Weekly Posts from The Horror Tree for 10/29/2021
Oct 30, 2021 2:46 am
Word of the week: Galere – A coterie of undesirable people.
Happy Halloween! I want to take a moment to welcome our new subscribers. Our newsletter is a collection of news and stories from Horror Tree and around the web designed to help connect writers to useful resources. Though our name is Horror Tree, we do more than just horror, so no matter what you write, welcome! We’re glad that you’re here.
As a reminder, Trembling with Fear’s Halloween special is happening this Sunday. Make sure to check it out for some spooky reads to chill you to the core while you’re passing out candy to your friendly neighborhood goblins and ghouls. Also, make sure to dust off those jingle bells and deck your halls, because submissions for Trembling with Fear’s Christmas special are open until December 7th.
As always, you can find me (Holley) lurking on Twitter @HLCornetto. Here are the latest articles on writing from around the web.
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Articles:
Friends, enemies, and everyone in between. Here are the latest articles worth your time that we've found from around the web!
Craft:
diy MFA: Creating Characters Using Collaborative Storytelling
Luna Station Quarterly: Romanticization as Worldbuilding
Business:
Jane Friedman: Does the Idea of Promoting Your Book Make You Feel Queasy?
Writers Weekly: 7 Paying Markets for Fiction Writers Who Want to Re-Write History
Free Fiction Roundup:
I’m excited to share this week’s fiction picks. First up, we have “Hidden People” by Austin Shirley. I’m a huge fan of his, he’s been writing some great stuff, and this story involving a marriage strained by the loss of a child and a race of people many don’t believe in is no exception. Austin blends speculative and literary fiction seamlessly. The next selection is by Corey Farrenkopf. I admire this author’s use of language in the piece. Lines are well placed, and Farrenkopf knows how to choose just the right word or phrase. “Slowing Down” by Claire McNerney was dark and touching. This is a short piece, but it’s powerful. It’s frightening, sad, and hopeful. The last piece of fiction is from Jared Povanda, an author I discovered earlier this year with an excellent piece in Wrongdoing Magazine’s first issue. “Yes, Huntington” is captivating and disturbing. I hope you enjoy this week’s fiction as much as I did.
Now, on to the fiction:
“Hidden People” by Austin Shirley. The Saturday Evening Post.
“Something Aquatic. Something Hungry” by Corey Farrenkopf. Necessary Fiction.
“Slowing Down” by Claire McNerney. Wyld Flash.
“Yes, Huntington” by Jared Povanda. Ellipsis Zine.
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Top Articles Of The Week Excerpts:
🗒️ Ongoing Submissions: Not Another Lit Mag
Payment: $15 per contribution Theme: Film parodies of the 90s and early-2000s such as Scream (1996), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Shrek (2001), Another Gay Movie (2006), and more, cement the idea that old tropes and references can be recreated into something new and fresh.
READING PERIOD Not Another Lit Mag reads year round.
The magazine publishes quarterly.
Publication dates appear below.
Decisions for subsequent issues are made the tenth of the previous month....
🗒️ Watch Our Interview with Kevin Lucia
Enjoy this Author Interview between Author Kevin Lucia & host Ivana Sanders about his experiences as a horror author, horror fan, movie buff, and his newest release “October Nights” a collection of horror novellas!
✨ Kevin Lucia’s short fiction has appeared in several anthologies, most recently with Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Bentley Little, Peter Straub and Robert McCammon.
You can watch the full video right here: His first short story collection, Things Slip Through was published November 2013, followed by Devourer of Souls in June 2014, Through A Mirror, Darkly, June 2015, and and his second short story collection, Things You Need, September 2018.His novella Mystery Road was published by Cemetery Dance Publications May, 2020.For three free ebooks, sign up for his monthly newsletter at www.kevinlucia.blogspot.com. All of his novels can be found on his Amazon author page here:https://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Lucia/e/B003L29OEM?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1634421075&sr=1-3 ✨FOLLOW US ALL✨ ~ KEVIN LUCIA ~ Twitter: @KevinBLucia IG: @KevinLucia Website: www.kevinlucia.blogspot.com ~ HORROR TREE ~ Twitter: @HorrorTree IG: @Horror_Tree FB: HorrorTree ~ IVAVA SANDERS ~ Twitter: @TheNovelette IG: @TheNovelette1 Thank you Kevin Lucia and visit Horror Tree for more Author Interviews and other vital writers’ resources at www.HorrorTree.com!!Donate to the Horror Tree Patreon to support the hardworking Horror team:https://t.co/iGiWU9burv?amp=1 Music promoted by Sound Libraryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsH9…
🗒️ Ongoing Submissions: Memento Vitae
Payment: $20 (NZD) Theme: Attaching memories to physical items An exploration through pictures & prose of how we attach memories to physical items… Throughout our lives we collect and keep physical things that are important to us in ways others might never understand.
