Furry Writers' Guild Forum

Calls for submissions

I wonder if Fuzz or Ashe realize that nowhere in the FANG description does it mention that it’s an erotic anthology…

Oh! Very True! The FWG section says [tt]Needs: Furry erotica on the theme “Lucky 7s – Vegas Through Time”[/tt] but not official page

It says M/M adult story anthology.

OOOPS! There it is in red.
Sorry, but I missed it too.

I don’t see the text in red, but I see it in the main post now.

Thought this might be of interest:

http://wolfsingerpubs.com/LightGuidelines.html

Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Empire into victory…

Mara Jade fights first for the Empire and then for the New Republic struggling against the past and using her talents with
the Force to fight for what she believes is right…

Katniss Everdeen offers herself up for the gladatorial Hunger Games instead of her little sister, who she fears would not
survive…

When felinoid alien, Pianfar Chanur, runs across a “human” alien, it is only the pride that keeps her from returning him to
his captors…

Fleet Lieutenant Esmay Suiza must face the truth of her background simultaneously with the threat of alien invasion…

We never tire of reading about these amazing heroines and their exploits, but have you considered writing a science fiction
story of your own about a heroine or perhaps a female-dominated society? Here’s your chance.

We are looking for stories primarily about women from female-dominated societies (Gate to Women’s Country, The Shore
of Women…) to powerful female heroines such as the ones listed above. We’re interested in science fiction, futuristic
magic use (think Star Wars), grand adventures with swashbuckling heroines, and touching tales.

Whether they are from a matriarchal or Amazon-style society or traditional male-dominated world, bring us powerful
women and their stories.

I’d never heard of the Chanur series. Huh.

Furries are surreal and fantastic. Let’s jump on this.

“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.”

― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

Speculative + literary fiction of excellent quality, in terms of craft, are welcome.

Please submit only one proof-read story at a time.
Pieces may be up to 5000 words in length, double spaced.
Use a serif font.

Please do pay attention to the theme and aesthetic direction for this upcoming issue when submitting. Our theme is the Surreal and Fantastical, and may include fairy tales retold, magical realism, zombies, vampires, robots, science fiction, and anything else you can think of.

We are eager to read your individual take on our theme. We are looking for a compelling voice, self-awareness & clear decision-making regarding structure and tone.

     

A couple more WolfSinger anthologies that may be of interest:

http://wolfsingerpubs.com/ConsequencesGuidelines.html

What we’re looking for are speculative fiction stories involving the creation, manufacture, release etc. of some new technology (or magic) that is supposed to do one thing and later on down the road some unintended consequence is discovered. It can be product that is supposed to be ‘good’ but has a bad consequence or just has something different happen as well. Conversely, you can have something that is supposed to be dangerous or ‘evil’ and have it develop a ‘good’ consequence.

http://wolfsingerpubs.com/PerspectiveGuidelines.html

Authors – here’s your chance to tell BOTH sides of a story. What we are looking for are speculative fiction stories that tell a story that when told from one perspective come across in favor of one narrative and when told from another perspective comes across in favor of another narrative. Watching a video of police interaction with someone that erupts into violence and someone being injured or killed. That part can be easy (depending on the narrative you want to support) - Now the hard part. Retell that story from another perspective – but it has to take the reader in the complete opposite direction and it has to ring true to the facts that would be KNOWN by the viewpoint character. Using the ‘police’ video for example – write one story showing the officer used excessive force, was targeting specific individuals, etc. Now for the second one – write a story again using the video as the basis and write it so the officer is 100 percent justified in their actions. It can all be a matter of perspective and having access to different sets of facts.

BOTH stories must be realistic and ring 100 percent true to the reader as they read.

Not specifically a furry press, but would be open to stories with furry/anthropomorphic elements.

Lethe Press, publishers of LGBT+ friendly anthologies has a call out for Three Anthologies, two of which are willing to accept reprints, which we all like to hear.

http://www.lethepressbooks.com/call-for-submissions.html

[ul][li]WILDE STORIES is seeking gay male-themed short fiction published in 2015 that has elements of the fantastical, the strange, the horrific, the weird to reprint in Wilde Stories 2016. Science-fiction? Great. Bizarro? Lovely. I am going to assume Furry can fit in somewhere between the fantastical and the weird. No deadline info yet. [/li]
[li]TRANSCENDENT is seeking short, speculative fiction published in 2015 that features transgender characters, including but not limited to those who identify as genderqueer, transfeminine, transmasculine, non-binary, two-spirit, FTM, MTF, agender, intersex, bigender, genderfluid, third gender, and others, with a special note that there is no one way to be transgender with regards to medical, social, and personal transition status. Furry can fit in there often with a good TF story but in other ways as well. Deadline last day of March with a planned release date of in the summer of 2016 [/li][/ul]

They aren’t actively seeking Furry stories mind you, but if you wrote and sold a great story in 2015, here’s you rare chance to sell it again.

I’ll be submitting Brooklyn Blackie and the Unappetizing Menu to Wilde Stories.

Good find! Thanks.

Zoomorphic is seeking “submissions of work from writers of fiction, creative non-fiction, science or conservation journalism and poetry that celebrates and defends the animal world.” Non-paying, and maybe not a good fit for typical furry/genre work, but if you have something more toward the literary end of the spectrum, or animal-related poetry, might be worth a try.

Full guidelines:

Reply to #146: C. J. Cherryh’s 1982-1992 five Chanur novels featuring a clan of leonine alien space merchants is a “furry favorite”. The first, “The Pride of Chanur”, won an ALAA Hall of Fame Award.

[i]Broken Bones & Ten Dollar Bills[/i] is an anthology of science fiction stories that explore our relationship with body altering technology, be that genetics or other techs. We want to see stories that explore our relationship with technology but also those people who traffic in these goods, those scientists who invent them and the corporations who profit from our awkwardness about being embodied.

Conbook listings now updated on the site, with deadlines through May 1:

http://furrywritersguild.com/non-paying-markets/convention-books/

Just a note that they’ve updated the page, and the dragon anthology is no longer listed. (Odd that they erased it entirely, since they do have at least one antho listed as “cancelled.”)

Just ran across this FA page mentioning a furry anthology called The Society Pages, slated for September, reading from May 1 - June 30:

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/scratchpostpress/

Their main website: http://www.scratchpostpress.com/

Submission guidelines: http://www.scratchpostpress.com/calls-for-submissions/

You have to submit a query (pitch, outline, or synopsis), which is kind of odd for an anthology instead of just taking the full manuscript up front, but it is a paying market. (Based out of Australia, at least according to the location on their Twitter account.)

This looks a LOT like an anthology to push at people who want more things like Zootopia :slight_smile:

it looks like it’s just one person running the entire thing too.