Over the past week I've found a pair essays about anthologies. Jeff Vandermeer compares putting together an anthology to cooking, be sure you've eaten before you finish this one because you'll surely be hungry afterwards, both for food and great stories. http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/09/08/steampunk-reloaded-creating-books-is-like-cooking/
Brit Mandelo looks at the future of anthologies from the perspective of one who works in a bookstore. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/09/anthologies-a-few-thoughts
Katherine Tomlinson puts forward a great argument for writing short stories under 5000 words on her blog. Katherine is the publisher of Dark Valentine. http://kattomic-energy.blogspot.com/2010/09/less-is-more.html
Sandra Ruttan, editor of Spinetingler was answering questions about submitting to her zine in several places this week. http://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/ was one and http://www.jungleredwriters.com/2010/09/scoop-on-spinetingler.html Spinetingler was one of the online zines that MWA approved which has sent more submissions their way this year, so knowing precisely what they're looking for will give you better odds of getting accepted. Besides, Spinetingler is a cool place to be published, even before they were approved!
Zine-Scene.com was set to launch in October but they got tired of waiting so they're launching the zine spotlight section - tomorrow! The featured zine is DecomP. They'll be taking a look at the zine and will feature an interview with the editor. http://zine-scene.com/
Moon Milk Review has another flash contest running until September 31. The featured picture is pretty cool, it's called "Hands of an Artist". Word limit is 500 and you submit through a Submishmash form. The winner gets published in the October issue. Details at http://www.moonmilkreview.com/2010/07/05/sept-prosetry-prompt
I mentioned this anthology http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=7050 back in August when the call was first posted. A note from Al Tucher, who placed a story with them already, Yeah, Al!!, reminded me that it was time to repost a link to the call. They opened for subs on Sept. 1 and will close on January 3, 2011. They're looking for historical fiction with a Lovecraftian twist. And they pay.
Also, the lovely Brian Lindenmuth dropped me a few links this past week and while they have nothing to do with shorts, some of you might find them of interest.
The first is called How to Write a Book http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/06/28/how_to_write_a_book.html
The second is a very cool human interest story, and when you think about it, there could be a great short story created from this one. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/854018--how-panhandlers-use-free-credit-cards
2 comments:
Whew-Some work here for you. Thanks!
Not really a lot of work, Patti, i just jot down links when I find something interesting. Plus, there's a few people like Brian who pass along some great links. I post them, hoping someone will get some use out of them.
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