Want to get anthologized? The following is a list of upcoming anthologies currently in need of submissions.<\/p>\n
All of these publishers pay at least 6 cents per word. Expect payment up to $350 or more for stories that get published, depending on length. Keep in mind that some of these anthologies have deadlines approaching very quickly.<\/p>\n
1.TAANSTAAFL<\/strong> Press is calling for submissions to their upcoming anthology “Enter the Rebirth,” the third in a series of post-apocalyptic anthologies of short stories. They pay up to 8 cents per word, averaging 3 cents per word. Stories can be up to 8,000 words. The deadline is December 15th, 2016.\u00a0 Submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n 2. The Museum of Science Fiction<\/strong> is calling for submissions to their Kickstarter<\/a> funded anthology, “Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers: Women of SF.” They pay at least 7 cents per word, and more, depending on how much money they raise. They’ve already met their minimum of $8,500, and appear on track to double the amount. The deadline is December 1st, 2016.\u00a0 Submission Guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Reckoning<\/strong> is currently open to submissions for their annual anthology. They want short stories, non-fiction, and poetry that addresses ” your searingly personal, visceral, idiosyncratic understanding of the world and the people in it<\/em> as it has been, as it is, as it will be, as it could be, as a consequence of humanity\u2019s relationship with the earth.” They pay 6 cents per word for prose. The deadline is November 1st.\u00a0 Submission Guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n 4. Dreaming Robot Press<\/strong> is currently seeking submissions for the 2018 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide. They want short sci-fi\/speculative fiction stories aimed at a middle grade audience (8-12 years old.). They pay 6 cents per word. Stories should be 3,000 to 6,000 words. The deadline is January 31st, 2017.\u00a0 Submission Guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n 5. The National Space Society<\/strong> and Baen Books<\/strong> is currently hosting a writing contest to honor science fiction that removes the limits of what “is” and shows us a boundless vista of what “might be.” The contests honor’s Jim Baen. They offer a cash prize, as well as free admission to the 2017 International Space Development Conference. The deadline for entry is February 1st, 2017. Entry Guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n 6, 7, 8. Zombies Need Brains<\/strong> just successfully funded 3 anthologies via Kickstarter. They are now accepting submissions for SUBMERGED, ALL HAIL OUR ROBOT CONQUERORS!, and THE DEATH OF ALL THINGS.\u00a0 The anthologies include sci-fi\/fantasy set underwater, 50s\/60s themed robot stories, and stories with “death” as a character.\u00a0 They pay 6 cents per word, up to 7,500 words. The deadline for submissions is December 31st, 2016. Submission Guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to get anthologized? The following is a list of upcoming anthologies currently in need of submissions. All of these publishers pay at least 6 cents per word. Expect payment up to $350 or more for stories that get published, depending on length. Keep in mind that some of these anthologies have deadlines approaching very…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}