Print anthology, H to 6,000 wds (2500-4000 ideal). Pays $10US per story on pub. No reprints, sim, or mult subs. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] BYLINE NEW-TALENT SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 4 May 2002 [Open to any writer who never has won a cash prize in any ByLine fiction category. Maximum 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $35, $25, $15. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 31 May 2002 [Contest, poem any style, theme, or genre. $3 entry fee. Prizes: 1st $500, 2nd $250, 3rd $100, 4th-10th $25 each + pub in antho. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] VIRTUAL IRELAND SHORT STORY COMPETITION Deadline 31 May 2002 [Contest, short fiction, any genre, in English or Irish, to 1950 wds. Mult and online subs okay. Entry fee of $12US per entry. 1st place $4,000US, 2nd place $400 book package, 3rd place $200 book package. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] DEATHLINGS.COM "THE 70S WERE HELL AND WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT" CONTEST Deadline 15 Jun 2002 [Use contests to submit to magazines. H/DF to 4,000 wds. Pays 3 cents/wd. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] IMAGININGS Deadline 15 June 2002 [Print anthology, SF/F 8,000-15,000 wds, pays $950 per story + 10% royalties. No reprints or E-mail subm. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 4 and No. 14).] DOWNSTATE STORY MAGAZINE Yearly Deadline 30 June 2002 [Annual literary printzine, genre fiction to 2,000 wds. Pays $50/story on accept. No reprints or E-mail subs. Buys 10 stories/year. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] LOW PORT Deadline July 2002 [Open antho, SF/F 3,000 to 10,000 wds, pays 5-8 cents/wd. on accept, reading between Sept 2001 and July 2002. No electronic subm. Low Port, Lee and Miller, P.O. Box 179, Unity, Maine 04988-0179. (GLs in Vol. 9, No. 1)] NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 31 July 2002 [Contest, screenplay or stage play any style, theme, or genre. $30 entry fee. Screenplay 1st $3000, 2nd $1500, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $200 each. Stage play 1st $2000, 2nd $1000, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $200 each. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] MOTA: AN ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY OF FINE FICTION Deadline 1 November 2002 [Annual antho, fiction to 10,000 wds (to 8,000 wds preferred). Pays $100 on pub. Mult subs and reprints okay. (GLs in Vol. 9, No. 9)] THE MOONLIGHT & MAGNOLIA FICTION WRITING CONTEST: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR Deadline 15 December 2002 [Annual competition for new writers, SF/F/H to 10,000 wds. No reprints. Prizes: 1st $250, 2nd $100, 3rd $50. Entry fee $7.50 per story ($2.50 2nd and thereafter to 3 entries). (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET INFORMATION 3SF Liz Holliday, editor of the upcoming British print magazine =3SF=, says, "As soon as we finalise the official PR report, I'll be starting a sff.publishing.3SFmagazine [news]group [on sff.net]. "Thought you might be interested in what we'll have in the regular issues. "Fiction in the first few issues from Mike Moorcock, Ian Watson, Brian Stableford and (I'm pretty certain of this, but not 100 percent) Mary Gentle. "Interviews with Jane Yolen and Joe Haldeman. Hoping for one with China Mieville, but don't know yet. "Reviews (British original fiction) - Gwyneth Jones Reviews (US) - Rich Horton Reviews (media) - Alex Stewart "In Media Res (media analysis/criticism) and Who Goes There (humorous take on a media character or whatever) - Alex Stewart "Writers on Writing" - Christy Hardin Smith "Readers' Guides - various, open to suggestions. Already got Steven Silver (hope I've spelled that right) lined up to do one on Alternate History. "FanAc (actually, this'll be called something else, but not sure what yet) - open to suggestions, but we will be having something about the Glasgow Worldcon by the con committee; possibly a 'Countdown to the Con' thing, for instance. Open to suggestions for fannish areas we could cover. Could even be persuaded to do one on sff.net.... "I'm sure there's more, but I can't think what right now." [sff.people.liz, 22 Feb 2002] ARTEMIS MAGAZINE Ian Randal Strock, editor of =Artemis Magazine=, says, "The problem with [receiving artwork and manuscripts via E-mail] is that my modem is 28.8, meaning it would take nearly forever to download the number of submissions I get (and even if I limited it to only art... well, you know how big those files get). Add in the fact of