Submit to One-Time Anthologies & Special Projects
Fiction Only
Maintain the North: An Epic Mountie Adventure Anthology
Whether you’re a firm believer that a Mountie always gets his man, can’t resist Canadian politeness, or simply grew up with adventure books, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted, Nelson Eddy, or Due South, we want your fiction, slashfic, fanfic, histfic, pulp, and adventure stories for an anthology about the epic mythology and folklore of the Mounties.
Payment is $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: May 1, 2023
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024-2026
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Flash Flood: A Climate-Fiction Micro/Flash Anthology
We’re seeking fiction of 600-ish words or fewer with a climate bent. Looking for cli-fi, environmental fiction, science fiction, apocalyptic fiction, or hybrid that deals with climate change, climate crises, manmade ecological disasters, or environmental issues in flash or microfiction.
Payment is $10 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024-2025
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Nonfiction Only
Bottomland: Essays on Being LGBTQ+ in the Deep South
We are seeking creative nonfiction and personal essays on the experience of being LGBTQ+ in the Deep South. We want funny pieces, happy pieces, and pieces that tear us apart. We want urban and rural. We want true experiences that help us step inside your world. Through the stories of our lives, we can teach others compassion, tolerance, and humanity. That’s what we’re seeking.
Payment is $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024/2025
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Riding Fences: Essays on Being LGBTQ+ in Rural Areas
We are seeking creative nonfiction and personal essays on the experience of being LGBTQ+ in rural areas. We want funny pieces, happy pieces, and pieces that tear us apart. We want an emphasis on the rural. We want true experiences that help us step inside your world. Through the stories of our lives, we can teach others compassion, tolerance, and humanity. That’s what we’re seeking.
Payment is $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024/2025
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HIV AIDS in the Decades After: Writers in the Aftermath of a Taboo Epidemic
We’re seeking creative nonfiction and personal essays on the experience of going through the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the 80s, 90s, and early aughts. We want to capture the terrifying time. We want funny pieces, uplifting pieces, and pieces that tear us apart, from those who went through the epidemic themselves or helped loved ones during it. Through the stories of our lives, we can teach others compassion, tolerance, humanity, and history. That’s what we’re seeking.
Payment is $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2025/2026
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Stay: Letters to an At-Risk World
We’re seeking creative nonfiction, personal essays, and letters aimed at helping suicidal, depressed, or at-risk individuals feel better about themselves and their situations and to feel like they are not alone. We’re looking for hope, inspiration, empathy, uplifting messages, light humor, and ways to reach out and help people feel okay. No bad endings, no religion or spirituality, but a book someone might turn to in his darkest hour and find another way forward.
Payment is $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2025/2026
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Poetry Only
We’ve Always Done It: Poems about Wartime Women
We’re seeking poetry about women during times of war, from ancient wars to the War of the Roses to every war of independence to Rosie the Riveter to Afghanistan. Poems should touch on the historical or the personal, whether about a public figure or your own sister, mother, wife, or daughter, and that woman’s wartime role, whether as a spectator watching soldiers tear through her crops, as a war nurse patching eyes and limbs, as a fighter, or as a peacemaker trying to stop the fighting.
Payment is $10 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024
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Mixed Styles
How to Hang the Hat: Storytellers on Sondheim: Writers on the Broadway Legend & the End of a Golden Era
The theater world lost a titan on November 26, 2021, and we’re coping the only way we know how: an anthology of tributes and words about the legend that was the incomparable, irreplaceable Stephen Sondheim. If you were formed into a human by the man who changed American musical theater forever, then we want to read your words. All styles welcome.
Payment is $10 to $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024/2025
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Hear & Now: An Anthology on Deafness
We’re seeking poetry, fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction that touches on D/deafness in some way (however slight) that is WRITTEN BY D/deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. The genre and style is purposely left very open, so D/deaf and hard-of-hearing writers can bend the theme to mean what they want it to mean for their own purposes.
Payment is $10 to $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024/2025
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Mother Goose Is Sometimes a Father and Sometimes Both: Fairytales, Fables, Nursery Rhymes, and Children’s Stories for Raising Good Little Boys in the Era of Toxic Masculinity
In the age of toxic masculinity, how do we teach people to be kinder, more inclusive, more tolerant, more empathetic? Much of it starts with what we teach our little boys about being men. We want your fairytales, fables, children’s stories, nursery rhymes, or epic rhyming stories (or storytelling rhymes) that are aimed at making our little boys better.
Payment is $10 to $20 and publication in the anthology published by Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram and all major online retailers.
Submissions open: SOON
Submissions close: NO DATE YET
Pieces selected: Within 4 months
Publication: 2024-2026
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