Anthologies open for Short Story submissions:
Bibliotheca Fantastica
What we want: Stories having to do with lost, rare, weird, or imaginary books, or any aspect of book history or book culture, past, present, future, or uchronic. Any genre. Although the fantastical is not essential per se, stories should evoke a sense of the fantastic, the unknown, the weird, wonder, terror, mystery, pulp, and/or adventure, etc.
Originals only, no reprints. No simultaneous submissions. Prose fiction only (no poetry). Accepting stories of up to 10,000 words in length. We will accept two submissions per author.
Do not describe the story in your cover letter. Please put the word count on the first page of your submission. Please format italics in italics (no underline).
We will accept submissions from December 15, 2011, at noon EST, to midnight EST on March 31, 2012. We are taking submissions through an automated system that will not allow you to submit before December 15, but the link to do so will appear here: http://daganbooks.submishmash.com/submit
Dagan Books is paying 2 cents per word for each accepted story, plus contributor copies. Bibliotheca Fantastica will be available in both print and ebook, and is scheduled to be published Fall 2012.
About the editors:
Claude Lalumière is the author of two books – the collection Objects of Worship and the novella The Door to Lost Pages – as well as the co-creator of Lost Myths, and is the Fantastic Fiction columnist for The Montreal Gazette. Bibliotheca Fantastica is his tenth
anthology as editor.
Don Pizarro is an author of short fiction, and editor for Dagan Books. In addition to this anthology he is also editing Cthulhurotica 2 in 2012.
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Our next open anthology will be a second volume of our Cthulhurotica series, edited by Carrie Cuinn and Don Pizarro.
We will begin accepting stories of Lovecraftian erotica on May 1, 2012. No submissions will be considered before that time. Please take a moment to check out the first volume of Cthulhurotica before submitting. More information about this anthology will be posted soon. Please check back!
I would really like to know if bibliotecha fantastica is still open for submissions. i have an idea for a story. as far as plagiarism goes, if you have to do research for the story, and you list the books you used, and you didn’t use any quotes but it was necessary to study the topic you are researching, how would that work? please let me know. i haven’t seen bibliotecha fantistica listed in recent duotrope newsletters, so i’m hoping they are still planning on doing it.
We will accept submissions from December 15, 2011, at noon EST, to midnight EST on March 31, 2012.