Thursday, November 13, 2008

Call for Submissions: Werewolf Queer Fiction

This just in from the folks at Queered Fiction who are looking for a very specific kind of story:
Queer Wolf
A gay moon rising ...

An anthology of gay werewolf tales for publication early 2009.
QueeredFiction is looking for contemporary, urban fantasy set within a fictional city (unnamed and not location specific) centering on a community of gay werewolves. Your submission should be a short story between 4,000 and 10,000 words. We are seeking sensual fiction with positive images of gay characters. We're not looking for clichés.
We do not want horror or science fiction. We do not want reprints. We are seeking first world rights for this anthology which will be published as an ebook and/or potentially as a print softcover.

Your submission should be via email to editor@queeredfiction.com with Queer Wolf submission in the subject line. Please embed your short story within the body of the email and provide a brief author bio. Payment will be a 50% royalty split between contributors. Submission period closes 30th November 2008.

Editorial comment on Queer Wolf
What are we looking for? Aside from queer characters, queer community and queer relationships - we're looking for a great fantasy story about werewolves. Red ones, white ones, gray ones and black ones but most certainly queer ones - living together in a community. We'd like to see a community of gay and lesbian werewolves, a queer community background with the emphasis up to the author/story/characters as to whether there is a predominant lesbian or gay main character (or whether that role is dually shared by two).

As a queer publisher, QueeredFiction would like to have an emphasis on the queer community as a whole, rather than by segments. So ideally the perfect submission would have 'queer characters' in the forefront and in the background ... just mainly prominent!

About QueeredFiction
We are coming out from between the pages and delivering great queer genre fiction 2009!
QueeredFiction is a start up small press publisher that will focus on the Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual 'Genred' market. We will begin publishing in 2009, delivering Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror with strong Queer content, characters and genre elements most of all we intend publishing great QueeredFiction.

No one steps out of the closet in a day QueeredFiction is a new born queer small press publisher and we're making our first steps into the world to claim our own vibrant place in the genre GLB niche market. We intend to publish between four and eight titles in 2009, in both eBook and Paperback formats.

Any queries can be directed to info@queeredfiction.com for the attention of the publisher, or via the editor@queeredfiction.com for attention of the editor.

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