Call for Submissions:“Of Poets, Spies and the Unearthliness– Otherworldly Tales in the Times of Shakespeare and Marlowe
Posted: January 17, 2022, 03:50:43 AM
For Your knowledge, in case You are interested… 
Call for Horror/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Submissions…
“Of Poets, Spies and the Unearthliness –
Otherworldly Tales in the Times of Shakespeare and Marlowe”
A Horror/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Anthology
Deadline: until full (probably within the end of this Summer…)
Payment:Exposure and Royalties
Short stories up to 7,000 words; Longer stories will also be considered.
Reprints: just in some restricted, limited cases, as long as you hold the rights.
“The Tudor period in England is commonly depicted by historians as the golden age in English history. This golden age represented one of the highest points of the English Renaissance and saw poetry, drama, music and literature rise to unprecedented heights. During those years such writers as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, Roger Ascham, John Florio, Ben Jonson, George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe and Thomas Kyd became very famous, and highly reputed.
Now, think about what we know of those years, and of what we still don’t know, things that possibly happened, or didn’t ever occur in the dim lights of the most forgotten dusty streets at night, or in theatres, in the field of the otherworldly realms that at times border on our reality. Then, think of scary stories, weird or horrible occurrences in the crowded cities of the Renaissance: fairytale creatures, ghosts and monsters that also appeared in literary texts from those years. Think about the pirates authorized by their governments that chanced upon new fabled territories while exploring the seas and found strange beings, spies who investigated on some unexpected matters that were not of this world, or even unknown or fictitious tragedy plays that never got published, or were never produced for the stage, anyway, for one reason or another, in the late 1500s or early 1600s in England and throughout the rest of Europe. Then also think of those playwrights who achieved great renown, and of others whose names are now forgotten, maybe for unnatural reasons, or just because of some unearthly facts, as what fed their success later destroyed them…
Think, for example, of: a werewolf seen in a dark muddy street in Shakespearean Stratford-upon-Avon that was following a certain playwright since he was a child. Or consider a bloody, mythical being living around Canterbury’s waterways at the time of young Marlowe...and even think of dark fairies living in the woods that made up most of the countryside of England, Scotland and Wales at that time…”
Think, to make an example, as a reference of movies like Anonymous and Shakespeare in love, or TV series like Will and the Second Season of A Discovery of Witches but with a darker setting, and a sort of horror theme, and you'll get the pictures of the short-stories that will be available/accepted here...
Submission guidelines: Please include your name, address, e-mail address, the title of your story and its word count in your covering e-mail. Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf or *.doc file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact us prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.)
Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please indent the first line of each paragraph half an inch. The page margin should be set to one inch on all sides.
No headers, footers or page numbers.
Please check spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Upon acceptance into the Anthology, we ask that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for one year from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted Anthology.
This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.
Sergio “ente per ente” Palumbo and Curtis Manges will be presiding over this Anthology as Editors.
The title will be published by Rogue Planet Press, an Imprint of Horrified Press, under the supervision of Gavin Chappell.
Email your submission as an attachment to: associazione (AT) lacenturia.it
The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION — Of Poets, Spies and the Unearthliness – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this Anthology.
Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired, or as soon as possible.
Cover ( and Back-cover) Art: by American artist John “DavidsonHero” Rose.
There may well be some beautiful Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror themed black and white illustrations lurking on the inside as well, art by comics artists Davide “Atog” Marescotti and Sara Dellacasa.
Here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/RoguePlanetPress/posts/
https://www.facebook.com/RoguePlanetPress/posts/4160189177414514?__tn__=K-R
And there's also an image by Sara Dellacasa, that will be included in the book, to promote the Anthology, of course...
Waiting for the best-ever-entries, of course!!!
Call for Horror/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Submissions…
“Of Poets, Spies and the Unearthliness –
Otherworldly Tales in the Times of Shakespeare and Marlowe”
A Horror/Fantasy/Sci-Fi Anthology
Deadline: until full (probably within the end of this Summer…)
Payment:Exposure and Royalties
Short stories up to 7,000 words; Longer stories will also be considered.
Reprints: just in some restricted, limited cases, as long as you hold the rights.
“The Tudor period in England is commonly depicted by historians as the golden age in English history. This golden age represented one of the highest points of the English Renaissance and saw poetry, drama, music and literature rise to unprecedented heights. During those years such writers as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, Roger Ascham, John Florio, Ben Jonson, George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe and Thomas Kyd became very famous, and highly reputed.
Now, think about what we know of those years, and of what we still don’t know, things that possibly happened, or didn’t ever occur in the dim lights of the most forgotten dusty streets at night, or in theatres, in the field of the otherworldly realms that at times border on our reality. Then, think of scary stories, weird or horrible occurrences in the crowded cities of the Renaissance: fairytale creatures, ghosts and monsters that also appeared in literary texts from those years. Think about the pirates authorized by their governments that chanced upon new fabled territories while exploring the seas and found strange beings, spies who investigated on some unexpected matters that were not of this world, or even unknown or fictitious tragedy plays that never got published, or were never produced for the stage, anyway, for one reason or another, in the late 1500s or early 1600s in England and throughout the rest of Europe. Then also think of those playwrights who achieved great renown, and of others whose names are now forgotten, maybe for unnatural reasons, or just because of some unearthly facts, as what fed their success later destroyed them…
Think, for example, of: a werewolf seen in a dark muddy street in Shakespearean Stratford-upon-Avon that was following a certain playwright since he was a child. Or consider a bloody, mythical being living around Canterbury’s waterways at the time of young Marlowe...and even think of dark fairies living in the woods that made up most of the countryside of England, Scotland and Wales at that time…”
Think, to make an example, as a reference of movies like Anonymous and Shakespeare in love, or TV series like Will and the Second Season of A Discovery of Witches but with a darker setting, and a sort of horror theme, and you'll get the pictures of the short-stories that will be available/accepted here...
Submission guidelines: Please include your name, address, e-mail address, the title of your story and its word count in your covering e-mail. Please submit your manuscript as a *.rtf or *.doc file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact us prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.)
Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please indent the first line of each paragraph half an inch. The page margin should be set to one inch on all sides.
No headers, footers or page numbers.
Please check spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Upon acceptance into the Anthology, we ask that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for one year from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted Anthology.
This title will be available as an e-book and trade quality paperback.
Sergio “ente per ente” Palumbo and Curtis Manges will be presiding over this Anthology as Editors.
The title will be published by Rogue Planet Press, an Imprint of Horrified Press, under the supervision of Gavin Chappell.
Email your submission as an attachment to: associazione (AT) lacenturia.it
The email subject line must read “SUBMISSION — Of Poets, Spies and the Unearthliness – ‘your story title’” or your submission will not be considered for this Anthology.
Successful applicants will be notified before the deadline has expired, or as soon as possible.
Cover ( and Back-cover) Art: by American artist John “DavidsonHero” Rose.
There may well be some beautiful Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror themed black and white illustrations lurking on the inside as well, art by comics artists Davide “Atog” Marescotti and Sara Dellacasa.
Here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/RoguePlanetPress/posts/
https://www.facebook.com/RoguePlanetPress/posts/4160189177414514?__tn__=K-R
And there's also an image by Sara Dellacasa, that will be included in the book, to promote the Anthology, of course...
Waiting for the best-ever-entries, of course!!!