These items — also known as “emotional tokens” — are often completely worthless in monetary terms, but absolutely priceless to us.
A perfectly round pebble found on the beach while on holiday.
A silk scarf given to us by our grandma.
A bead once part of a favourite necklace, worn so often it finally snapped....
🗒️ Taking Submissions: Beware The Bugs
Deadline: February 11th 2022 Payment: $.01 per word advanced against royalties Theme: Giant bugs!
Note: Reprints Welcome Beware the Bugs is open to stories about giant bugs (or, perhaps, normal sized bugs and tiny humans).
Fantasy or science fiction are welcome.
Word Balloon Books sells print editions at comic cons, Ren Fairs, and book festivals.
We’ve noticed that most books at these event target adult readers, so in 2022 we’re launching a line of anthologies appropriate for readers 10 and up.
We’re open to challenging themes and subject matter, but language, graphic violence, and sexual content should be rated G....
🗒️ “Writing for Themed Anthologies,” with Keith DeCandido, Randee Daw, and Michael A. Ventrella
REVIEW: “Writing for Themed Anthologies,” with Keith DeCandido, Randee Dawn, and Michael A.
Ventrella A long time ago, an editor (who has since passed away), gave me a compliment–I wasn’t as much of a noob as a lot of writers who had only published a few things.
That is, I tended to make less of an ass of myself than other writers who were relatively new at the game… Okay, that sounds rude, and I don’t mean it to be, but before I started trying to send out stories for rejection, I mean consideration, I did a lot of reading and searching Internet groups and articles aimed at writers.
I made mistakes of course, as most writers do, but I never had to ask the question “Where do I start?
” If you’re asking that question, “Writing for Themed Anthologies” might hold a few answers for you.
The video first aired as a live stream on September 2, 2020....
🗒️ Taking Submissions: Great Weather For Media 2021 Winter Submissions
Deadline: January 16th, 2022 Payment: $10 and a contributor’s copy Theme: Edgy, fearless, and experimental subject matter and styles great weather for MEDIA seeks poetry and prose for our annual print anthology.
Our reading period runs October 15, 2021 to January 16, 2022. (Midnight PST) Our focus is on edgy, fearless, and experimental subject matter and styles.
We highly recommend reading one of our previous collections to see the type of work we are interested in and the design of our books.
Our latest anthology is Paper Teller Diorama.
(Looking for a bargain?
We have a very limited number of slight seconds for $5 at our online store.
) Let us know in your cover letter how you found us and what you like about us.
We are based in New York City and welcome submissions from both national and international writers....
🗒️ Taking Submissions: Hitchcockian-Themed Anthology
Deadline: November 30th, 2021 Payment: 4€ euros per 1000 words for original stories and two print copies, 2€ euros per 1000 words for reprints and two print copies Theme: Stories directly inspired by a Hitchcock film Note: Reprints Welcome Black Beacon Books publishes quality mystery and suspense anthologies.
We are currently OPEN to submissions for our Hitchcock-themed anthology.
We’re looking for suspense stories directly inspired by a Hitchcock film.
The story doesn’t have to be set in the 50s or 60s but it must convey the atmosphere and tension that make his films so memorable.
Please submit the first page only of your story and a synopsis of the entire plot....
🗒️ Taking Submissions: Starward Shadows Quarterly 2021 Window
Submission Window: October 31st to November 7th, 2021 Payment: $0.01 per word for 1,500 – 6,000 words and $10 flat for 500 – 1,500 words Theme: Anything with a Dark Souls, Morrowind, or Oblivion vibe will have us foaming at the mouth.
Also, one of the editors has also had a lifelong, questionable obsession with A Clockwork Orange and those old Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comics .
Updates from original call Changed our response time to 3 months/90 days.
Changed the upper limit of short fiction to 6k instead of 8k Starward Shadows Quarterly is an online dark speculative fiction magazine seeking stories between 500 and 6,000 words.
We’re interested in exploring the wicked, strange places that walk the line between reality and nightmare—the alien, the absurd, and above all else, the weird....
Enjoy,
Stuart Conover
