The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013
Over the past few days I have sent out emails to established antipodean horror writers who are conspicuously missing from my reading pile for volume five of ‘The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror’ – in addition to contacting emerging writers in the field. For those writers who do not have a “contact form” on their website, I have supplemented this effort with messages via Facebook – if you have newly received a “friend request” from me, may I suggest you look in your “other” folder for the low-down on anthology submissions.
If you fit either description (established or emerging horror writer) and you have not received an email or message via Facebook, by all means click through to the Submission Guidelines below, and send your work in before I finalise my shortlist. If you have a writer buddy you believe I may not be aware of, encourage them to get in touch.
Fiction writers are by nature preoccupied with the numinous and unseen. Life gets busy. People forget. Ideally all eligible writers would get their work in well in advance of the deadline, but I understand. Please get those stories submitted while it is still possible.
Those who didn’t publish horror short stories that fit the 2014 guidelines, take this opportunity to compile your horror publishing news for the year, and get the best possible coverage of your publishing journey in ‘The Year In Horror’ essay.