Currently Closed to Novel / Short Story Collection Submissions

At this time we are closed for novel-length fiction submissions. We will reopen for those types of works later in the year.

Submissions for BIBLIOTHECA FANTASTICA are now closed

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a story for this anthology. At this time, the submissions are closed. The editors, Claude Lalumière and Don Pizarro, are reading through the last of the submissions and making their final selections.

We can’t wait to share the Table of Contents for this book with you.

- Carrie Cuinn, Publisher

Updates and random data for BIBLIOTHECA FANTASTICA:

News from one of the editors, Claude Lalumière:

  • so far, we’ve received 110 submissions, and sent responses to all of them. If you have NOT received a response to your submission, please check your spam filter. If it is not there, please contact us.
  • of that total, we’ve passed on 90 and have kept 20 in the pool of stories we’re seriously considering.
  • of those 20, 11 are by men, and 9 by women.
  • of those 20, 6 are by Canadians.

Keep those submissions coming!

More information (and the submission form) can be found here: http://daganbooks.submishmash.com/submit

About Submissions: Note from a Bibliotheca Fantastica editor

Claude, one of the editors of Bibliotheca Fantastica, recently had this to say about the stories he was seeing in the slush pile:

So far, the best subs for BF have mostly been wry and/or metafictional, which has been fun to read. I would love to see more adventure, more pulp, more suspense, more passion, more emotion. I would also love to see stories where the connection to the theme is a bit less obvious from the get-go; it should go there, yes, but perhaps from unexpected angles. Most of all, I want diversity: in theme, in style, in genre, in provenance, etc.  I want to be surprised; so I don’t want to be too specific.

You still have plenty of time to submit! Please see our submission guidelines for more information.