Fiction Submissions

Our Kickstarter is LIVE, and we aim to publish as many of these stories as possible:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/connectionsanthology/where-connections-lead-anthology/description

Confirmed contributors include:
Rising star of horror! Mia Dalia is an internationally published, CWA-nominated author of all things fantastic, thrilling, scary, and strange. Our favorite title is "The Muffin Man" Repped by Curtis Brown, we are excited to be part of this rising star's journey!! daliaverse.wixsite.com/author
Co-founder of @swsworlds.bsky.social Anne Nydam has an undergraduate degree in linguistics, is Poet Laureate of Needham, MA. Her most recent books are Bittersweetness & Light and On the Virtues of Beasts of the Realms of Imagination! www.nydamprints.com
Colin Bell is a Producer-director of arts documentaries and then Executive Producer, Music and Arts, he has made arts programmes for ITV, BBC, Channel Four, and for broadcasters in the USA, Japan and Germany. (We also know him as Wolfie!)
Creativity for days in the writing of Richard Oyama, who has a M.A. in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Oyama taught at California College of Arts in Oakland, University of California at Berkeley and University of New Mexico. www.pw.org/directory/wr...

​Delight to work with, Rakha Valliappan is an award-winning multi-genre writer of short stories and poems. Her literary and genre fiction have featured in various journals and anthologies. www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Editor of horror, Glenn Owen Barrass lives in the North East of England and have been writing since late 2006. He's written over two hundred short stories, novellas, & role-playing game supplements, the majority of which have been published in Japan, UK, and USA. strangeraeons.godaddysites.com

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Leoma Ratan @leomaretan-author.bsky.social

is an engineer, writer, and pet mommy to one dog and twenty barn cats. Her writing has appeared in several magazines and anthologies. www.leomaretan.com

Erick Behar was born in Bogotá in 1986 and grew up in Beavercreek, Ohio. He is a professor of economics at a private university in Berlin, Germany. He has written two novels and is passionate about psychology through storytelling, as well as languages. www.erickbehar.com

Shannon Frost Greenstein @shannonfrostgre.bsky.socialresides near Philadelphia with her family ancats, a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. shannonfrostgreenstein.com

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 Compensation: $50 per story following a successful Kickstarter. 50% of proceeds will support online platforms supporting disabled writers.
Support for Emerging Writers: We offer editorial help to bring accepted stories up to publication standard. 

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Copyright Notice for "Where Connections Lead" Anthology: If submission is accepted for publication, the anthology holds world English rights for first publication in both ebook and print formats. These rights apply exclusively from the anthology's release date for a period of one year. After this exclusivity period, authors are free to publish or reprint their stories elsewhere, while the anthology retains non-exclusive rights to continue distributing the story in the original anthology format.

Exceptions may be made for calls specifically requesting reprints of stories first published in 2025; please contact us if such an opportunity arises within the exclusivity period.

Submissions Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0UpL3JxM1o