Fiction, memoir and poetry will be considered for the winter 2016 echapbook anthology by multiple authors, to be published in February 2016.
The theme for this year’s annual themed anthology is Devices: Technology’s impact on our lives and relationships. Fiction on this topic can be contemporary, historical, or speculative science fiction. We’d like to see personal memoir or creative nonfiction about family history. The technology could be as old as the invention of writing, false teeth, the printing press, or something not yet invented; it might be your first TV, your grandfather’s model T, or augmented reality eyeware. What are the stories and the emotional dynamics? We are looking for the human component, regardless of device or genre.
Submissions are open from November 15 through January 31, 2016.
Submit up to three poems or a short story, novel or memoir excerpt, or personal essay (1,000 to 5,000 words). Please indicate whether a first-person prose narrative is fiction or nonfiction. Note that really long poems are not suitable for this venue. Send us your best.
Work should not have been previously published with this exception: If you are submitting poems, at least one submission to the anthology issue should be previously unpublished, either online or in print (excluding self-published pieces). If a second or third poem is submitted, they can be reprints.
Do not include any identification in the submitted document, as these readings will be blind.
Submit ONE FILE (Word doc or docx, RTF, ODT or WordPerfect), which includes title (or titles, if poems) in the file name (but NOT the author’s name).
The cover letter should include a brief bio and a few previous publications, though this will not be read until after we have decided what might be included.
There is no fee for submissions.
Payment: $100 for collections ($5 to $20 for single pieces in anthologies)
All rights revert to authors.
Note: By submitting to Wordrunner eChapbooks, you are also signing up for the quarterly emailed announcement of newly published echapbooks. We will never give out your e-mail to anyone else. You can always opt out of the mailing.
>via: http://www.echapbook.com/submissions.html