WRITERS’ NEWS
96 MARCH 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.ukSouthword, the
literary journal
produced by
Munster Literature
Centre in Ireland,
is accepting poetry
submissions for its
September issue
up to 28 February.
Payment is €40 per
accepted poem.
Website:
https://writ.rs/
southwordpoems
2020Despite hopes
to the contrary,
efforts to fi nd
a buyer for
struggling discount
book website and
high street chain
The Book People
have failed. 155 of
the company’s 393
staff were made
redundant on 10
January, but the
chain continues
to operate
online ‘while any
remaining interest
is explored’.Shirley Hughes,
children’s author
and illustrator
and the writer of
much-loved 1977
children’s classic
Dogger, is writing
and drawing a
follow-up at the
age of 92. Dogger’s
Christmas will
be published by
Random House in
the autumn.‘You can’t change
the fact you have
to live in this
world at this time.
At the same time,
writers are trying
to shape the world- I mean, the way
people think and
feel. Above all, we
have to get away
from the simple
soundbites, the
karate-chop syntax
of the daily news,
as well as the data
avalanche, where
no one can fi nd
the meaning any
more.’
Jeanette Winterson
FLASHES
Combining science and faith
GLOBAL SPECFIC MARKET
Gary DalkinNow in its third year, Mysterion is a US-based ezine
of Christian-themed speculative fiction edited and
published by the husband and wife team of Donald
S Crankshaw and Kristin Janz. Though they publish
stories throughout the year, their reading periods are
July and January each year. During those months they
are open for submissions of quality speculative fiction
(science fiction, fantasy or horror) with Christian
characters, themes, or cosmology. They note that the
Christian faith is filled with mystery, from the Trinity
and the Incarnation to the smaller mysteries found
in some of the strange and unexplained passages of
the Bible: Behemoth and Leviathan, nephilim and
seraphim, giants and more. They argue that there isno reason for fiction engaging with
Christianity to be more tidy and
theologically precise than the faith itself.
Submissions can be up to 9,000 words
long (hard limit) and must contain a
speculative element – the editors are
particularly fond of ghost stories. Tales
should explore the mysteries of Christian
theology or feature characters whose
Christian faith affects their actions or
offer a Christian perspective on the
supernatural. You do not have to be
Christian to submit a story, and stories
don’t have to be unambiguously pro-
Christian. If you can tell a good story that
meaningfully engages with Christianity in a speculative
way Crankshaw and Janz want to see it.
Payment is 8¢ per word for original fiction, including
translations of stories that have not previously appeared
in English. Reprints earn 4¢ per word. This is for six
months’ exclusive worldwide publication rights for
original works (with exceptions for established Best
of the Year anthologies), and non-exclusive worldwide
print and electronic rights thereafter for both original
works and reprints. No multiple or simultaneous
submissions. Response time, up to three months.
Follow the very detailed full guidelines at http://www.
mysteriononline.com/p/submission-guidelines.htmlAll stories submitted to Zooscape must significantly feature an
anthropomorphic animal figure and any ‘furry fiction from the secret life of
animals to fox in Starbucks’ will be considered. Science fiction and fantasy
stories concerning such as ‘animal like aliens, talking dragons, unicorns or
witch familiars’ are also welcome.
Furry fiction is said to be a rapidly growing sub-genre of science fiction
and fantasy and this e-zine, published quarterly, is where ‘animals can
talk, magic flows and the stars are in reach’, according to editor and
founder Mary E Lowd.
Stories should be a maximum 10,000 words, in standard manuscript
format, as a doc, docx or rtf document.
Although reprints will be considered with the usual proviso,
simultaneous submissions are not wanted and neither are stories
containing racist or sexist ideologies. For a clear idea of the kind of
stories wanted check out the online content.
Payment rates are 8¢ per word up to 1,000 words, a flat rate of $80 for
longer stories and $20 for reprints.
Email your story as an email attachment with ‘SUBMISSION: your story
title and word count’ in the subject line to: [email protected]
Website: https://zooscape-zine.com/guidelinesNot the usual furry animals
GLOBAL FICTION MARKET
Jenny Rocheis a US-based ezinetheologically precise than the faith itself.long (hard limit) and must contain a
speculative element – the editors are
particularly fond of ghost stories. Tales
should explore the mysteries of Christian
theology or feature characters whose
Christian faith affects their actions or
offer a Christian perspective on the
supernatural. You do not have to be
Christian to submit a story, and stories
don’t have to be unambiguously pro-
Christian. If you can tell a good story thatTrue words
by women
Women writers are invited
to submit original powerful
scene-driven first-person
non-fiction stories to Six
Hens, a USA based quarterly
online literary journal.
‘Our writers take us to
the places and events that
changed what they believe
in, changed how they see the
world, and changed them,’
say guidelines.
Submissions should be a
maximum 2,000 words and
be previously unpublished.
Excerpts from longer
works are welcome as are
simultaneous submissions.
Featured writers will
receive $50.
Submit your work using
the form on the website.
Editors aim to respond to
submissions within twelve
weeks.
Website: http://sixhens.com/