limited hard drive space (even 4GB is limited in some cases), and the fact that, though you and I are completely trustworthy, there are a lot of nuts sending around viruses and whatnot, and you can see why this self-respecting editor will not soon be accepting electronic submissions. "As a sidebar, consider also the fact that it's the matter of only a few keystrokes and almost no thought for a would-be author or artist to submit a story or artwork electronically. Submitting on paper, however, requires actually printing out the work (which usually gives the submitter pause enough to reread it at least once to make sure it's finished), putting it in an envelope, addressing that envelope, and paying postage to get it to me. In other words, the author/artist who has taken the time and spent the money to send me something probably has a lot more respect for me and his own work than the fool who can't be bothered to pay the few ducats postage. It's the first stage weeding of my slush pile." When asked if he would be going to E-mail responses to submissions, Mr. Strock said, "The reasons I prefer an SASE are that when I'm reading submissions, I'm not on-line writing e-mail. If I'm going to remember my reaction to a story long enough to send e-mail about it, I'm probably buying that story, but for the average submission, as good as it may be, you're getting a fairly standard rejection letter, possibly with a few pithy comments. On the other hand, if I'm accepting your manuscript, it's a pain in the ass to fold a contract and check into a postcard (sorry, that's my other gripe: requesting an SASE and getting an SASP). And finally, it goes back to that 'the author showing a little respect for his own work.' The vast majority of submissions are now showing up with a business-sized SASE for my response and a disposable manuscript, which is just fine (I do it myself); but at least they're telling me they value my response." [sff.publishing.artemismagazine, 27 Feb 2002] CENTURY MAGAZINE Ralan Conley says that =Century= magazine is hoping to get out a spring issue and return to a normal schedule after the tragic loss of Associate Editor Jenna A. Felice last March. Outstanding submissionss should expect responses fairly soon. New mailing address PO Box 336, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 U.S.A. [www.ralan.com, 26 Jan and 18 Feb 2002] ELYSIAN FICTION Jim Bailey, editor of =Elysian Fiction=, says, "The *reading* part of selecting for #3 and #4 is done, which means everything up to Jan 31st, 2002. I still need to decide from the 2nd read pile, then send notices of reject/acceptance, however, so there's still a few days before it's *all* done. I was bad, though, and let a small backlog of queries pile up so I could to this point, so I'll be working on answering those as I go here." [sff.publishing.elysian-fiction, 24 Feb 02] FICTIONWISE Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise says, "Just to clarify, at this very moment we are not set up to accept original fiction from authors. We have a lot of plans but they are in the early stages." [sff.publishing.tangent-online, 6 Mar 2002] INFINITE MATRIX Ralan Conley says, "Just a note about =Infinite Matrix=. The last time Eileen Gunn had this magazine going, I contacted her about a listing on Ralan.com. She was absolutely not interested in that, and certainly not in actually reading unsolicited submissions. She simply didn't have the time for that! Her argument was she had a regular "stable" of great "name" writers to draw from, and if she needed more she could always call "anyone" else and get a good story. As long as she has the funds to pay high-powered writers, this will be the case with her. And I doubt she would ever revive the magazine if she didn't have that kind of funding and freedom. "I never ran a listing, but all the other market listings carried one until its demise. Even if I.M. does make a come back, you still won't find a listing for it on Ralan.com. I firmly believe that submitting there would be a waste of time, energy, and money. The wise be advised." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/topic204.htm, 17 Feb 2002] TWILIGHT SHOWCASE A writer on the Rumor Mill says, "I just got an e-mail back from =Twilight Showcase= that the strangeconcepts@rica.net e-dress (listed in the February issue of =Speculations=) should no longer be used for submissions. From now on submissions should be directed to submissions@twilightshowcase.com or fictioneditor@twilightshowcase.com." [sff.publishing.market-reports, 27 Feb 2002] ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 5 March 2002==