Call For Submissions
The Flesh Made Word: Erotic Tales About Writing
Edited by Bernie Mojzes
Publisher: Circlet Press
Deadline: March 1, 2013
Payment: $.01/word up to $25
In the age of communication where words are cheap, easy, and disposable its easy to forget the sheer physicality of the written word. The inscription, through will and intention, through the press and flow of pen and ink expressing what’s hidden within ourselves upon a surface that is transformed through the process: what is more intimate than that?
The Flesh Made Word is an erotic anthology about the act of writing, and of being written upon. Old typewriters, the tattooists pen, the press of fountain-pen nib to flesh. The sensuality of the words themselves, both the sound and the shape of them. The clack of typewriter keys and the shuffle-clank of the printing press. The intersection of the expression of the idea and the physicality of the body. The transformation or transcendence of the flesh through written language.
I am looking for strong, edgy stories that don’t exist merely as an excuse for a great sex scene. Send me stories that take me to surprising places, and stories that don’t flinch.
While this anthology is expected to be primarily comprised of Science Fiction & Fantasy, it is open to (almost) all genres, including Mystery, Adventure, Western, Mainstream and the ever-popular-though-always-misunderstood Slipstream.
More details:
Length: Up to 8000 words.
Pay: $.01/word up to $25.
Response Time: 1 month. Please query if you do not receive an acknowledgement within 3 days.
How to submit: Send your stories in .doc or .rtf format to fmw-subs@kappamaki.com. Please don’t send in .docx format, and please use a reasonable font and follow something that looks reasonably like Standard Manuscript Format.
About the editor: Bernie Mojzes is a writer of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, with occasional deviations into mainstream fiction. His stories appeared in as divergent markets as Daily Science Fiction and Circlet Presss Whispers in Darkness. He also co-edits the Journal of Unlikely Entomology. That’s probably a good place to look to get a feel for his editorial aesthetic.
For more details and general Circlet Press guidelines, please visit
http://www.circlet.com/?p=4395
