Future New Smut Project Submission Calls
I’ve hit the point where the building pressure of NSP Anthology Ideas is almost too much to bear, so I’ve made a cautious update about future submissions, which I’m cross-posting here:
The next submission calls will go out as soon as the editorial team is able to finish getting our proverbial ducks in a row (financing, time to read submissions, etc). While we wrangle waterfowl, here are some hints about the likely themes of our next anthologies:
- A sequel to Erato, collecting erotic flash fiction, microfiction, and prose poems
- An anthology celebrating new scripts beyond mainstream culture’s narrow definition of what counts as “sex”
- A book of verse poetry (which we do not publish in our other anthologies, though we share it here on our blog for inspiration)
Reading posts on this blog and checking out the awesome stories we’ve released in previous collections can give you a feeling for what we publish* – not to mention spark some thoughts and pleasure to pass the time as you wait for our next call ;D.
*At the same time, we’re often delighted to discover completely new ideas in our submissions, and we actively want to expand the range of identities and perspectives we publish in our anthologies.
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This is not a call for submissions yet, but more a “if you want to write for future submissions calls, here are the kinds of things you might want to start brainstorming/drafting.”
Having done the accounting for sales and royalties to date, I’m delighted to see we’ve pretty much secured funding (especially given we’ll sell more books between now and the next anthologies! By the way, do you have anyone on your holiday gift-giving list who would enjoy collections of groundbreaking smut?)
So now it’s the time factor – to write and promote the submissions call, read submitted stories, and then edit the accepted stories. Since I have several book-length manuscripts to edit as part of my freelance day job, this won’t happen right away. I also need to update my promotion plans. I thought I’d developed some better ideas for sharing calls on Twitter, but…well, we’ll see where that is in a month or two when I’m ready to actually do it.
But sharing on this blog may be a good first step. Here’s a 2023 resolution for erotic short story writers and poets: sell me your smut! And let the erotic writers and poets in your life know about these upcoming opportunities.
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