{"id":4739,"date":"2017-12-12T07:16:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2017-12-15T06:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:20:05","slug":"800-for-short-stories-to-be-published-in-awakenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/800-for-short-stories-to-be-published-in-awakenings\/","title":{"rendered":"$800 for Short Stories to be Published in &#8220;Awakenings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Smugglers is currently seeking submissions of short stories for their upcoming anthology, <em>Awakenings. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to their call for submissions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When it comes to Awakenings, anything goes. You, the author, should feel free to take this general theme and interpret it in any way you see fit\u2013from a story about an AI\u2019s first hours of sentience, to magical alternate histories featuring characters discovering how to wield power for the first time, <em>anything goes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage authors to subvert these sample themes, to expand upon what \u201cawakenings\u201d means, and adapt the prompt to other possible connotations and genres under the Speculative Fiction umbrella.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They will pay 8 cents per word, up to $800.<\/p>\n<p>Stories should be between 1,500 and 17,500 words.<\/p>\n<p>The stories will be published free on their website, as well as in an ebook. The ebook will offer 50% net royalties.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to submit is December 31st, 2017, at 11:59PM. (The very last minute of 2017!)<\/p>\n<p>They plan to respond to all submissions by February 20th.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebooksmugglers.com\/2017\/10\/book-smugglers-publishing-open-call-short-stories-submissions-2018-awakenings.html\">visit this page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Smugglers is currently seeking submissions of short stories for their upcoming anthology, Awakenings. According to their call for submissions: &#8220;When it comes to Awakenings, anything goes. You, the author, should feel free to take this general theme and interpret it in any way you see fit\u2013from a story about an AI\u2019s first hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4739","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\/4739","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=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}