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Call for Submissions -The Best Horror of the Year Volume 7
Call for Submissions
I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the seventh volume, which will include all material published in 2014. Reprints only.
I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark crime, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published in 2014. Submission deadline for stories is December 1st 2014. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late. For December publications, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. No email submissions unless you live outside the US. Authors should check that their publishers are sending review copies to me as I don’t have time or energy to nag publishers to get me material. I request it once (maybe twice) and that’s it.
There will be a summation of “the year in horror” in the front of the volume. This includes novels, nonfiction, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that I feel might interest the horror reader. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for submissions to this section is December 15th, 2014.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436
****I do not want manuscripts of stories from venues that it’s likely I already receive (like Interzone, Black Static, Crimewave, Cemetery Dance, Postscripts, F&SF and the other digests, etc) or from anthologies and collections, unless I don’t have or can’t get that anthology or collection. Again, please ask your publisher to send me the magazine or book. For online publications, please have your publishers send me email files of your stories. I will also accept printouts of stories produced and first “published” in 2014 as podcasts.
Please do not send an SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. For confirmation that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived.
If you have a question you can email me at datlow at yahoo dot com
thank you
Ellen
Best Horror #16: Call for Submissions 2023 publications only
Call for Submissions
I edit The Best Horror of the Year for (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the sixteenth volume, covering material published in 2023.
I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify.
This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2023. Deadline is December 1st 2023.
Authors please confirm that your publishers are sending me review copies. If a book or magazine is coming out after my deadline, I’ll look at galleys or manuscripts. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.
The only excuse is if you’re a foreign publisher and shipping everything at one time saves postage. If you want your work to get a fair read, do not do this.
I’ll look at e-versions of anthos and collections only if they’re navigable and have running heads. Otherwise, they won’t be read. I always prefer print, if available.
Authors can query as to whether I have/need your collection or an anthology/magazine in which you have a story at datlow@yahoo.com.
My summation of “the year in horror” includes novels, anthologies, collections, nonfiction, poetry, art books, and “odds and ends”– material that doesn’t fit elsewhere but that might interest horror readers.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen
8 Stuyvesant Oval 9G
NY NY 10009
I regularly cover most magazines/webzines that publish horror: F&SF, The Dark, Nightmare, Not One of Us, crime digests, Horrorzine, Uncanny, Apex-when their publishers send me the material. If you’re not sure, ask them first).
Please ask your publisher to send the entire magazine or anthology-unless the venue doesn’t regularly publish horror. In that case, you can send me a word file of your story. For online publications, email individual word doc files—not pdf files– include on the ms where and when the story has been published.
If I choose a story you will be informed. Otherwise, you will not hear back.
Ellen Datlow
www.datlow.com
2021 Eligibility post
Although I hate doing this, everyone seems to expect it these days. Here are the works I acquired/edited in 2021. Obviously all the authors of the original stories/novelettes/novella/collection are also eligible.
For Tor.com (online for free)
Shards by Ian Rogers is a horror novelette 9500 January 27 2021
Across the Dark Water by Richard Kadrey is an sf novelette 13,000 February 3, 2021
The Tyger by Tegan Moore is a horror story 6200 February 24 2021
Now We Paint Worlds by Matthew Kressel is a far future novelette 9200 July 7, 2021
Black Leg by Glen Hirshberg is dark fantasy 5200 July 14, 2021
L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a Dark fantasy 9200 August 25 2021
The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie by Kathleen Jennings is a dark fairy tale 1900 September 1 2021
A Better Way of Saying by Sarah Pinsker is a fantasy 6000 November 10 2021.
For Tor books:
Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes is a collection of stories and the title award-winning novella on Jewish/feminist/political themes by one of the brightest fantasists writing today. March 9, 2021
For Nightfire
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw is a horror novella 21,500 October 19 2021 Nightfire
Anthologies:
Tool Tales: Microfiction Inspired By Antique Tools Paperback (IFW International(– April 8, 2021 Multi-award winning creators Ellen Datlow and Kaaron Warren teamed up on Facebook a few years ago
when Ellen posted photos of antique tools and Kaaron wrote microfiction pieces to accompany them, without either of them knowing what the tools were for.
This chapbook collects and preserves their playful interaction for readers to enjoy.
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan) September 28
A collection of all new short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson.
Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers.
This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.
Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Cassandra Khaw, Karen Heuler, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, and Genevieve Valentine.
Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror (Tachyon) all reprints (October 19)
Twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including
Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen (Best Horror of the Year, 13) (Night Shade) November 16
Acquisitions/editing for 2019
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