Market Notes

Crossed Genres has put out a call for their second annual flash fiction contest. http://crossedgenres.com/flashfic Stories from 100 to 500 words with a June 15 deadline. The stories can be anything sci-fi or fantasy and unpublished. There's an online form for submissions and a one story per person limit. Top prize is $25 and a copy of the Crossed Genres Year One anthology. The three honorable mentions will receive a copy of the anthology.

Crossed Genres is also open for regular submissions until June 30 for the theme Invasion. 1000 to 8000 words with payment of $10. You can find the details here http://crossedgenres.com/submissions There's also a list of upcoming themes on the site.

Fear and Trembling has closed its doors. The notice was posted to the zine's forum board on May 2, not in the zine itself.

Also, Disenthralled has closed to submissions, no word if this is permanent or not. http://disenthralled.net/

And while we have two closings, we have two zines that have opened for submissions this month. Big Pulp and Flash Quake, both paying markets. You'll find their urls to the left.

Brian Lindenmuth has let me know that the first issue of Light Speed has gone live. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ Each week they will post a new short story and a piece of non-fiction. If you prefer to read the magazine all at once or just want to be able to carry it with you, you can download the entire issue for $2.99. Light Speed is closed to submissions at the moment, but will reopen on July 15 for all types of sci-fi stories of 1000 to 7500 words. Payment is 5cents a word and they do accept reprints at a penny a word, but query about the reprints. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/guidelines

And a late addition here: June 1 was the opening date for a call I listed back in March from Twelfth Planet Press. The anthology is Speakeasy and they're looking for fantasy stories set in the 1920's. The deadline is September 30 for shorts of 2500 to 7500 words. You can find the details here http://twelfthplanet.livejournal.com/11064.html Forgot to mention that this is a paying market of $50AUS for accepted stories.