ACES Anthology 2024 open to submissions
We are pleased to announce we are opening up to submissions for The ACES Anthology 2024. Submission guidelines are listed below.
Submission Guidelines
To avoid any suggestion of favoritism, we are accepting submissions on a first-come, first-served basis (with priority given to unpublished stories). We can't pay participants, but we'll be providing Stephen H. Provost's services as an editor and publisher free of charge. Participants will be able to order as many print copies as they want at my cost to give away or sell at your events, and any money made on Amazon will go toward the cost of maintaining the ACES website and any future ACES activities.
Short-story submissions will also be considered for the 2024 ACES High Award. Carson City author Michael K. Falciani (pictured) won the 2023 award, as determined by a panel of judges, for his short story “Shadow’s Edge.”
The target date for publication is November 1, 2024. The following parameters will be used in selecting stories for this volume:
Submissions are limited to authors participating in the ACES website initiative. (It's free to participate in ACES, which is open to all Northern Nevada writers.)
Stories submitted for this volume may be of any genre, except erotica.
Poetry may also be submitted, but will not be eligible for the ACES High Award.
Material expressly or implicitly advocating for violence or discrimination will not be considered. (Characters within stories may exhibit these behaviors/attitudes).
Stories should be between 1,000 and 8,000 words in length. The length of the completed volume will not exceed 90,000 words. Additional material beyond this limit and material submitted after the deadline may be considered for future volumes.
Submissions may be unpublished or previously published works. Any previously published works should have been either independently published or accompanied by a release from the original publisher authorizing its publication elsewhere. Previously unpublished works will be identified as such in the volume. Excerpts from longer works, such as a chapter from a book, will be considered IF they can stand on their own.
The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2024.
About the anthology
The volume will be published by Dragon Crown Books and will be edited and formatted by the Dragon Crown Books staff: publisher Stephen H. Provost and Chief Operating Officer Sharon Marie Provost.
Each item, when published, will be accompanied by a two-sentence bio on the author.
Each contributor will receive one free copy of the book and will be entitled to as many copies as requested at the publisher’s cost (printing plus shipping).
Any proceeds from Amazon sales of the book will go directly to the ACES initiative, specifically toward the annual cost of maintaining the website (currently $190) and website address (currently $24), and toward the cost of any ACES events, such as book signings, author fairs, etc.
Submissions should be sent via email to sharon.dragoncrown@gmail.com or the ACES website contact page: https://www.acesofnorthernnevada.com/new-page, with “Anthology submission” in the subject line.
Authors retain all rights to republish stories in the future in whatever form they see fit.
