The University of Nebraska Press is seeking submissions for an upcoming anthology titled “The Shell Game.” The book will feature “hybrid essays” that combine lyric meditation with extra-literary forms, such as police reports, obituaries, or recipes.

The deadline for submission is August 1st, 2016.

According to their guidelines:

“Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a curious new sub-genre is quietly emerging. Hybrids in the truest sense, “hermit crab” essays borrow their structures from ordinary, extra-literary sources (a recipe, a police report, a pack of cards, an obituary…) to use as a framework for a lyric meditation on the chosen subject. In the best examples, the borrowed structures are less contrived than inevitable, managing not only to give shape to the work but to illuminate and exemplify its subject.”

Payment will be $100, plus two copies of the anthology, plus a $100 coupon to UNP Books.

To learn more, read the submission guidelines.