Call for submissions: Femme Fatale issue at SNM Horror Magazine

These are the general submissions guidelines you need to know first.

*REGULAR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
HEED THE SNM OVERLORDS!

No racial or religious slurs, no explicit rape, no excessive violence or vulgarity, no blatant animal or child abuse. We are not accepting fan-fiction, Sci-Fi, fantasy or mystery, thriller or detective stuff, just well-written horror stories! However we are also avid lovers of the dark fiction genre. Reprints must have rights reverted back to the writer and stories must be over ONE YEAR from its last publication.

You do not need a cover letter and we will ask you for promo material upon publication. Just get in solely on the merits of your writing and send us your best unpublished works We are looking for original, new voices and are open to all realms of horror, especially if it is well-written. We do prefer cerebral, suggestive horror over blood, splatter and gore. We may need to edit it to fit the size and format of the mag and will correct misspellings, punctuation, grammar, or obvious mistakes and send it back for your approval. We are looking for rated R type of horror with a good plot, characters, dimension and a wicked twist surprise ending! As long as it's not purely self-indulgent blood depravities. We tend to publish what most mags do not!

*We will let you know either way if we will publish your story. Please allow (4) weeks for a response before sending queries. We accept submissions all year around but review 40 days out. *We accept first, second and third-person stories, but it's very rare that we accept present tense subs. Keep them past tense!

*Here is the criteria for submissions. *Please review carefully!

(Only "Submission received" replies will be read and critiqued.)

Word Count: 2,000-5,000 per story. Single line spacing.

14 type, justified setting and ONE space after the period.

All the rest: use whatever font or indents you usually use


Pen Name, address, e-mail and the word count of story.

Subject: SNM Submission (Month you are submitting for)

*Please direct submissions here, up to (2) per month:

snmeditor@yahoo.com

Contest Months: February, April, June, August, Oct & Dec 2010.

Deadlines: The 20th of each month for the following month.

Withdrawals: Must be e-mailed by the 20th of each month.

Format: MS Word, RTF or text file. NO PDFs or screen shots.


Payments: See contest, anthology and awards below.

Darkest Wishes,

SNM HORROR STAFF:
STEVEN, DAVID, LILITH, THERESA & CRYSTAL

NOW OPEN FOR YEAR ROUND THEME SUBS
Please read before submitting:

It's the February Femme Fatale Issue of SNM Mag!!! *New and previously published SNM authors may submit.

For this issue, we are looking for stories of dark erotica, jealousy, obsessive or fatal attraction and love gone sour. Sex can be detailed, but not overbearing all throughout. Here's the catch: while both male and female authors are welcomed to submit, your main character must be female and a believable femme fatale. As always we want scary, realistic and supernatural ones. 2,500-5,000 words here. She must either kill or be killed and be a crazed psycho!

1st Place - $30 + Lead Story for BBB III Anthology.

2nd Place - $20 Spot for BBB III Antho + Interview.

3rd Place - Free Copy of BBB II + Top 3 billing.

*All 3 spots will have a top billing on the homepage!

*Top 2 Stories of the Month will be featured in BBB III.

*Please see above general guidelines before submitting.

Dream dark, be unique, write brilliant!

*THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FEBRUARY 1ST.

Deadline for Submissions: January 20th, Midnight Est.

As always, check out in its entirety the publisher's submission page before submitting for all rules pertaining to this.

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