***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Music themed Anthology Salvation in Stereo is open for submission
We’ve released three well received open submission anthologies so far, and we want to kick off 2023 with our most ambitious offering yet! Salvation in Stereo is intended to be an anthology centered around the theme of music, and more specifically about the music that unequivocally changed our lives.
The central ask is this:
Tell us about the music that saved your life. Give us all the gory details of the band or album or songs that held you together when it felt like nothing else in the world could. Tell us about the musician that gave you a reason to make your life stand for something. Tell us about the music that burrowed so deep within you that it disassembled your worldview and helped you begin to build a new one.
It doesn’t matter the musical genre or decade, we believe that music stretches across borders and imagined boundaries with a universal appeal that is expressed in a multitude of facets, and they’re all valid. We believe that music has power and is a force for change, and we want to celebrate the impact it has in our lives.
This new anthology will include the following:
- Short fiction
- Non-fiction (essay and blog/memoir style prose)
- Thematically relevant poetry
- Black and white art
This anthology is tentatively scheduled to be published in March 2023.
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions will be accepted between August 16th and December 31st 2022
- Submissions are work that is previously unpublished (preferably)
- Poetry – 5 pieces max per author
- Should be proofread and formatted as you’d like it to appear on the page
- Clearly titled, or if untitled then clearly noted break between pieces
- Submitted in .doc or .docx format
- Fiction – 1 piece, 15,000 words max
- Will consider multiple pieces by the same author as long as the total word count is not more than 15,000 words
- Submitted in .doc or .docx format
- Non-Fiction – 1 piece, 15,000 words max
- Will consider multiple pieces by the same author as long as the total word count is not more than 15,000 words
- Submitted in .doc or .docx format
- Art – Black and White
- Page size of the books is 5.5”x8.5” so the art should look good in that size
- No nudity
- Submitted in .jpg or .png format
For consideration, please send your submissions to neonsunrisepub@gmail.com with the subject – Anthology Submission-Salvation in Stereo
In your email, please include the following:
- Name
- Pen Name (if different)
- Email address
- Relevant Social Media accounts
- What you’re submitting (Poetry/Fiction/Non-Fiction/Art)
- For prose – a short blurb describing your submission
- Submission Attachment in the prescribed formats
Accepted submissions will receive additional details and an expected timeline of events related to the publication as well as compensation details.
We will use Kickstarter to fund costs related to the initial publication, and will expect all of the authors/artists that are accepted for the anthology to assist with promoting the campaign while it’s live.
All authors/artists will, at a minimum, receive copies of the anthology to sell on their own in whatever manner seems fitting to them.