Call for Submissions: Like Butterflies In Iron
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Call for Submissions: Like Butterflies In Iron
Stories wanted for a Circlet Press anthology on the theme of urban faeries. Faeries can be delicate yet ruthless, living under rules and moires that can be quite different from their human neighbors. Do modern faeries still steal children and leave changelings in their place? Have they modernized, or not? Where is the intersection between the fay appetite for pleasure and revelry and the dark reality of urban life? When we trade woodlands for alleys and grassy knolls for dark boudoirs, what happens to the fairy myth? Explore the erotic edge inherent in faerie/faery/fairy. All sexualities and gender expressions are welcome.
Submission Details:
Reading period begins on January 25th and ends on February 19th. Our preferred length is approximately 3500 to 7500 words, but we will consider the range from 2000 to 10,000 words. All submissions must be made via email to the following address: lauren.circletpress@gmail.com. Submissions sent to other addresses/other editors at Circlet Press will not be considered. Standard manuscript formatting rules apply even though sending as an attachment (MS Word .doc or .rtf preferred). Please note that this means your name, address, and email contact must appear on the manuscript itself and not simply in your email message. (If you’re not sure what standard short story submission format should look like, Google is your friend.)
No simultaneous submissions (that is, don’t also send your story elsewhere at the same time, and don’t send it to multiple Circlet editors, either), and no multiple submissions to the same book. One story per author per anthology, thanks.
All stories must include explicit sexuality and erotic focus. Romantic content is welcome, but in a short story remember to keep the details on the action and its effects on the main character’s internal point of view. We favor a strong, singular narrative voice (no ‘head hopping’). For more details on our editorial preferences, see the general submission guidelines on circlet.com. We highly recommend reading the guidelines, especially the “do not send” list, to increase your chances of sending us something we’ll love. Try to avoid cliches. Fresh and direct language is preferred to overly euphemistic. Sex-positive, please, no rape/nonconsensuality/necrophilia or other purposefully gross topics. We do not publish horror.
Originals only, no reprints. We purchase first rights for inclusion in the ebook anthology for $25, with the additional rights to a print edition later which would also be paid $25 if a print edition happens. Authors retain the rights to the individual stories; Circlet exercises rights to the anthology as a whole.