Call for Submissions: Ride 3 (anthology about bicycles | any genre | paying market | worldwide)

27 March 2013
Call for Submissions: Ride 3 (anthology about bicycles | any genre | paying market | worldwide)
Deadline: 31 August 2013

RIDE 3 will be published in print, as well as Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Kobo, and whatever other format seems like a good idea. The only requirement is that a bicycle or bicycle subculture must feature prominently in the story.

Any genre, any gender, any length up to about 12,000 words, any setting, any time period, any kind of cycling. The more diversity—of locations, cycling cultures, story genres—the better. The best eight or ten stories or poems will be published.

LENGTH: Anything up to around 12,000 words will be considered. However, it’s easier to take a chance on shorter work—so if you haven’t published much, your odds are probably better with flash fiction than with a multilayered epic.

EDITING: If the material can't be improved, no notes will be given.

PAYMENT: $75 above 4,000 words; $50 for 2,000-3,999 words; $20 for 1-1,999 words.

PUBLICITY: Please be up for minor publicity stuff, which shouldn’t involve more work than suggesting places where review copies can be sent and participating in the recent “Three Questions” series at the blog.

DETAILS: Previously published is OK; previously unpublished is OK-plus. World rights must be available. If it’s at your blog, take all but a few teaser paragraphs down when the book goes on sale. Fiction and poetry only; no essays, no travelogues. Submit in Word or RTF, using standard manuscript formatting (Courier 12-point, double-spaced, 1″ margins all around).

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: noteon@mac.com

Website: http://ridebikefiction.wordpress.com
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