Apex Publications will be publishing a follow-up to the Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Black Quill nominated anthology, Dark Faith. The book will be 80,000 words and pay five cents a word (up to four thousand words). It will debut late-summer 2012. We buy First World anthology print rights and digital rights (for three years).
Everyone believes in something and we want you to put those beliefs to the test. We’re looking for the story only you could write, something deeply personal and at the same time universal. We’re looking for smart, literate stories that don’t proselytize or stereotype. Stories that make you think, that comment on the human condition and the social order. Stories that are rich in their use of language.
However, as much as we love social commentary, don’t forget to entertain us. The best way to get a feel for what we’re looking for is to read Dark Faith.
Submissions will be accepted from 1/1/2012 until 1/31/2012. Unsolicited stories received outside this time frame will be deleted unread.
Please include a cover letter with your submission (even if we know you). Please send no more than one submission at a time. No reprints. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted as long as you tell us up front (and immediately withdraw the story if you sell it).
All submissions must be emailed as an RTF file to Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon at darkfaithantho@gmail.com
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Here’s how I described the first go around on John Scalzi’s Whatever:
Click here to find some of the reviews of first one.
Firstly, congratulations on setting up a second anthology. The original Dark Faith was a crackling book.
You’re paying pro-rate for up to 4,000 words; any idea yet on the word limit for stories, though? Will it be a hard 4,000?
thanks!
it’s not a hard 4,000 words story limit, but it is a hard 80,000 words anthology limit. stories going over 4,000 have to be that much more spectacular to justify taking up that much “real estate”. so we always recommend going shorter with stories.
So.. are you considering stories from Lokeans??
And how about poetry? Sure the last one had a couple of poems in it!!
This is strictly a call for stories. The poems in the first book were a solicited thing. I have a few solicited surprises for the second volume.
Ah.. you’re so picky, picky about those non-solicited submissions!
(And you never answered the *previous* question – like, would you consider submissions from a Lokean/s? Or, in all honesty, *are* there some religions/believers who are excluded from this anthology? (I feel a teeny bit, actually, as I imagine a black sci fi writer may have in say the 50s, quizzing.. would s/he have dared, a “liberal” magazine editor, who put out a call saying he was looking for stories from people of “unusual cultural backgrounds” – or something! :s ))
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